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Official UK procurement notice
Emotional Health & Wellbeing Service For Looked After Children and Care Leavers
Authority: Wigan Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionWigan Council is seeking to appoint a provider to deliver an Emotional and Mental Health Service for Children and Young People in Care and Care Leavers.
The service will provide flexible, evidence-based, trauma-informed therapeutic and preventative support to children and young people in care, care leavers and their carers. Interventions will include a range of psychological and therapeutic approaches, individual and group work, therapeutic parenting support, psychological consultation and formulation, systemic and dyadic approaches, assessments and evidence-based parenting programmes.
The service will work closely with Wigan Council's social care teams to improve the mental health, emotional wellbeing and resilience of children and young people, support carers and foster carers, prevent escalation to more specialist services, and promote placement stability and permanence. A key focus will be ensuring that support is responsive and tailored to the individual needs and circumstances of children, young people and their carers.
The service will support Wigan children and young people in care whether placed within or outside the Wigan Borough. Delivery will be flexible and may take place across a range of appropriate venues, with some out-of-hours provision required where necessary.
- How the procedure runs: Stage 1 - PSQ, Evaluation on Quality, Social Value question and price. 3 top scoring bidders will be invited to interview Stage 2 - Interviews
CPV: Health and social work services · Other community, social and personal services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1Lot 1Published value£1,500,000
- Value
- £1,500,000 exc. VAT · £1,500,000 inc. VAT
What it takes to win
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published — the tender pack may add more- Quality — 80 points
- Social Value — 20 points
- Price — 50 points
- Interview — 50 points
- Quality — 80 points
- Social Value — 20 points
- Price — 50 points
- Interview — 50 points
No conditions of participation were published on the notice; check the tender documents.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How Wigan Council buys Health and social work services (CPV 85) — and who usually turns up
Wigan Council’s own published record, next to the North West England market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: sector page →
How the contest usually goes
Left: this authority. Right: the market where the work is delivered. Bids and award-vs-estimate pairs are per lot, from contested contracts only — direct awards report one bid by definition and are left out. Empty means nothing was published, not filled in from elsewhere.
Wigan Council
contract notices in 36 months: 11 in division 85 (2 direct) · 70 in all categories (3 direct)
North West England · Health and social work services (CPV 85)
contract notices delivered in North West England in 36 months: 2,238 in division 85 (876 contested)
robust · n=16 Awards in Wigan Council (all categories, n=16 pairs) land a median at estimate: on this notice’s £1,500,000 that is about £1,500,000. Context for a bid, not a recommended price.
Method and what to read with care
- Two columns, no blending. The authority column walks its own record only: notices in the 4-digit class, then the 2-digit division, then all categories (36 months, per lot, contested only), and as a last resort its 24-month row across all categories (per notice, every route). The market column is the notice’s primary delivery ITL1 × the same class, then division (36 months). Nothing is filled from the UK-wide class; an empty tile means the source published nothing usable.
- Per lot, contested only. Find a Tender publishes bid counts per lot; a seven-lot tender is seven contests. Procedures awarded without competition (limited / direct) are excluded from bids, price pairs and decision days — they report one bid by definition. Frameworks and DPS are a separate population from contracts (6–7 bids per lot against 2–4) and only the notice’s own kind is shown.
- Coverage. Roughly 40 % of notices publish a bid count; about half publish an ITL1 delivery location, so the market column reads the authority’s registered region when the notice has none (labelled). Award-vs-estimate pairs need a lot estimate, one active award on the lot, one canonical supplier and a gap under 60 %; about 30 % of pairs are exact matches (the buyer published the award at the estimate). n is on every figure; below 3 the tile is muted, never hidden.
- Pounds. The expected award applies the authority’s median movement (or the region’s, when the authority has fewer than 3 pairs) to this notice’s estimate; the middle half uses the region’s quartiles. A multi-lot notice publishes an envelope, so the movement is applied per lot, never to the total. A benchmark, not a recommended price.
- “Match” and “relevance” are model scores from the nightly matcher, not published facts. Find a Tender does not publish who is bidding. Never shown: contact details, payment behaviour, or a recommended price.
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
- Open for tender
- 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
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 18 Sept 2026, 13:52 BST
- Last source update
- 18 Sept 2026, 13:52 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end — 14 Jan 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Authority reference
PA047- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07757cFind a Tender
- How it runs
- Stage 1 - PSQ, Evaluation on Quality, Social Value question and price. 3 top scoring bidders will be invited to interview Stage 2 - Interviews
How to participate & submission route
Official notice- Expression of interest (EOI)
- —
- Tender submission deadline
- 16 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
- Clarification deadline
- 9 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
5 published dates · Europe/London- Tender notice publishedearlier today18 Sept 2026, 13:52 BST
- Clarification questions byin 21 days9 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
- Submission deadlinein 28 days16 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
- Award decision expected byin 118 days14 Jan 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 195 days2 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Nothing awarded yet- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published18 Sept 2026, 13:52 BSTUK4
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Conflict of interest declarationNot published
Notices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender