Official UK procurement notice
Complex AWD Residential Framework reopening 2025
Authority: Essex County Council (Local council)·Consortium: 2 public authorities
Essex County Council is seeking to procure a framework for the delivery of registered residential care services to adults with complex needs, with learning disabilities and/or autism. This is a re-opening exercise for the framework to identify new providers. The framework is for an initial period of 4 years from the initial contract award in March 2023, with the option to extend for a further two years.
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionEssex County Council is seeking to procure a framework for the delivery of registered residential care services to adults with complex needs, with learning disabilities and/or autism. This is a re-opening exercise for the framework to identify new providers.
The framework is for an initial period of 4 years from the initial contract award in March 2023, with the option to extend for a further two years.
The framework is open to all providers (with or without existing residential services in Essex) and will not have a limit for the number of providers or homes. The closure date for the procurement process will be 12pm on 5th December 2025 and all procurement and contract documents can be viewed free of charge on ProContract - procontract.due-north.com ↗
CPV: Health and social work services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1RenewalPublished value£168,000,000
What 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).
- “Complex AWD Residential Framework reopening 2025” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.
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
- Past planning notice
- 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
- First published
- 5 Aug 2022, 09:48 BST
- Last source update
- 29 Oct 2025, 16:06 GMT
- Award evaluation window
- 19 Jul 2023 – …
- Authority reference
DN781682- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-069517- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-035930Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Appointment period ends
- 5 Dec 2025, 12:00 GMT
- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bids opened
- 19 Jul 2023, 16:30 BST
Timeline
19 Jul 2023 → 5 Dec 2025 · 3 dates- Bids opened19 Jul 2023, 16:30 BST
- Notice published369 days ago29 Oct 2025, 16:06 GMT
- Admission / appointment period ends332 days ago · period end, not a bid countdown5 Dec 2025, 12:00 GMT
Notice history
3 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 19 Jul 2023- Deadline moved to 28 Aug 2023, 12:00 BST19 Jul 2023, 15:59 BST+357 days · was 5 Sept 2022, 12:00 BST
- Buyer details updated19 Jul 2023, 15:59 BST
- Deadline moved to 5 Dec 2025, 12:00 GMT29 Oct 2025, 16:06 GMT+830 days · was 28 Aug 2023, 12:00 BST
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
2 public bodies on the noticeDispute resolution & review bodies
- Royal Courts of JusticeReview body
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.