Official UK procurement notice
CE-176-23 - Funded Early Learning and Childcare Flexible Framework Agreement - Re-opening
Authority: South Ayrshire Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionFunded Early Learning and Childcare Flexible Framework Agreement - Re-opening
- Recurrence: Yes The Flexible Framework Agreement will be open for applications continuously for a period of up to five (5) years. New entrants may be permitted to apply (and be awarded a Contract as part of the Flexible Framework) continuously. Service Providers appointed to the Flexible Framework Agreement will not be required to re-apply until the expiry of the five (5) year period.
CPV: Pre-school education services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedWhat it takes to wini
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).
- Suitability
Please refer to Procurement documents
- “CE-176-23 - Funded Early Learning and Childcare Flexible Framework…” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How South Ayrshire Council buys Pre-school education services (CPV 8011), and who usually turns up
South Ayrshire Council’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. This notice is a framework or DPS, so only frameworks and DPS are compared. Whole-market view: Pre-school education services (CPV 8011) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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How often small and medium firms win.
Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.
The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.
Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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How often local firms win similar work.
Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.
Here, local means registered in Scotland.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in Scotland.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards were announced within 52 days of the bid deadline.
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How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.
Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.
How many bids did past lots attract?
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How many bids past lots received.
Each colour is a bid-count range. Only competed lots with a published count are included.
Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid11% / 33%
2–341% / 17%
4–615% / 0%
7+33% / 50%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
Each colour shows awards below, close to or above the published estimate, one lot at a time.
On a framework or DPS, prices are agreed when work is called off.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Not comparable on a framework or DPS. The notice sets up a supplier panel and a ceiling value; what the work actually costs is agreed later, on each call-off or mini-competition, and those publish as contract notices of their own. The award-vs-estimate record of this market therefore sits on the call-offs; this page shows it on the contracts, not on the panel that frames them.
Assess each lot i
What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list
Our matching links this notice to “CE-176-23 - PROVISION OF FUNDED EARLY LEARNING AND CHILDCARE (ELC) PLACES” and “CE-163-22 - Proposed Flexible Framework Agreement for Supported Living and Personal Care for Adults with Learning Disabilities” of this authority, but none of the 19 panel members sit in a category matching this notice.
Lot #1CPV 8011Estimate not published
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How many bids this lot may attract.
The forecast uses similar past competitions. The bar shows either that forecast or past bid counts; the line below says which.
Each lot shows its own forecast based on its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid23%
2–318%
4–67%
7+52%
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Where the award price may land.
The forecast uses similar awards and the buyer’s estimate. The band covers the middle half of likely prices.
No comparable awards for this lot yet.
A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.
Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
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.
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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.
Who could compete for this lot? i
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.
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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.
| Supplier | Won in this category | Live contracts | Award vs estimate |
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| — | None on file | no comparable pairs | |
| — | None on file | no comparable pairs | |
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| — | None on file | no comparable pairs | |
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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.
What this replaces i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
46% title match.
A past supplier may not bid again.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
46% title match.
A past supplier may not bid again.
The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (46% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid
CE-176-23 - PROVISION OF FUNDED EARLY LEARNING AND CHILDCARE (ELC) PLACES, winner not published; no contract end date published.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Open admission
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Framework agreement
- Who may use this agreement
- Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
Yes · Yes
The Flexible Framework Agreement will be open for applications continuously for a period of up to five (5) years. New entrants may be permitted to apply (and be awarded a Contract as part of the Flexible Framework) continuously.
Service Providers appointed to the Flexible Framework Agreement will not be required to re-apply until the expiry of the five (5) year period.
- First published
- 19 Dec 2023, 12:17 GMT
- Last source update
- 19 Dec 2023, 12:17 GMT
- Award evaluation window
- 17 Aug 2029 – …
- FTS notice number
2023/S 000-037278- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0426d4Find a Tender
- Electronic trading
- e-invoicing allowed · electronic ordering · electronic payment
- Performance terms
Please refer to Procurement documents
Publisher note: Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if they are in any of the situations referred to in regulation 58 of The Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015 or regulation 8 of The Procurement (Scotland) Regulations 2016 . Assessment of Employment Status Tenderers may be asked to declare whether they intend to provide services through a Personal Service Company (PSC). From April 2017, the responsibility to pay employment taxes shifts from the PSC to public sector bodies and the Council must be aware of any successful tenderer’s detailed employment status. For further information on determining employment status the Government has published guidance on this IR35 Legislation Subcontractor Detail Tenderers may be required to provide details of the subcontractors they intend to use in their supply chain. Tenderers are required to complete this section as part of the SPD. Data Protection Tenderers must be aware of their obligations under the Data Protection Act 2018 as set out in the Contract documentation. Charter Against Modern Slavery The Council is committed to proactively vetting our supply chain to ensure no instances of modern slavery are taking place. Section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 introduces a requirement for certain commercial organisations (with a turnover over 36M GBP) operating in the UK to produce an annual transparency statement, which sets out the steps the organisation has taken during the financial year to ensure that slavery and human trafficking is not taking place in any of its supply chains, or any part of its business. Evidence for this requirement may be requested. The buyer is using PCS-Tender to conduct this ITT exercise. The Project code is 25827. For more information see: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/info/InfoCentre.aspx?ID=2343 Community benefits are included in this requirement. For more information see: https://www.gov.scot/policies/public-sector-procurement/community-benefits-in-procurement/ A summary of the expected community benefits has been provided as follows: Please refer to Procurement documents (SC Ref:753643)
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Apply via Public Contracts Scotland- Requests to participate (first stage)
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- Appointment period ends
- 17 Aug 2029, 12:00 BST
- Clarification deadline
- —
- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bid validity
- 120 days from the deadline
- Bids opened
- 17 Aug 2029, 12:00 BST
Timeline
19 Dec 2023 → 17 Aug 2029 · 3 dates- Notice published19 Dec 2023, 12:17 GMT
- Today22 Oct 2026
- Admission / appointment period endsperiod end, not a bid countdown17 Aug 2029, 12:00 BST
- Bids opened17 Aug 2029, 12:00 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Nothing awarded yet- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- Ayr Sheriff CourtReview body
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Economic and financial selection criteria
- Technical selection criteria