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title: "Collaborative partner to establish and co-deliver Birminghams Regional Adoption Agency"
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# Collaborative partner to establish and co-deliver Birminghams Regional Adoption Agency

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/collaborative-partner-to-establish-and-co-deliver-birminghams-regional-adoption-agency-ocds-h6vhtk-028839). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Birmingham City Council: "Collaborative partner to establish and co-deliver Birminghams Regional Adoption Agency". Published status: active. Published Value: £32,500,000. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 19 Feb 2021, 12:00 GMT. Published submission portal: www.in-tendhost.co.uk.

## Key Information
- **Status:** ACTIVE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [Birmingham City Council](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/birmingham-city-council-ons-e08000025)
- **Published Value:** £32,500,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** 19 February 2021 at 12:00 GMT
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Competitive dialogue
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Welfare services for children and young people
- **Delivery Location:** UKG
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **Official Documents:** 2 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/collaborative-partner-to-establish-and-co-deliver-birminghams-regional-adoption-agency-ocds-h6vhtk-028839#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-028839`

## 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/collaborative-partner-to-establish-and-co-deliver-birminghams-regional-adoption-agency-ocds-h6vhtk-028839#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [in-tendhost.co.uk](/out?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.in-tendhost.co.uk%2Fbirminghamcc)
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/collaborative-partner-to-establish-and-co-deliver-birminghams-regional-adoption-agency-ocds-h6vhtk-028839#participate

## Description
Birmingham Childrens Trust is seeking a collaborative partner from an existing Voluntary Adoption Agency (VAA) to help it deliver the governments expectations to establish an RAA. The partner will work with the Trust to design a modern, forward thinking and well-functioning RAA, led by a vision and commitment to excellent practice, innovative approaches to achieve improvements and value for money, drawing upon the expertise of both partners. The Trust wishes to establish a Regional Adoption Agency (RAA) for the provision of matching and placing children with adopters and conducts this light touch regime (LTR) procurement in accordance with Chapter 3, section 7 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (PCR 2015) in relation to Social and Other Specific Services. The duration of the Contract will be five years from contract award with an option to extend up to March 2028. The Contract will be awarded to a single provider.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** active
- **CPV codes:** 85311300
- **Delivery regions:** UKG

- **Options published:** yes

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F000243-2021)
- **Last Source Update:** 2021-01-06T23:11:06.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-29T15:35:37.394Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-028839