Official UK procurement notice
Community Wellbeing Services · UK public procurement notice
Authority: Kent County Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionKent County Council are looking to commission a new and innovative Community Wellbeing Service for older people, individuals with physical disabilities, sensory impairments and dementia. These services aim to promote proactive health and wellbeing, increase independence and reduce or delay the need for additional care and support. This is aligned to the Kent County Council Adult Social Care Prevention Framework: www.kent.gov.uk/about-the-council/st… ↗
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CPV: Health and social work services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewal
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Kent County Council buys Health and social work services (CPV 85), and who usually turns up
Kent County Council’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: Health and social work services (CPV 85) →
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 South East England.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in South East England. More of this buyer’s work stays local than in this market: 83% against 55%, n=42.
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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 90 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 bid21% / 18%
2–357% / 36%
4–67% / 27%
7+14% / 19%
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 estimate57% / 33%
Within ±2%43% / 59%
Above estimate0% / 9%
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 “Community Navigation Services” of this authority, but none of the 2 panel members sit in a category matching this notice.
Lot #1Published estimate£18m
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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. The bar shows 360 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid18%
2–336%
4–627%
7+19%
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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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| Carers Support East kentEarlier contract | Community Navigation Servicesnotice published Aug 2023 | Community Navigation Services Hospital Technology Facilitators | £86k | Matched as the earlier contract |
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.
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.
What this replaces i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
48% 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.
48% title match.
A past supplier may not bid again.
The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (48% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid
Community Navigation Services — held by Carers Support East kent and Involve (+1 more); no contract end date published.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- 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
- 5 Nov 2025, 16:05 GMT
- Last source update
- 5 Nov 2025, 16:05 GMT
- Authority reference
CN250579 - Community Wellbeing Services- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-071373- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05db41Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
5 Nov 2025 → 1 Apr 2027 · 3 dates- Planning notice published349 days ago5 Nov 2025, 16:05 GMT
- Market engagement327 days ago26 Nov 2025, 23:59 GMT
Kent County Council (KCC) is inviting organisations to participate in engagement events to help shape the future commissioning of community wellbeing services for older people, individuals with physical disabilities, sensory impairments, and dementia. These services aim to promote proactive health and wellbeing, increase independence, and reduce or delay the need for additional care and support.
Description:
To help shape future commissioning of these services, KCC is inviting all interested organisations to attend a market/stakeholder engagement event.
The engagement events will gather insights to inform future service design and commissioning. Topics will include:
Service vision,
Good practice examples,
What are people you support telling you about how they would like to be supported and outcomes they want to achieve,
How demand, needs and service requirement have changed in recent years,
Innovation and targeting of services,
Equity and Inclusion,
How we collaborate in the future.
The Council will be hosting 4 locality based and 2 virtual market/stakeholder engagement events, which will follow the same agenda. Dates and times of these events are detailed below. Tea and coffee will be provided at all face-to-face events.
East Kent = Monday 1st December – 13.30 – 15.30 – Godmersham and Crundale Village Hall
East Kent = Tuesday 2nd December – 9.30-11.30 – West Faversham Community Centre
West Kent = Wednesday 3rd December – 13.30-15.30 – Paddock Wood Community Centre
North Kent = Thursday 4th December – 9.30-11.30 – Riverside Resource Community Centre - Gravesend
Virtual = Wednesday 10th December - 10.00-11.30 - Microsoft Teams (Invitations will be sent nearer the time)
Virtual = Thursday 11th December - 13.30-15.00 - Microsoft Teams (Invitations will be sent nearer the time)
***Interested organisations must complete the Market Engagement Registration Form: forms.office.com/e/fKX0g2aUbE ↗
The council may cancel events if there is little or no response on a particular date.
Please ensure that you have registered using the link provided.
Please be advised that this is not a call for competition and should not be perceived as an intention to procure services. The aim of these events is to only gather insights/intelligence, which will be used to inform future service delivery.
- Today20 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 163 days1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published5 Nov 2025, 16:05 GMTUK2
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 (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender