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title: "Children’s Residential Care and Education Services including Short Breaks"
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# Children’s Residential Care and Education Services including Short Breaks

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/children-s-residential-care-and-education-services-including-short-breaks-ocds-h6vhtk-02ec30). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Scotland Excel: "Children’s Residential Care and Education Services including Short Breaks". Published status: planned. Planned Pipeline Value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** PLANNED (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [Scotland Excel](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/scotland-excel-GB-FTS-186)
- **Planned Pipeline Value:** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Not published
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Health and social work services, Social services, Social work and related services, Social work services, Social work services with accommodation (+1 more)
- **Delivery Location:** UK
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-02ec30`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/children-s-residential-care-and-education-services-including-short-breaks-ocds-h6vhtk-02ec30#tl-md)

## Description
This is a Prior Information Notice (PIN) relating only to the engagement with providers of Children's Residential Services. This is not a procurement process at this stage.
Scotland Excel manage the national Children’s Residential Care and Education, including Short Breaks, framework on behalf of the 32 Scottish Local Authorities.
As framework owners, we are aware of the significant changes taking place in respect of policy and strategic change, including The Promise, and the potential influences these bring on the future of residential care and education services in Scotland. We would like to understand, from the perspective of Providers delivering these services (whether currently providing services under the framework or not), what impacts or changes you are experiencing or foreseeing in the sector at this time. We have included a link to a survey (attached below) to enable providers to feedback to us on this.
This Prior Information Notice is for market research purposes only at this time to inform potential future commissioning activity. Please disregard the "Estimated date of publication of contract notice date".

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** planned
- **CPV codes:** 85000000, 85300000, 85310000, 85311000, 85311300, 85320000
- **Delivery regions:** UK

- **Description:** Background Information
Scotland Excel has managed a national Children’s Residential Care framework since 2014. As framework owners, we are aware of the significant changes taking place in respect of policy and strategic change, including The Promise,...

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F025795-2021)
- **Last Source Update:** 2021-10-15T08:55:02.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-29T03:51:56.589Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-02ec30