Official UK procurement notice
WSCC GM Framework Reopening for the provision of Accommodation and Support for 16+ Older Looked After Young People and Care Leavers
Authority: West Sussex County Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionA Framework for the provision of Accommodation and Support for 16+ Older Looked After Young People and Care Leavers, was established and effective from 1st September 2021 by West Sussex County Council. From January 2022, the Framework will be continually open to new Service Providers to join the Framework at any time throughout the Agreement Term.
CPV: Health and social work services
How this framework works
From the published notice- Places
- up to 1 suppliers · 37 bids received (37.0 per place) · 25 appointed (full)
- Framework period
- 7 yrs from 1 Sept 2021, This falls within the light touch regime
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1RenewalPublished value£45,000,000
Please see tender pack at - www.sesharedservices.org.uk/esourcing ↗
What it takes to wini
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).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
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).
- Price
- Suitability
As per the tender pack which can be found at -www.sesharedservices.org.uk/esourcing ↗
- “WSCC GM Framework Reopening for the provision of Accommodation and…” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, up to 1 suppliers, not a single contract.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How West Sussex County Council buys Health and social work services (CPV 85), and who usually turns up
West Sussex County 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
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.
No small-firm winners recorded among this authority’s published awards in this sample.
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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.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered 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 75 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.
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% / 4%
2–30% / 6%
4–630% / 17%
7+60% / 73%
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.
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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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 #1Published estimate£45m
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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.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid3%
2–32%
4–613%
7+82%
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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.
| Supplier | Won in this category | Live contracts | Award vs estimate |
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| £682m15 awards in 36m · last 1 months ago | 3 live · £7.7m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | at estimate n=8 | |
| £15m26 awards in 36m · last this month | 13 live · £12m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | at estimate n=7 | |
| £4.7m2 awards in 36m · last 6 months ago | 2 live · £4.7m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | at estimate n=2 | |
Multiple SuppliersLarge | £5.7m49 awards in 36m · last 4 months ago | 38 live iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | no comparable pairs |
Young DevonSME | £19m10 awards in 36m · last 9 months ago | 3 live · £4.8m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | no comparable pairs |
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 match score 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 · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Open admission
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Framework agreement
- Who may use the vehicle
- Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Yes
- First published
- 29 Apr 2021, 15:56 BST
- Last source update
- 23 May 2024, 12:19 BST
- Award evaluation window
- 31 Aug 2028 – …
- Authority reference
2022/S 000-000488- FTS notice number
2024/S 000-016316- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-02abd3Find a Tender
Publisher note: This is the permanent reopening of the Framework for the provision of Accommodation and Support for 16+ Older Looked After Young People and Care Leavers. Applications will be opened when submitted via the esourcing portal during the term of the framework
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Apply via In-tend- Requests to participate (first stage)
- —
- Appointment period ends
- 31 Aug 2028, 12:00 BST
- Clarification deadline
- —
- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission","written"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bid validity
- 120 days from the deadline
- Bids opened
- 31 Aug 2028, 12:10 BST
Timeline
1 Sept 2021 → 31 Aug 2028 · 4 dates- Contract starts1 Sept 2021, 00:00 BST
- Notice published23 May 2024, 12:19 BST
- Today15 Oct 2026
- Admission / appointment period endsperiod end, not a bid countdown31 Aug 2028, 12:00 BST
- Bids opened31 Aug 2028, 12:10 BST
Notice history
3 events · 4 releases on Find a Tender · since 19 Oct 2021- Status changed to complete19 Oct 2021, 09:22 BST
- Status changed to active7 Jan 2022, 13:19 GMT
- Deadline moved to 31 Aug 2028, 12:00 BST7 Jan 2022, 13:19 GMT+2648 days · was 1 Jun 2021, 12:00 BST
Published amendments (1 · 0 deadline changes)
| When | What | Before | After | Shift |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | TextName and addresses · I.1 | Buyer's address https://in-tendhost.co.uk/sesharedservices/aspx/Tenders/Current | Buyer's address https://atamis-7669.my.site.com/s/Welcome | |
| — | TextCommunication · I.3 | The procurement documents are available for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge, at https://in-tendhost.co.uk/sesharedservices/aspx/Tenders/CurrentAdditional information can be obtained from the above-mentioned addressTenders or requests to participate must be submitted electronically via https://in-tendhost.co.uk/sesharedservices/aspx/Tenders/CurrentTenders or requests to particip… | The procurement documents are available for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge, at https://in-tendhost.co.uk/sesharedservices/aspx/Tenders/CurrentAdditional information can be obtained from the above-mentioned addressTenders or requests to participate must be submitted electronically via https://in-tendhost.co.uk/sesharedservices/aspx/Tenders/CurrentTenders or requests to particip… |
1 amendment published without a description.
Routine re-releases (4)
- 2021-04: 1 release · 29 Apr 2021
Commercial outcome & contract awardsAwards so far
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast1 suppliers are admitted to this framework without individual award values or dates, see the supplier list below.
Contracts
Provision of Accommodation and Support for 16+ Older Looked After Young People and Care Leavers
- Signed
- 18 Oct 2021
- Value
- £45,000,000
- Period
- … – 31 Aug 2028
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 37bids · 37 electronic | 20 | — | — |
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- Public Procurement Review ServiceReview body
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Official documents & specifications (4)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Economic and financial selection criteria
- Technical selection criteria
- Economic and financial selection criteria
- Technical selection criteria