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title: "Contract for 16+ Accommodation and Support"
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# Contract for 16+ Accommodation and Support

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/contract-for-16-accommodation-and-support-ocds-h6vhtk-03a361). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Kent County Council: "Contract for 16+ Accommodation and Support". Published status: planned. Planned Pipeline Value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** PLANNED (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [Kent County Council](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/kent-county-council-ons-e10000016)
- **Planned Pipeline Value:** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Not published
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Social work services with accommodation, Welfare services for children and young people
- **Delivery Location:** UKJ4
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-03a361`

## 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/contract-for-16-accommodation-and-support-ocds-h6vhtk-03a361#tl-md)

## Description
Kent County Council has a statutory responsibility to safeguard and promote the welfare of
Kent Children in Care and ensure best value for money it spends on behalf of the Kent
population. It also has a statutory responsibility to ensure there is safe and sufficient
accommodation for Children in Care. The KCC Sufficiency Strategy for 2022-2027 sets out
our approach to meet this statutory responsibility over the next five years.
In addition, in December 2021, the Department for Education outlined its intention to
introduce national standards for independent and semi-independent provision for looked
after children and care leavers aged 16 and 17, which will be overseen by an Ofsted led
registration and inspection regime. The implication of this, is that current provision of
unregulated accommodation and support services within Kent, will need to be
decommissioned during a 12 months transition process, commencing in April 2023, to meet
the new national regulation standards.
The Council is working to redesign and align the existing accommodation and support
pathways for Care Leavers, Children in Care and Children in Need 16 and 17 year-olds. This
includes purchasing a good range of stable, safe, and well-maintained accommodation and
support services that are flexible to meet individual and changing demands.
This Prior Information Notice (PIN) is to advise prospective providers of the Council's
intention to hold early market engagement with providers, in order to ascertain their
intention about becoming regulated providers, and plan and conduct the procurement of the
Accommodation and Support service, with the aim to commence the procurement by 1 April
2023.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Lot 1 High/Medium Needs Supported Accommodation; Lot 2 Low Needs Supported Accommodation; and Lot 3 18+ Transitional Property Only Model Accommodation
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** planned
- **CPV codes:** 85311300
- **Delivery regions:** UKJ

- **Description:** The Services required to fulfill the offer of an Accommodation and Support Pathway are made up of:
High/Medium Needs Supported Accommodation - the capacity to support 16/17-year-old young people by providing an intensive support service model. This w...

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F003784-2023)
- **Last Source Update:** 2023-02-07T17:26:09.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-28T08:44:23.722Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-03a361