Official UK procurement notice
COV - Children Social Care System
Authority: Coventry City Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionSupport the recording, tracking and analysis of children’s and families’ records
CPV: Social services · Software package and information systems · Welfare services for children and young people
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Coventry City Council buys Social services (CPV 8532), and who usually turns up
Coventry City 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: Social services (CPV 8532) →
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 West Midlands.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in West Midlands.
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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 36 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 bid10% / 17%
2–337% / 50%
4–613% / 11%
7+40% / 22%
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 estimate12% / 28%
Within ±2%73% / 61%
Above estimate15% / 11%
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 #1CPV 8532No real estimate
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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 18 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid17%
2–350%
4–611%
7+22%
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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.
No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
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.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Competitive flexible procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 10 Apr 2026, 19:18 BST
- Last source update
- 10 Apr 2026, 19:25 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 12 Aug 2026
- Authority reference
COV - 24358- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-033007- Latest notice
- Planned procurement notice (UK3)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-068067Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 19 Jun 2026, 23:59 BST
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Not allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
10 Apr 2026 → 1 Apr 2028 · 6 dates- Planning notice published195 days ago10 Apr 2026, 19:18 BST
- Market engagement188 days ago17 Apr 2026, 23:59 BST
Coventry City Council’s (CCC) existing contract for their Children’s Social Care and Early Help services is due to expire on 31st March 2028.
Coventry City Council is preparing for a future procurement of a new Children’s Social Care system with the intention of an initial contract term of 7-years and 2 * 12 months optional extension, starting from 01/04/2028 until 31/03/2037 including the extension period.
This procurement exercise will be performed though CCS Framework – RM 6259 - Vertical Application Solutions – Lot 2: Education, Community Health and Social Care Solutions, only with suppliers registered on the framework and submit their EOI for present DEMO of the solution followed by participation in Tender exercise, by 17:00 – 17th April 2026.
MARKET ENGAGEMENT EVENT (MANDATORY)
Event Period – 3days
Date: 29th April 20026 – 01st May 2026
Time: 09:30 – 15:30 every day.
Time Allotted: 1Hour and 30mins per Supplier
Platform: Microsoft Teams
Submit your EOI via correspondence thorough e. Tendering portal CSW-jets/Sell2 portal, by 17 April 2026, 1700, with details listed below.
- Organisation name
- Ofsted URN and registration date (if applicable)
- Names and roles of attendees
- Email addresses of all attendees
- Contact phone number
- Tender notice expected167 days ago8 May 2026, 23:59 BST
- Submission deadline125 days ago19 Jun 2026, 23:59 BST
- Award decision expected by71 days ago12 Aug 2026, 23:59 BST
- Today22 Oct 2026
- Contract starts1 Apr 2028, 00:00 BST
Notice history
6 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 10 Apr 2026- Preliminary market engagement notice published10 Apr 2026, 19:18 BSTUK2
- Planned procurement notice published10 Apr 2026, 19:25 BSTUK3
- Published value updated10 Apr 2026, 19:25 BST
- Status changed to planned10 Apr 2026, 19:25 BST
- Procurement method changed10 Apr 2026, 19:25 BST
- Deadline published: 19 Jun 2026, 23:59 BST10 Apr 2026, 19:25 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
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Planned procurement notice Planned procurement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender