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title: "Framework Tender for Fostering Families and Adult Caring Households (Continuing Care and Aftercare) Services"
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# Framework Tender for Fostering Families and Adult Caring Households (Continuing Care and Aftercare) Services

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/framework-tender-for-fostering-families-and-adult-caring-households-continuing-care-and-af-ocds-h6vhtk-0493ff). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Glasgow City Council: "Framework Tender for Fostering Families and Adult Caring Households (Continuing Care and Aftercare) Services". Published status: complete. Framework Ceiling: £39,900,000. 5 published lots. Recorded submission deadline: 8 Oct 2024, 12:00 BST. Published submission portal: www.publictendersscotland.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [Glasgow City Council](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/glasgow-city-council-ons-s12000049)
- **Framework Ceiling (notional):** £39,900,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** 8 October 2024 at 12:00 BST
- **Lots:** 5
- **Procurement Method:** Open procedure
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Health and social work services, Social services, Social work and related services, Social work services, Social work services with accommodation
- **Delivery Location:** UKM82
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-0493ff`

## 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/framework-tender-for-fostering-families-and-adult-caring-households-continuing-care-and-af-ocds-h6vhtk-0493ff#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [publictendersscotland.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.publictendersscotland.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk%2Fesop%2Fpts-host%2Fpublic%2Fpts%2Fweb%2Flogin.html)
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/framework-tender-for-fostering-families-and-adult-caring-households-continuing-care-and-af-ocds-h6vhtk-0493ff#participate

## Description
A Framework is being established with Providers registered as Fostering Services and Adult Placement Services to secure future Fostering Families and Adult Caring Household provision for children and young people who require to be looked after and accommodated away from home. From this point on any reference to Bidder will mean the Provider Organisation who is bidding to provide Fostering Families and Adult Caring Household services, referred to hereafter for ease as Fostering Families.
following award, Glasgow City Council (the Council) will establish a multi-supplier Framework. The awarded Bidders and Fostering Families will play a key role in supporting the Council to meet its statutory duties in providing care and support to children and young people who need to be Looked After or Looked After and Accommodated in a family setting. Awarded Bidders will work in collaboration and close partnership with Social Work staff and key partner agencies, including NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) and Education services to deliver the outcomes for the children and young people as specified by the Council in the child or young person’s My Plan. Contract Duration: 3 Years, plus the option to extend for a further 1 year.
Awarded Bidders will be expected to recruit Fostering Families from within the Glasgow City boundary. Where this is not possible, and to ensure the most compatible match for the child or young person, recruitment of Fostering Families within a 20 mile radius of the Glasgow City boundary and beyond will be considered.

## Lots (5)
### Lot 1: Fostering Families
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** active
- **CPV codes:** 85000000, 85310000, 85311000, 85320000
- **Delivery regions:** UKM

- **Description:** The Lot tendered was for Fostering Family arrangements where there may be one or more child or young person, including the Fostering Family’s own children or other fostered children or young people being cared for, depending on the Foster Families’ r...

### Lot 2: Individual Fostering Families
- **Lot id:** `2`
- **Status:** active
- **CPV codes:** 85300000, 85310000, 85311000, 85320000
- **Delivery regions:** UKM

- **Description:** The Lot tendered was for the provision of individual Fostering Families which require the child or young person to be the only child or young person being cared for in the Fostering Family household. A key emphasis of the Fostering Family support is ...

### Lot 3: Adult Caring Households (Continuing Care and Aftercare)
- **Lot id:** `3`
- **Status:** active
- **CPV codes:** 85300000, 85310000, 85311000, 85320000
- **Delivery regions:** UKM

- **Description:** The awarded Lot covers the provision of care to a young person who was formerly looked after away from home between the ages of 16 and 18 but is now no longer a Looked After Child (LAC) and who has opted to remain in their current placement (Continui...

### Lot 4: Providers for Children and Young People with Complex Learning, Physical Disability and Mental Health Conditions
- **Lot id:** `4`
- **Status:** active
- **CPV codes:** 85300000, 85310000, 85311000, 85320000
- **Delivery regions:** UKM

- **Description:** The Lot awarded is for the provision of Foster Family and Adult Caring Household based care for children and young people with very complex care needs. This requires the provision of Foster Families and Adult Caring Households where the Carers recrui...

### Lot 5: Providers for Short Breaks (Respite)
- **Lot id:** `5`
- **Status:** active
- **CPV codes:** 85300000, 85310000, 85311000, 85320000
- **Delivery regions:** UKM

- **Description:** A provision to offer short-term, time-limited care in a one-off or standalone arrangement in response to urgent need, or as a planned regular arrangement to support a child or young person over a period of time, as agreed through the social work care...

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (4)
- **Award:** Fostering Families (active)
  - Award id: `007833-2025-1`
  - Supplier(s): **Aberlour Child Care Trust, Action for Children, Barnardo's Scotland (+5 more suppliers)**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-COH:04764232`, `GB-FTS-10962`, `GB-FTS-48208`, `GB-FTS-63980`, `GB-FTS-153084`, `GB-FTS-153086`, `GB-FTS-139752`, `GB-FTS-15109`
  - Value: £39,600,000 † (exc. VAT)

- **Award:** Individual Fostering Families (active)
  - Award id: `007833-2025-2`
  - Supplier(s): **Aberlour Child Care Trust, Action for Children, Barnardo's Scotland (+5 more suppliers)**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-COH:04764232`, `GB-FTS-10962`, `GB-FTS-48208`, `GB-FTS-63980`, `GB-FTS-153084`, `GB-FTS-153086`, `GB-FTS-139752`, `GB-FTS-15109`
  - Value: £39,600,000 † (exc. VAT)

- **Award:** Adult Caring Households (Continuing Care and Aftercare) (active)
  - Award id: `007833-2025-3`
  - Supplier(s): **Aberlour Child Care Trust, Action for Children, Barnardo's Scotland (+5 more suppliers)**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-COH:04764232`, `GB-FTS-10962`, `GB-FTS-48208`, `GB-FTS-63980`, `GB-FTS-153084`, `GB-FTS-153086`, `GB-FTS-139752`, `GB-FTS-15109`
  - Value: £39,600,000 † (exc. VAT)

- **Award:** Providers for Children and Young People with Complex Learning, Physical Disability and Mental Health Conditions (active)
  - Award id: `007833-2025-4`
  - Supplier(s): **Aberlour Child Care Trust, Carevisions Fostering ltd, Foster Care Associates Scotland (+4 more suppliers)**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-10962`, `GB-FTS-63980`, `GB-FTS-153084`, `GB-FTS-153086`, `GB-FTS-108267`, `GB-FTS-139752`, `GB-FTS-15109`
  - Value: £39,600,000 † (exc. VAT)

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

## Contracts (4)
- **Contract:** Fostering Families (active)
  - Signed Value: £39,600,000
  - Signed Date: 18/02/2025

- **Contract:** Individual Fostering Families (active)
  - Signed Value: £39,600,000
  - Signed Date: 18/02/2025

- **Contract:** Adult Caring Households (Continuing Care and Aftercare) (active)
  - Signed Value: £39,600,000
  - Signed Date: 18/02/2025

- **Contract:** Providers for Children and Young People with Complex Learning, Physical Disability and Mental Health Conditions (active)
  - Signed Value: £39,600,000
  - Signed Date: 18/02/2025

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F007833-2025)
- **Last Source Update:** 2025-03-04T12:30:18.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-26T21:27:59.844Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-0493ff