Official UK procurement notice
Direct Payments Support Service
Authority: Lancashire County Council (Local council)·On behalf of: SOCIAL VALUE PORTAL LTD
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionLancashire County Council (the Council) is in the process of undertaking a review of Direct Payments Support Services. The Council is yet to determine how these services will be commissioned.
CPV: Health and social work services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Lancashire County Council buys Health and social work services (CPV 85), and who usually turns up
Lancashire County Council’s published record next to the market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Health and social work services (CPV 85) →
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.
Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in North West England.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
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.
Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards have an award date within 50 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 bid30% / 17%
2–340% / 34%
4–630% / 28%
7+0% / 21%
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 estimate14% / 29%
Within ±2%86% / 61%
Above estimate0% / 10%
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 85Published estimate£5.8m
This lot lists more than one class in CPV 85. The comparison uses that group.
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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 306 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid17%
2–334%
4–628%
7+21%
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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.
| Supplier | This buyer’s earlier contract | Lot | Award value | Why listed |
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| N-Compass Towards A Brighter Future LtdEarlier contract | Carer Assessment and Support Servicesended Sept 2026 | — | £10m | Matched as the earlier contract |
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- 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
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 26 May 2026, 08:57 BST
- Last source update
- 27 Jul 2026, 10:58 BST
- Authority reference
JB/ASC/LCC/25/1443- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-070663- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06a292Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
26 May 2026 → 1 Jul 2027 · 5 dates- Planning notice published152 days ago26 May 2026, 08:57 BST
- Latest notice published90 days ago27 Jul 2026, 10:58 BST
- Market engagement75 days ago10 Aug 2026, 23:59 BST
We wish to engage with key stakeholders for the delivery of these services in relation to some of the priorities outlined by residents of Lancashire who have used these Direct Payment services. (Lancashire Residents).
This is a pre tender market engagement exercise to inform future service design. The Council is not seeking bids, pricing, or formal proposals at this stage. Responses will be used to understand market capability, innovation and best practice.
Providers should not submit bids, pricing, or commercially sensitive proposals as part of this engagement. Any future procurement will be conducted separately and transparently.
For the avoidance of doubt the proposals set out within the market engagement document are subject to change at the Council's discretion.
Following the market engagement, if any procurement activity is required this will be to publish via the Oracle Fusion Portal.
See questionnaire on LCC's tendering opportunities page under the Direct Payment title:
www.lancashire.gov.uk/business/tenders-and… ↗
The deadline is 12pm on Monday 10th August 2026.
- Today25 Oct 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 8 days1 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 249 days1 Jul 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
3 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 26 May 2026- Pipeline notice published26 May 2026, 08:57 BSTUK1
- Preliminary market engagement notice published27 Jul 2026, 10:58 BSTUK2
- Published value published: £5,760,00027 Jul 2026, 10:58 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
2 public bodies on the noticeOther public bodies
- SOCIAL VALUE PORTAL LTDProcuring entityEvaluation and ongoing contract management support for the social value deliverables under the future contract.
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