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# Deaf, Deaf Blind and Visually Impaired Equipment and Support Service and Community Equipment

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/deaf-deaf-blind-and-visually-impaired-equipment-and-support-service-and-community-equipmen-ocds-h6vhtk-0507e4). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Notice summary:** The Service will provide information, advice, support, and representation to people living with hearing and sight loss in Bath and North East Somerset, together with assistive equipment, social activities, community outreach support information, and advice relating to communication needs. To include signposting to courses as appropriate. Services are required to be accessible Monday to Friday and able to accommodate a mixture of bookable and walk-in appointments over this time frame.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [Bath & North East Somerset Council](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/bath-north-east-somerset-council-ons-e06000022)
- **Contract Value (direct award):** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Below threshold - without competition
- **Main Category:** Not published
- **Classifications (CPV):** None published
- **Delivery Location:** UKK12
- **Legal Basis:** UKPGA 2023/54
- **Awarded Value:** £80,793 (exc. VAT, 1 contract)
- **Official Documents:** 1 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/deaf-deaf-blind-and-visually-impaired-equipment-and-support-service-and-community-equipmen-ocds-h6vhtk-0507e4#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-0507e4`

## 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/deaf-deaf-blind-and-visually-impaired-equipment-and-support-service-and-community-equipmen-ocds-h6vhtk-0507e4#tl-md)

## Description
The Service will provide information, advice, support, and representation to people living with hearing and sight loss in Bath and North East Somerset, together with assistive equipment, social activities, community outreach support information, and advice relating to communication needs. To include signposting to courses as appropriate.
Services are required to be accessible Monday to Friday and able to accommodate a mixture of bookable and walk-in appointments over this time frame. Core hours are 10am-1pm with provision of a drop-in service in North East Somerset once a week.
*Due to system limitations in the Find a Tender Service (FTS), the contract signature date shown in this notice does not reflect the actual contract signature date - the contract was signed on 16.04.2025

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 85000000
- **Delivery regions:** UKK
- **Delivery countries in notice:** GB

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (1)
- **Award:** 1 (active)

  - Supplier(s): **Breakthrough (Deaf-Hearing Integration)**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-145205`
  - Value: £80,793 † (exc. VAT)

> † value taken from the contract record; the award notice published none.

## Contracts (1)
- **Contract:** Deaf, Deaf Blind and Visually Impaired Equipment and Support Service and Community Equipment (active)
  - Signed Value: £80,793
  - Signed Date: 30/03/2025

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F017131-2025)
- **Last Source Update:** 2025-04-25T15:34:43.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-11-03T08:31:43.343Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-0507e4