Official UK procurement notice
Gloucestershire Refugee Support Service
Authority: Gloucestershire County Council- (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionGloucestershire County Council is looking to go to open market in August 2026 to procure a contract for the provision of support services for refugees and would like to invite prospective tenderers to attend a market engagement event via MS Teams on 23rd July 2026, where details of the procurement process, indicative dates and requirement details will be presented.
The event will be from 11am to 12pm online via MS Teams. The number of representatives will be limited to two people from each organisation. An MS Teams link will be sent to organisations attending.
If you are interested in attending, please provide details to Loveness Chitiyo via email to [email protected], noting the following:
Name and role of each person attending
Organisation name
Email address of each person attending
Mobile phone number of each person attending
Please send confirmation of attendees by 22nd July 2026.
Below is a short description of the Contract.
The aim of the Service is to provide a personalised, holistic support service, which delivers hope and optimism for eligible refugees by:
Providing a warm welcome into a comfortable, safe home
Supporting them to adapt to life in the UK and the Gloucestershire community
Building their independence and self-reliance therefore giving them the opportunity to prosper, be healthy, safe and well.
In brief, the new support service for refugees will:
Tailor support to individuals and families
Provide intensive support earlier on in the contract and gradually taper it off as the contract progresses.
Identify those individuals and/or families that may need ongoing support due to vulnerabilities post scheme expiration
Seek to build resilience and independence in every intervention and element of service design, undertaking a strengths-based approach to support planning.
Support will be delivered in a person-centred and trauma-informed way, building on individuals' existing strengths and talents to promote wellbeing, empowerment, and resilience.
Enhance the ability of mainstream services to support migrants rather than duplicating services or adding additional pressure.
Underpin caseworker support with support in locality hubs and services within local communities.
Support community development and ongoing services that support migrants to integrate.
Be supported by, and integrated with, existing migrant communities.
CPV: Health and social work services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewal
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Gloucestershire County Council buys Health and social work services (CPV 85), and who usually turns up
Gloucestershire 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. Small firms win more of this buyer’s work than the market’s: 81% against 45%, n=85.
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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 South 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. More of this buyer’s work stays local than in this market: 98% against 49%, n=108.
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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 38 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.
Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.
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 bid35% / 22%
2–335% / 38%
4–624% / 23%
7+6% / 18%
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 estimate27% / 32%
Within ±2%73% / 66%
Above estimate0% / 2%
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 85Estimate not published
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 240 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid22%
2–338%
4–623%
7+18%
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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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| Gloucestershire Action for Refugees and Asylum Seekers (GARAS)Earlier contract | Gloucestershire Refugee Resettlement Programmenotice published Mar 2026 | — | £440k | 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.
What this replaces i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
40% title match.
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.
40% title match.
A past supplier may not bid again.
The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (40% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid
Gloucestershire Refugee Resettlement Programme — held by Gloucestershire Action for Refugees and Asylum Seekers (GARAS); no contract end date published.
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
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 14 Jul 2026, 10:22 BST
- Last source update
- 14 Jul 2026, 10:22 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-065996- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06ca73Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
14 Jul 2026 → 1 Jan 2027 · 4 dates- Planning notice published103 days ago14 Jul 2026, 10:22 BST
- Market engagement92 days ago24 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST
Gloucestershire County Council is looking to go to open market in August 2026 to procure a contract for the provision of support services for refugees and would like to invite prospective tenderers to attend a market engagement event via MS Teams on 23rd July 2026, where details of the procurement process, indicative dates and requirement details will be presented.
The event will be from 11am to 12pm online via MS Teams. The number of representatives will be limited to two people from each organisation. An MS Teams link will be sent to organisations attending.
If you are interested in attending, please provide details to Loveness Chitiyo via email to [email protected], noting the following:
Name and role of each person attending
Organisation name
Email address of each person attending
Mobile phone number of each person attending
Please send confirmation of attendees by 22nd July 2026.
Below is a short description of the Contract.
The aim of the Service is to provide a personalised, holistic support service, which delivers hope and optimism for eligible refugees by:
Providing a warm welcome into a comfortable, safe home
Supporting them to adapt to life in the UK and the Gloucestershire community
Building their independence and self-reliance therefore giving them the opportunity to prosper, be healthy, safe and well.
In brief, the new support service for refugees will:
Tailor support to individuals and families
Provide intensive support earlier on in the contract and gradually taper it off as the contract progresses.
Identify those individuals and/or families that may need ongoing support due to vulnerabilities post scheme expiration
Seek to build resilience and independence in every intervention and element of service design, undertaking a strengths-based approach to support planning.
Support will be delivered in a person-centred and trauma-informed way, building on individuals' existing strengths and talents to promote wellbeing, empowerment, and resilience.
Enhance the ability of mainstream services to support migrants rather than duplicating services or adding additional pressure.
Underpin caseworker support with support in locality hubs and services within local communities.
Support community development and ongoing services that support migrants to integrate.
Be supported by, and integrated with, existing migrant communities.
- Tender notice expected68 days ago17 Aug 2026, 23:59 BST
- Today25 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 68 days1 Jan 2027
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published14 Jul 2026, 10:22 BSTUK2
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
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- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
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Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender