Official UK procurement notice
Complex OT Framework - EARLY ENGAGEMENT
Authority: Westminster City Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionEARLY ENGAGEMENT:
The Council is engaging on the establishment of a four-year Framework Agreement for the delivery of specialist OT assessments and associated services. The Framework will enable the Council to appoint a number of suitably qualified independent associate Occupational Therapists to deliver services on a call-off basis, ensuring flexibility and resilience in service provision.
THE PURPOSE OF THIS NOTICE IS TO ADVERTISE AN ENGAGEMENT AND INFORMATION SESSION - THIS IS NOT A CALL FOR COMPETITION
CPV: Health and social work services · Miscellaneous health services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1The Council is engaging on the establishment a four-year Framework Agreement for the…Planned
The Council is engaging on the establishment a four-year Framework Agreement for the delivery of specialist OT assessments and associated services. The Framework will enable the Council to appoint a number of suitably qualified independent associate Occupational Therapists to deliver services on a call-off basis, ensuring flexibility and resilience in service provision.
The service must be delivered by suitably qualified and experienced Occupational Therapists, who are professionally registered and able to demonstrate strong clinical reasoning, assessment, and multi-agency working capabilities.
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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 OT Framework - EARLY ENGAGEMENT” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Westminster City Council buys Health and social work services (CPV 85), and who usually turns up
Westminster City Council’s published record next to the market for the same work. Compared with other frameworks and DPS only. Whole-market view: Health and social work services (CPV 85) →
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Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
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Half of these awards have an award date within 88 days of the bid deadline.
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Lot #1The Council is engaging on the establishment a four-year Framework Agreement for the…CPV 85Published estimate£1.5m
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2–310%
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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.
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Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- 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
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 4 Jun 2026, 08:58 BST
- Last source update
- 4 Jun 2026, 08:58 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-052568- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06acf6Find a Tender
Publisher note: Westminster City Council are looking to develop a ‘pool’ of individual, experienced Occupational Therapists, who are or are able to set up as suppliers to deliver their complex occupational therapy service. If you are an HCPC-registered Occupational Therapists with five-year post qualification experience, we would like to invite you to a 1-hour online information session to learn more about our Complex OT Associate model and how you can get involved. This is a great opportunity for self-employed OT seniors and experienced OTs operating outside IR35 who are interested in: - Delivering major adaptations - Undertaking complex, community-based OT assessments - Working on high-impact cases that support residents to live safely and independently at home What makes this opportunity different: -Paid a competitive case rate per completed assessment, with potential to increase earnings based on volume of work undertaken -Associates are paid on a case-rate basis for completed work, offering flexibility and professional autonomy. -Offers high flexibility, making it ideal for locum OTs, established self-employed practitioners, or those wanting to take on additional work alongside an existing role -You will work as part of an embedded Council team, closely aligned with the -Community Independence Service (CIS), Housing / Home Improvement Agency, Adult Social Care teams, and hospital discharge pathways -You will undertake meaningful, complex OT work, including major adaptations and specialist assessments -Work is managed through the Council’s case management system (Mosaic) 1-hour information session – what we’ll cover: - Overview of the Complex OT Associate model - Types of work involved, including major adaptations and complex cases - How the associate framework will operate in practice - How to express interest and next steps in the set up (procurement) process - Open Q&A When: 17 June 2026 at 1:00PM. Where: MS Teams (online) Register your interest: by emailing: [email protected] OR [email protected] Please use the subject heading 'Complex OT - Engagement and Information Session' and a Teams invite will be emailed to enable you to join the scheduled event online. This session is ideal for experienced Occupational Therapists who enjoy working autonomously, value high-quality complex practice, and want to be part of an integrated public-sector service making a real difference to residents’ lives.
How it was run
Official notice- Appointment period ends
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Timeline
4 Jun 2026 → 20 Jul 2026 · 2 dates- Notice published142 days ago4 Jun 2026, 08:58 BST
- Tender notice expected97 days ago20 Jul 2026, 00:00 BST
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