Official UK procurement notice
Healthy Child Programme (HCP) Connected Parents
Authority: Wigan Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionWigan Council's Public Health Team requires x1 provider to deliver a proposed service that will provide a community-based offer for parents, carers and families of children and young people aged 0-19 years, and up to 25 years for young people with SEND, with a particular focus on the first 1001 days and adolescence as key developmental periods. The service will be centred around 5 key areas.
- Parenting Confidence and Family Relationships - Supporting parents and carers to build confidence, strengthen relationships with their children and young people, develop peer connections and access opportunities for shared learning through all stages of childhood and adolescence.
- Infant Feeding, Food and Nutrition - Delivering a community-based infant feeding offer through paid peer support, alongside activities that promote healthy nutrition, responsive feeding, oral health and access to community food resources.
- Key Transitions and Development - Increasing confidence and community connections during important developmental stages including pregnancy, transition to parenthood, the first 1001 days, school transitions, adolescence and transition to adulthood for young people with SEND.
- Community Capacity and Connected Communities - Developing volunteering opportunities, peer support networks, parent leadership and community participation, helping families become more connected to neighbourhood assets, opportunities and services.
- VCFSE Development and Community Wealth Building - Supporting the growth and sustainability of the local voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise (VCFSE) sector through partnership working, mentoring, coaching, micro-commissioning and community capacity building. A key ambition is to leave stronger community infrastructure and local capability at the end of the contract than existed at mobilisation.
The approach will complement the existing Public Health Nursing and Family Hub offer, strengthening community connectedness, parental confidence, participation, infant feeding, healthy nutrition and community capacity. A key ambition of the commission is to work alongside and strengthen the local Voluntary, Community, Faith and Social Enterprise (VCFSE) sector through partnership working, community development, mentoring and market-shaping approaches.
- Not divided into lots: The contract will be best delivered from an operational perspective by concentrating on one provider. However, it must be noted that this contractual service does promote the successful provider to work with/micro-commission local providers such as VCSEs. Please see above description for further detail (Along with tender pack on e-procurement platform, The Chest).
- The authority expects to re-tender this requirement around 12 Oct 2031, 23:59 BST.
CPV: Health and social work services · Other community, social and personal services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1Published value£1,250,000
- Economic & financial standing
Legal Capacity:
Insurance Requirements: The successful bidder must be willing to obtain by the start of the contract, the levels of insurance cover indicated below:
a) Employer's (Compulsory) Liability Insurance = £10,000,000 for each and every occurrence;
b) Public Liability Insurance = £10,000,000 for each and every occurrence, &;
c) Professional Indemnity Insurance = £2,000,000 for each and every occurrence.
Data Protection/GDPR - The successful provider must have in place by the award of the contract, the human and technical resources to perform the contract to ensure compliance with the UK General Data Protection Regulation and to ensure the protection of the rights of data subjects.
Data Protection/GDPR - The successful provider must confirm that its organisation has appropriate policies, procedures, workforce training and technical measures in place to comply with UK GDPR and Data Protection legislation and to protect personal information relating to children, young people, parents, carers, volunteers and staff.
Data Protection/GDPR - The successful provider must provide a brief summary of the above referenced arrangements, including: Data protection governance; workforce training; information security arrangements; management of data breaches and subject access request processes.
- Technical & professional ability
Relevant Experience and Contract Examples -
Please provide details of up to two contracts to meet conditions of participation relating to technical ability set out in the relevant notice or procurement documents, in any combination from either the public or private sectors (which may include samples of grant-funded work).
Organisational Standards - Please describe any relevant quality standards, frameworks, training programmes or accreditation schemes that support your delivery of this service, including arrangements relating to infant feeding support, safeguarding, volunteer management and workforce development.
Health & Safety (H&S) -
(a) Please confirm that your organisation has appropriate Health and Safety policies and procedures in place, &;
(b) Please describe how Health and Safety will be managed during delivery of this service.
Safeguarding - Please describe your safeguarding arrangements and how these will be applied to delivery of the Connected Parents service.
Safeguarding - Please confirm that your organisation, will comply with both the Wigan Council Adult Safeguarding and Wigan Council's Safeguarding Policies.
Children's: www.wigan.gov.uk/WSCB/index.aspx ↗
Adults: www.wigan.gov.uk/Resident/Health-Soci… ↗
Modern Slavery Statement (or equivalent statement/document).
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).
Published sub-criteria (4)
- Quality Questions: 40%
- Interview: 20%
- Pricing: 25%
- Social Value: 15%
Published award criteria (4)
- Quality Questions
- Pricing
- Social Value
- Interview
- Economic & financial standing
Legal Capacity:
Insurance Requirements: The successful bidder must be willing to obtain by the start of the contract, the levels of insurance cover indicated below:
a) Employer's (Compulsory) Liability Insurance = £10,000,000 for each and every occurrence;
b) Public Liability Insurance = £10,000,000 for each and every occurrence, &;
c) Professional Indemnity Insurance = £2,000,000 for each and every occurrence.
Data Protection/GDPR - The successful provider must have in place by the award of the contract, the human and technical resources to perform the contract to ensure compliance with the UK General Data Protection Regulation and to ensure the protection of the rights of data subjects.
Data Protection/GDPR - The successful provider must confirm that its organisation has appropriate policies, procedures, workforce training and technical measures in place to comply with UK GDPR and Data Protection legislation and to protect personal information relating to children, young people, parents, carers, volunteers and staff.
Data Protection/GDPR - The successful provider must provide a brief summary of the above referenced arrangements, including: Data protection governance; workforce training; information security arrangements; management of data breaches and subject access request processes.
- Technical & professional ability
Relevant Experience and Contract Examples -
Please provide details of up to two contracts to meet conditions of participation relating to technical ability set out in the relevant notice or procurement documents, in any combination from either the public or private sectors (which may include samples of grant-funded work).
Organisational Standards - Please describe any relevant quality standards, frameworks, training programmes or accreditation schemes that support your delivery of this service, including arrangements relating to infant feeding support, safeguarding, volunteer management and workforce development.
Health & Safety (H&S) -
(a) Please confirm that your organisation has appropriate Health and Safety policies and procedures in place, &;
(b) Please describe how Health and Safety will be managed during delivery of this service.
Safeguarding - Please describe your safeguarding arrangements and how these will be applied to delivery of the Connected Parents service.
Safeguarding - Please confirm that your organisation, will comply with both the Wigan Council Adult Safeguarding and Wigan Council's Safeguarding Policies.
Children's: www.wigan.gov.uk/WSCB/index.aspx ↗
Adults: www.wigan.gov.uk/Resident/Health-Soci… ↗
Modern Slavery Statement (or equivalent statement/document).
- Price carries 25 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 2.5 points. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.
- Turnover usually expected at this size: about £499,726 (twice the annual value).
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula. Turnover is an indicative market norm (≈2× annual value), not a published condition.
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 published market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Health and social work services (CPV 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.
Here, local means registered in North West England.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in North West 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 59 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.
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.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid0% / 17%
2–344% / 33%
4–633% / 29%
7+22% / 21%
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 estimate29% / 29%
Within ±2%41% / 61%
Above estimate29% / 10%
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See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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Lot #1Published estimate£1.3m
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How many bids this lot may attract.
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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 bid5%
2–358%
4–630%
7+7%
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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.
Based on 298 comparable awards. Each lot reflects its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative.
A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.
Middle 50%£1.2m–£1.2m
Estimate£1.3m
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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| Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation TrustEarlier contract | Healthy Child Programme 0-19 Servicenotice published Mar 2024 | — | £12m | Matched as the earlier contract |
| Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation TrustWorked for this buyer | PSR005 - 0-19 Services: Healthy Child Programmenotice published Mar 2026 | — | — | Similar wording and category |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| £469m7 awards in 36m · last 12 months ago | None on file | no comparable pairs | |
| £2.2bn29 awards in 36m · last 1 months ago | 4 live · £7.0m 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. | 15% below n=4 | |
| £743m14 awards in 36m · last 2 months ago | 6 live · £297m 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=5 | |
| £700m36 awards in 36m · last 2 months ago | 2 live · £15m 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=1 | |
Barnardo'sLarge | £167m83 awards in 36m · last this month | 31 live · £87m 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=38 |
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.
43% 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.
43% title match.
A past supplier may not bid again.
The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (43% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid
Healthy Child Programme 0-19 Service — held by Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust; no contract end date published.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Open 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
- Yes · next expected 12 Oct 2031
- First published
- 13 Aug 2026, 15:27 BST
- Last source update
- 12 Oct 2026, 22:34 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 4 Jan 2027
- Authority reference
PA 134- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-096326- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06e3d2Find a Tender
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Submit via ProContract (Due North)- Requests to participate (first stage)
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- Tender submission deadline
- 13 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 28 Oct 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
13 Aug 2026 → 18 Jan 2027 · 7 dates- Planning notice published70 days ago13 Aug 2026, 15:27 BST
- Market engagement30 days ago21 Sept 2026, 23:59 BST
Event Details
Date: Monday 21 September
Time: 10:00am to 12:00pm
Venue: St Peter's Pavilion, Hindley
Registration
Organisations wishing to attend should register by emailing:
Please include:
- Name
- Organisation
- Job title
- Contact email address
- Tender notice published9 days ago12 Oct 2026, 22:34 BST
- Today22 Oct 2026
- Clarification questions byin 7 days28 Oct 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Submission deadlinein 22 days13 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Award decision expected byin 75 days4 Jan 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 88 days18 Jan 2027
Notice history
6 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 13 Aug 2026- Preliminary market engagement notice published13 Aug 2026, 15:27 BSTUK2
- Tender notice published12 Oct 2026, 22:34 BSTUK4
- Published value published: £1,250,00012 Oct 2026, 22:34 BST
- Status changed to active12 Oct 2026, 22:34 BST
- Procurement method changed12 Oct 2026, 22:34 BST
- Deadline published: 13 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT12 Oct 2026, 22:34 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
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender