Official UK procurement notice
Framework for the Provision of Trailblazer Programme Support Services and Activities
Authority: City & County of Swansea (Local council)
What is being bought4 lots · detail below
Published requirement descriptionSwansea Council is establishing a Framework Agreement to commission suitable providers to deliver accessible, community-based activities and support as part of Swansea Council’s Trailblazer programme. Funding for this commission has been secured through the Welsh Government’s Trailblazer fund.
The services will support economically inactive residents across Swansea to improve health, wellbeing, confidence, resilience, social connection and readiness to move closer to employment, training, volunteering or wider community participation. The programme will align with CFW+ and strengthen links with statutory, third sector, health, community and employer-based services to ensure participants can access appropriate local support and opportunities.
The Framework is comprised of Four (4) Lots:-
Lot 1: Physical and Emotional Health
Lot 2: Education, Employability and Skill Building
Lot 3: Creative and Cultural Provision
Lot 4: Other Beneficial Provision
CPV: Adult and other education services · Counselling services · Guidance and counselling services · Other community, social and personal services · Personal development training services · Provision of services to the community · Specialist training services
Lots and requirements (4)Procurement structure
4 lots · all with a published valueEvery one of these 4 lots carries the same published figure, £40,000: it is the framework's maximum for the whole notice, not each lot's own budget, and no share per lot is published. The cards below say ceiling above rather than repeat it.
Lot #1Physical and Emotional HealthRenewalceiling above
- Extensions
The value of each lot will be dependent on service under need and their individual requirements, the Lot amount stated has been specified due to mandatory fields, but is not necessarily the maximum per lot. The maximum provision will be as specified within the total framework value, however this value maybe increased subject to further grant funding which has not been agreed at this moment in time. · 19th November more…
2026 to 31st March 2027 (optional up to 12 month extension which is subject to funding)
Award criteria
Quality - 40% Price - 60%
Lot #2Education, Employability and Skill BuildingRenewalceiling above
- Extensions
The value of each lot will be dependent on service under need and their individual requirements, the lot amount stated has been specified due to mandatory fields, but is not necessarily the maximum per lot. The maximum provision will be as specified within the total framework value, however this value maybe increased subject to further grant funding which has not been agreed at this moment in time. · 19th November more…
2026 to 31st March 2027 (optional up to 12 month extension which is subject to funding)
Award criteria
Quality - 40% Price - 60%
Lot #3Creative and Cultural ProvisionRenewalceiling above
- Extensions
The value of each lot will be dependent on service under need and their individual requirements, the lot amount stated has been specified due to mandatory fields, but is not necessarily the maximum per lot. The maximum provision will be as specified within the total framework value, however this value maybe increased subject to further grant funding which has not been agreed at this moment in time. · 19th November more…
2026 to 31st March 2027 (optional up to 12 month extension which is subject to funding)
Award criteria
Quality - 40% Price - 60%
Lot #4Other Beneficial ProvisionRenewalceiling above
- Extensions
The value of each lot will be dependent on service under need and their individual requirements, the lot amount stated has been specified due to mandatory fields, but is not necessarily the maximum per lot. The maximum provision will be as specified within the total framework value, however this value maybe increased subject to further grant funding which has not been agreed at this moment in time. · 19th November more…
2026 to 31st March 2027 (optional up to 12 month extension which is subject to funding)
Award criteria
Quality - 40% Price - 60%
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How City & County of Swansea buys Social work services (CPV 8531) — and who usually turns up
City & County of Swansea’s own published record, next to the Wales (Cymru) market for the same work. This notice is a framework or DPS, so only frameworks and DPS are compared. Whole-market view: Social work services (CPV 8531) →
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 frameworks and DPS only — direct awards (including PA 2023 transparency notices) report one bid by definition and are left out. On Procurement Act 2023 notices the count is the tenders assessed at the final stage, not every submission received; pairs compare like with like (VAT-exclusive, or VAT-inclusive on both sides). Empty means nothing was published, not filled in from elsewhere.
City & County of Swansea
framework/DPS notices in 36 months: 9 in CPV 8531 (3 route not published) · 18 in division 85 (6 route not published) · 60 in all categories (12 route not published)
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How many companies usually bid for work like this.
Middle value of published bid counts, one per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in this sector (CPV 8531), last 36 months: 15 lots. All 15 lots are from older notices, which count bids received.
Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.
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How often only one company bid.
Share of lots that received exactly one bid, on the same competitions as the bids figure.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in this sector (CPV 8531), last 36 months: 15 lots.
High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.
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Do awards for work like this land above or below the estimate.
Estimate against award per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 24 months: 94 pairs.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
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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.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 10 notices.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
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How often this buyer changes a notice after publishing it.
Middle number of amendments per notice. Deadline extensions and corrections both count.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 24 months: 345 notices.
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How often this buyer awards without a competition.
Direct or limited awards as a share of its notices that say which procedure was used. These routes are legal in defined cases. This is just the record.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in this sector (CPV 8531), last 36 months: 6 notices.
Wales (Cymru) · Social work services (CPV 8531)
framework/DPS notices delivered in Wales (Cymru) in 36 months: 34 in CPV 8531 (29 competed, 3 route not published) · 413 in division 85 (335 competed, 63 route not published)
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How many companies usually bid for work like this.
Middle value of published bid counts, one per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 8531), last 36 months: 61 lots. 2 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 14.5) and 59 from older notices (bids received, middle 4).
Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.
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How often only one company bid.
Share of lots that received exactly one bid, on the same competitions as the bids figure.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 8531), last 36 months: 61 lots.
High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.
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Do awards for work like this land above or below the estimate.
Estimate against award per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Nothing published for this region in this sector: not measured on frameworks — a panel award is a ceiling, not a price.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
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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.
Based on this region’s tenders in this industry (CPV 85), last 36 months: 16 notices.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
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How much of this market goes to small and medium firms.
SME bidders where buyers published the split, otherwise SME winners.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 8531), last 36 months: 61 lots.
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How much work like this goes to companies based in the delivery region.
Awards in this category delivered here where the winner’s registered address is in the region.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 8531), last 36 months: 57 awards.
Registered address, so a national firm with a local branch counts as outside.
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Where this tender’s estimate would land if the usual pattern repeats.
We apply the buyer’s usual movement between estimate and award (or the region’s) to the estimate on this notice.
This notice gives one total for several lots, so we show the percentage but do not turn it into pounds.
A benchmark, not a price to bid.
Coverage and what to read with care
- Each tile explains itself. The on a figure says what it is, how it is counted and which scope this notice’s own record came from (class, division, all categories, or the authority’s 24-month row). The two columns are never blended and nothing is filled from a UK-wide figure; an empty tile means the source published nothing usable. Long form: Methodology.
- 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). About 30 % of award-vs-estimate pairs are exact matches — the buyer published the award at the estimate. n is on every figure; a thin sample is muted, never hidden.
- “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
- Below threshold - open competition
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Open admission
- Procurement threshold
- Below threshold
- Regulatory regime
- Light touch regime
- Commercial structure
- Framework agreement
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 2 Oct 2026, 15:03 BST
- Last source update
- 2 Oct 2026, 15:03 BST
- Authority reference
CCS/26/251- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-077fefFind a Tender
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Apply via Jaggaer- Expression of interest (EOI)
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- Appointment period ends
- 2 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 26 Oct 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
Timeline
4 published dates · Europe/London- Tender notice publishedearlier today2 Oct 2026, 15:03 BST
- Clarification questions byin 24 days26 Oct 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Admission / appointment period endsin 31 days · period end, not a bid countdown2 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Contract startsin 47 days19 Nov 2026, 00:00 GMT
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 published2 Oct 2026, 15:03 BSTUK4
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (3)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Bidding documents and specifications ITT Code: itt_127704
- Technical specifications ITT Code: itt_127704
Notices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender