Official UK procurement notice
Commissioning Homes for Children Looked After & Care Leavers PDPS - Lot 4 Rd 7
Authority: London Borough of Newham (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe London Borough of Newham has established a Pseudo-Dynamic Purchasing System (PDPS) for the supply of services in respect of children's externally commissioned care, accommodation and support services.
This notice is for the re-opening of Lot 4 Round 7.
The services include:
Lot 1: Provision of Semi-Independent Living Services - already established
Lot 2: Provision of Children's Homes regulated by Ofsted - already established
Lot 3: Provision of Supported Lodgings
Lot 4: Provision of Independent Fostering Agencies (IFA) regulated by Ofsted
These services will be available to looked after children, care leavers and young people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness .
Potential Suppliers are invited to Tender for one or more of the Lots.
This PDPS is open for use to the following (and subject to Section 3 Scope of Agreement of LAC PDPS Agreement Processor):
- any Public Body outlined in either Part I or Part II of the Local Authorities (Goods and Services) (Public Bodies) Order 1972. Details of these can be found at www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1972/853/made ↗
The Procurement is being procured by the Authority for the benefit of the Authority and the Partner Organisations.
The procurement is being conducted in accordance with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. The procurement is subject to the light-touch regime under Section 7 Social and Other Specific Services. Under Regulation 76 the Council is free to establish a procedure, provided that procedure is sufficient to ensure compliance with the principles of transparency and equal treatment of economic operators (Suppliers).
The Authority has created a tender process outlined below, as part of the PDPS applying the award criteria specified in this contract notice.
Any interested organisation/consortium with relevant experience may submit a Bid in response to this ITT.
The Council is using the one stage procedure for admission onto the PDPS
The Light Touch PDPS will be conducted in staged Rounds.
Rounds will open and close throughout the lifetime of the PDPS at the Authorities discretion. Following on from this, each Round will be open to new or previously unsuccessful Suppliers to submit their bid.
This means that applications can be submitted throughout the duration of the PDPS, but the Council will only process the applications as and when the round is closed. Please note the length of Rounds will vary throughout the lifetime of the PDPS.
Further Rounds will be communicated within the tender documents at time of publication. Any changes to the procurement Timetable shall be notified to all Tenderers as soon as practicable.
CPV: Social work and related services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1A Supplier wanting to join the PDPS will be required to apply through the Council's…
A Supplier wanting to join the PDPS will be required to apply through the Council's procurement e-tendering portal; Fusion.
Suppliers who are unsuccessful in a specific Round may apply to be admitted to the PDPS in a subsequent or later Round
The Council will add Potential Suppliers to the PDPS throughout its duration, providing Potential Suppliers meet the requirement as outlined in the ITT and submit an Application, which is found to be compliant.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How London Borough of Newham buys Social work and related services (CPV 8530), and who usually turns up
London Borough of Newham’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Social work and related services (CPV 8530) →
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 Greater London.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in Greater London.
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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 65 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.
Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
Direct awards or one recorded bid are common here. Check the route before spending time on a bid.
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 bid14% / 22%
2–30% / 30%
4–614% / 32%
7+71% / 16%
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.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Below estimate42%
Within ±2%53%
Above estimate5%
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
Lot #1A Supplier wanting to join the PDPS will be required to apply through the Council's…CPV 8530Estimate 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 bid26%
2–340%
4–618%
7+16%
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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.
| Supplier | This buyer’s earlier contract | Lot | Award value | Why listed |
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| Family First FosteringWorked for this buyer | Commissioning Homes for Children Looked After and Care leavers PDPS - Lot 2notice published Apr 2022 | Semi-Independent Living Services | — | Similar wording and category |
| Gateway Independent Living LimitedWorked for this buyer | Commissioning Homes for Children Looked After and Care leavers PDPS - Lot 2notice published Apr 2022 | Semi-Independent Living Services | — | Similar wording and category |
| James Kids Homes LtdWorked for this buyer | Commissioning Homes for Children Looked After and Care leavers PDPS - Lot 2notice published Apr 2022 | Semi-Independent Living Services | — | Similar wording and category |
| Look Ahead Care and Support LimitedWorked for this buyer | Commissioning Homes for Children Looked After and Care leavers PDPS - Lot 2notice published Apr 2022 | Semi-Independent Living Services | — | Similar wording and category |
| Elliot Leigh TLC LimitedWorked for this buyer | Commissioning Homes for Children Looked After and Care leavers PDPS - Lot 2notice published Apr 2022 | Semi-Independent Living Services | — | Similar wording and category |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| £27m13 awards in 36m · last 3 months ago | 1 live · £6.6m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | at estimate n=8 | |
| £172k8 awards in 36m · last 3 months ago | 1 live · £203m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | no comparable pairs | |
| — | None on file | no comparable pairs | |
| — | None on file | no comparable pairs | |
| — | None on file | no comparable pairs |
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
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Open for tender
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 21 Oct 2026, 14:35 BST
- Last source update
- 21 Oct 2026, 14:35 BST
- Award evaluation window
- 26 Feb 2027 – …
- Authority reference
ITTN573- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-099557- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-078d05Find a Tender
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Submit via portal- Requests to participate (first stage)
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- Tender submission deadline
- 26 Feb 2027, 12:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- —
- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bids opened
- 26 Feb 2027, 13:00 GMT
Timeline
21 Oct 2026 → 26 Feb 2027 · 3 dates- Notice published1 day ago21 Oct 2026, 14:35 BST
- Today22 Oct 2026
- Submission deadlinein 127 days26 Feb 2027, 12:00 GMT
- Bids openedin 127 days26 Feb 2027, 13:00 GMT
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
- Royal Courts of JusticeReview body
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice; the tender pack is on the portal.