Official UK procurement notice
Care and Support Service at Hanley Gardens & Beaumont Rise
Authority: Islington Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThis Notice is for informational purposes only and is not a formal invitation to tender. Its aim is to enhance transparency and competition for the upcoming tender notice. All details provided here may be updated or changed in the final tender notice. The Authority reserves the right to cancel, postpone, suspend or abort the procurement at any stage. The issue of this notice in no way commits the Authority to commence a procurement process.
Islington Council is seeking to procure a Care and Support service for up to 17 adults with complex and enduring mental health needs. The service will be delivered within supported living accommodation comprising either self-contained studio apartments with shared communal facilities at Beaumont Rise, a new development currently under construction or individual rooms with shared facilities. at Hanley Gardens, an existing scheme.
The provider will support residents with daily living tasks such as medication management, budgeting, cleaning, and cooking. The service will deliver trauma-informed, person-centred, and strength-based mental health support. Providers must demonstrate expertise in active risk management and work collaboratively with clinical teams to ensure resident safety and well-being.
The successful provider will have a proven track record of delivering high-quality care and support services to individuals with complex mental health needs. The Council reserves the right to confirm the final location of the service based on site readiness. Should Beaumont Rise not be available at the time of contract commencement, the service will begin at Hanley Gardens, with the provider supporting residents through any future transition to the new accommodation.
- How the procedure runs: The authority anticipates using a competitive flexible procedure with an Initial selection via a Procurement Specific Questionnaire (PSQ) assessing capability and experience. The process may include presentations by video, dialogue sessions and refinement of proposals.
CPV: Social work services without accommodation
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Planned
- Condition of participationshortlisting
Suppliers will be assessed through a Procurement Specific Questionnaire (PSQ) on capability, experience in supported living for people with complex mental health needs, and ability to integrate housing management with care and support. Shortlisted suppliers will then submit detailed tenders, evaluated on a 50% quality, 30% price and 20% social value basis. Method statements and pricing will be required, and we may invite presentations or interviews to demonstrate approach and alignment with outcomes.
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How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
- Condition of participationshortlisting
Suppliers will be assessed through a Procurement Specific Questionnaire (PSQ) on capability, experience in supported living for people with complex mental health needs, and ability to integrate housing management with care and support. Shortlisted suppliers will then submit detailed tenders, evaluated on a 50% quality, 30% price and 20% social value basis. Method statements and pricing will be required, and we may invite presentations or interviews to demonstrate approach and alignment with outcomes.
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Islington Council buys Social work services (CPV 8531), and who usually turns up
Islington Council’s published record next to the market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Social work services (CPV 8531) →
How the contest usually goes
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How often local firms win similar work.
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A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
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Half of these awards have an award date within 91 days of the bid deadline.
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Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.
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How many bids did past lots attract?
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid0% / 29%
2–338% / 39%
4–638% / 22%
7+25% / 10%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
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Below estimate21%
Within ±2%70%
Above estimate9%
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See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list
Lot #1CPV 8531Published estimate£1.9m
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How many bids this lot may attract.
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Each lot shows its own forecast based on its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative. The bar shows 77 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid29%
2–339%
4–622%
7+10%
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Where the award price may land.
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No comparable awards for this lot yet.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
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Who could compete for this lot?
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None is confirmed as a bidder.
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Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.
About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
- Two views, kept apart. The authority’s own track record and the wider market for the same kind of work sit side by side and are never mixed. Where the local picture is too thin, a figure widens to a broader market and says which one it used.
- Forecasts are labelled. The price forecast and its range, possible competitors and the earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards: not published facts, not win chances and not price advice. Official notices do not say who is bidding.
- Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Competitive flexible procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Light touch regime
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 18 Nov 2025, 11:12 GMT
- Last source update
- 18 Nov 2025, 11:12 GMT
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 1 May 2026
- Authority reference
2425-0450- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-074684- Accelerated
- Qualifying planned procurement notice
- Latest notice
- Planned procurement notice (UK3)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05e31eFind a Tender- Contract terms summary
Payments will be made within 30 days of receipt of a valid, undisputed invoice, in line with section 73 of the Procurement Act 2023 and Procurement Policy Notices (PPN) guidance. This applies throughout the supply chain for public sub-contracts.
Spot checks may be carried out to ensure compliance with 30-day payment terms, as required under PPN 021
- How it runs
The authority anticipates using a competitive flexible procedure with an Initial selection via a Procurement Specific Questionnaire (PSQ) assessing capability and experience.
The process may include presentations by video, dialogue sessions and refinement of proposals.
How it was run
Official notice- Requests to participate (first stage)
- 23 Feb 2026
- Submission deadline
- 23 Feb 2026
- Clarification deadline
- 12 Feb 2026
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Tenders must be submitted electronically via the ProContract e-procurement portal (procontract.due-north.com ↗). No postal or email submissions will be accepted.
Timeline
18 Nov 2025 → 1 Sept 2026 · 6 dates- Planning notice published342 days ago18 Nov 2025, 11:12 GMT
- Tender notice expected294 days ago5 Jan 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Clarification questions by257 days ago12 Feb 2026
- Submission deadline246 days ago23 Feb 2026
- Award decision expected by178 days ago1 May 2026, 23:59 BST
- Contract starts56 days ago1 Sept 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Planned procurement notice published18 Nov 2025, 11:12 GMTUK3
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Bidding documents and specificationsAccess: All documents will be made available electronically through the ProContract e-procurement portal. Suppliers will be able to access and download them after registering interest in the opportunity.
Notices published for this procedure
- Planned procurement notice Planned procurement notice on Find a Tender