Official UK procurement notice
Day Activities Framework for Adults
Authority: Slough Borough Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionSlough Borough Council is conducting Pre-Market Engagement to undertake the market's advice on the Daytime Activities provision and opportunities for autistic adults and adults with learning disabilities.
A Day Activity is defined as a service or community activity provided for the purpose of delivering outcomes specified in an individual’s support plan.
Adult Social Care currently utilises both spot purchase arrangement and direct payments to meet the Care Act duty to meet the need for daytime activities.
The intention is to recommission the Learning Disability and Autism daytime activities offer to ensure services are fit for purpose, aligned with current and future need and consistent with strengths-based, outcomes-focused practice. The recommissioned services will support adults to live well, independently and inclusively within their local communities, reducing inequalities and preventing escalation of need.
The recommissioning supports delivery of the Adult Learning Disability Strategy 2023–2028 and the Adult Autism Strategy 2024–2029.
The project aims to ensure Daytime Activities services are in place that deliver
- high-quality, safe and person-centred support
- enable adults to live fulfilling lives in their communities
- ensure future provision supports adults to live healthier, safer and more independent lives.
- ensure sustainability and value for money
- promote ordinary family and community life
- reduce health inequalities and social isolation
CPV: Health and social work services
How this framework works
From the published notice- Framework period
- 3 yrs · up to 4 yrs from 1 Jun 2027
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewal
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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).
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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).
- “Day Activities Framework for Adults” 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 Slough Borough Council buys Health and social work services (CPV 85), and who usually turns up
Slough Borough Council’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. This notice is a framework or DPS, so only frameworks and DPS are compared. Whole-market view: Health and social work services (CPV 85) →
How the contest usually goes
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How often small and medium firms win.
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No supplier sizes published for this authority.
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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 (authority’s region).
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
No winner locations published for this authority. Local means a registered address in South East England.
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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 80 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.
The market share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
No awards recorded for this authority in this market.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid4%
2–36%
4–617%
7+73%
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
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On a framework or DPS, prices are agreed when work is called off.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Not comparable on a framework or DPS. The notice sets up a supplier panel and a ceiling value; what the work actually costs is agreed later, on each call-off or mini-competition, and those publish as contract notices of their own. The award-vs-estimate record of this market therefore sits on the call-offs; this page shows it on the contracts, not on the panel that frames them.
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No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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Lot #1No real estimate
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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 77 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid4%
2–36%
4–617%
7+73%
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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.
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A past supplier may not bid again.
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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.
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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- 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
- 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
- 20 May 2026, 11:34 BST
- Last source update
- 16 Jun 2026, 18:30 BST
- Authority reference
SBC - 039053- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-056847- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-069d16Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Appointment period ends
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Timeline
20 May 2026 → 1 Jun 2027 · 5 dates- Planning notice published153 days ago20 May 2026, 11:34 BST
- Latest notice published126 days ago16 Jun 2026, 18:30 BST
- Market engagement111 days ago1 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST
Potential Providers are to download the RFI questionnaire and return it via the e-procurement portal by the deadline. www.in-tendhost.co.uk/sesharedservices/asp… ↗. Reference SBC - 039053.
- Today20 Oct 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 76 days4 Jan 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 223 days1 Jun 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 20 May 2026- Pipeline notice published20 May 2026, 11:34 BSTUK1
- Preliminary market engagement notice published16 Jun 2026, 18:30 BSTUK2
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
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Pipeline notice Pipeline notice on Find a Tender