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Published 10 Sept 2026, 10:30 BST
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Better Care Fund VCSE Integrated Wellbeing Pathways SC, HI & W/2025/93

Local Council
services
SME eligible
VCSE eligible
Above threshold
Special Regime: {"lightTouch"}
Social services
Published value
£0
Contract value exc. VAT
Submission deadline
Pipeline stage
planning
Lots published
1
Lots published in procedure
Contract duration
3 yrs (with extension options)
Starts 1 Jul 2027, 00:00 BST
Electronic Sourcing Gateway:
Published portal

What is being bought & procurement scope

Procurement Scope & Specification
Tenderline summary generated from the published notice
Executive Summary: Stoke on Trent City Council: "Better Care Fund VCSE Integrated Wellbeing Pathways SC, HI & W/2025/93". Published status: planning. Published value: £0. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Official Requirement Description:
This notice has been removed, due to a change in direction. An updated notice will be made in due course

Lots and requirements (1)

Procurement Structure
Published by the contracting authority
  • Lot 1 · #1
    Individual lot title not published
    planning
    Renewal
    Published valueNot published
    The source published no individual title or description for this lot.
    Contract period:
    1 Jul 2027 — 30 Jun 2030 (3 yrs)
    Eligibility:
    SME eligible
    VCSE eligible
    Options / extension:
    Renewal options

Qualification snapshot & criteria

Go / No-Go Decision Box
Criteria & entry requirements
Evaluation weighting
Award criteria weighting not published in structured data — consult the tender pack documents.
Incumbent & Market Position
Top Retained Vendor (Authority Spend)Reed WellbeingHolds 34.9% of historical attributable spend
Moderate Concentration
Entry requirements & qualification
  • Turnover Benchmark
    Guideline requirement: ~2× annual contract value annual turnover.Per Cabinet Office EFS 2026 & Sourcing Playbook: general proportionality cap (~2× run-rate), not an automatic disqualifier.
  • Insurance Commitments (No Upfront Purchase Needed)
    Standard public thresholds: Employer Liability (£5m), Public Liability (£5m-£10m), Professional Indemnity (£1m-£5m).✓ Commitment required upon award only — no upfront policy purchase needed to bid
  • Accreditations & Security Vetting
    Check tender pack for Cyber Essentials Plus (PPN 014 risk-proportional), ISO 27001/9001, and BPSS / SC security clearance requirements for named delivery personnel.
  • Contract Duration & Term OptionsExpected duration: 3 yrs (with extension options)
  • Source: Cabinet Office Sourcing Playbook & EFS Guidance.

    Buyer track record & authority intelligence: Stoke on Trent City Council

    Rolling 24 months
    Derived from OCDS data
    Published track record for Stoke on Trent City Council. These figures describe a rolling 24-month window, not a forecast of bids or a measure of buyer bias.
    Avg price drop
    20%Indicative
    Based on 1 comparable award · indicative evidence
    Competition Density
    3Bids / Report (median)
    Single-bidder rate: 31.3% · Mean: 4.1 bids
    Supplier Concentration
    Moderate Concentration
    Reed WellbeingTop vendor: 34.9% of attributable value
    Published spend
    £10,609,368Historical spend
    Cumulative GBP spend across 50 retained awards
    Typical award value
    £10,000Robust (n=50)
    Middle 50% of awards: £10,000 – £76,422
    Awarded spend by half-year
    2024-H2
    2025-H1
    2025-H2
    2026-H1
    2026-H2
    Methodology & coverage notes (50 active published awards)
    Coverage: 50 active published awards; 16 bid reports (which may be per lot); 50 valued awards. Supplier values exclude multi-supplier awards, frameworks and DPS, and use GBP only. They are published award values, not payments. Published-to-award variance compares single-lot, single-award, single-supplier GBP procedures with explicitly non-framework/non-DPS status; increases remain in the average. Every figure carries an evidence level: Robust (5+ observations), Moderate (3–4), Indicative (1–2). Unpublished data stays unknown. Awarded suppliers are winners, not all bidders.
    Historical Awarded Suppliers in this Category (CPV 85):
    Supplier Name
    Historic Awards
    Attributable Value
    Avg. Price Discount
    Reed Wellbeing1 win£3,700,270No published budget
    The Growth Company Limited1 win£2,222,095-20% below budget
    Changes Health and Wellbeing2 wins£1,910,441No published budget
    The Peter Pan Centre1 win£401,600No published budget
    Port Vale Foundation1 win£401,600No published budget

    Sector Market Benchmark & Opportunity Radar

    CPV 85 · UK Sector Analysis
    Observed CPV-sector evidence
    Suitable for SMEs
    Prepared 10 Sept 2026, 12:10 BST
    Observed CPV-sector evidence where it exists, with clearly labelled UK all-sector context for sparse fields; this is market context, not a bid forecast.
    Median Winning Discount
    0%
    CPV sector evidence · 450 comparable price observations
    Typical Bids Received
    1reported bids
    CPV sector evidence · 24,051 published bid reports
    Decision Velocity
    ~54 days
    CPV sector evidence · median from 586 completed procedures
    Notice Stability
    1 updates
    1 budget change
    Top Contenders in this Sector (CPV 85)
    Active commercial suppliers winning public contracts in this field
    Supplier
    Awards won
    Total awarded value
    Avg. winning discount
    40 contracts£166,246,903,700At ceiling / not disclosed
    23 contracts£35,248,700,687At ceiling / not disclosed
    23 contracts£27,480,539,010At ceiling / not disclosed
    17 contracts£27,287,590,145At ceiling / not disclosed
    24 contracts£23,471,877,206At ceiling / not disclosed
    14 contracts£14,636,940,244At ceiling / not disclosed
    13 contracts£14,362,569,838At ceiling / not disclosed
    18 contracts£13,166,371,703At ceiling / not disclosed
    4 contracts£12,843,963,488At ceiling / not disclosed
    6 contracts£12,491,739,544-0% below budget
    Comparable Published Opportunities & Re-tender Precedents
    Ranked by multi-factor similarity score
    Historic records ranked from matching published evidence. They serve as research precedents for contract scoping, specifications, and previous awardees.
    Published procedure
    Published value
    Matching evidence
    Healthcare at Short-Term Holding FacilitiesHome Office · 7 Sept 2026, 13:38 BST
    £0
    same CPV family
    similar value band
    Overnight Short Break Service for Working Age AdultsBuckinghamshire Council · 3 Sept 2026, 16:42 BST
    £0
    same CPV family
    similar value band
    Community Hub for Twyford and DistrictWokingham Borough Council · 7 Sept 2026, 16:30 BST
    £1
    same CPV family
    similar value band
    Clinical Support Information and Pathway Implementation for the North Area Integrated Care PartnershipNHS NORTH EAST AND NORTH CUMBRIA INTEGRATED CARE BOARD · 8 Sept 2026, 15:27 BST
    £1,000,000
    same CPV family
    Technology Enabled CareNorfolk County Council · 4 Sept 2026, 10:51 BST
    £12,700,000
    same CPV family
    Method: tender-intelligence-v1. Empirical OCDS facts and cross-sector percentiles; missing fields remain unrecorded.SME Friendly Qualification Criteria

    Procedure terms & legal framework

    Procedure methodStandard public procedureLegal basis
    UKPGA · 2023/54
    Procurement Act 2023
    Procurement categoryservices
    Notice statusplanningProcurement threshold
    Above threshold
    (FTS publication)
    Regulatory regime{"lightTouch"}
    Commercial structureStand-alone contract (No framework)Competition typeCompetitive procedureGPA WTO coveredUnspecified in notice
    Recurring procurementNo (One-off requirement)First published10 Sept 2026, 10:30 BSTLast source update10 Sept 2026, 10:30 BST
    Estimated future notice9 Oct 2026, 23:59 BSTClassification (CPV)Social services
    Delivery area
    Official Registry OCIDocds-h6vhtk-06f5d8
    Timeline
    1. Pipeline notice
      10 Sept 2026, 10:30 BST
    2. Procedure published
      10 Sept 2026, 10:30 BST
    3. engagement
      23 Sept 2026, 23:59 BST · scheduled
      Postponed

    Commercial outcome and contract awards

    Awards (0)No award published
    Contracts (0)No contract published
    Bid statisticsNo aggregate bid statistics published
    Notice history
    From official release and amendment events
    1. Published value updated to £0
      10 Sept 2026, 10:30 BST
    2. Official notice release published
      10 Sept 2026, 10:30 BST
    3. Official notice release published
      9 Sept 2026, 15:23 BST
    4. Published tender amendment
      Not published
      Due to an unexpected change in direction, this notice's detail has been removed. An updated notice will be published at a suitable time.

    Buyer and organisations in this procedure

    Stoke on Trent City Council

    Contracting authority
    Local Council
    GB-PPON-PDQZ-1442-RZTZ
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    Official Documents & Specifications (1)

    Official links; attachments are not copied