Official UK procurement notice
Holiday Activities with Food Schemes Framework 2027-2031
Authority: Hampshire County Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThis project is for the tender of an Open register of suppliers for the provision of funded Holiday Activities and Food Schemes (HAF).
The Department for Education (DfE) funded Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) Programme will deliver healthy free holiday activities for benefits-eligible Free School Meal children. Programme guidance includes an opportunity for the Authority to use 5% of projected budget underspend on half-term holiday periods.
The DfE HAF programme aims to ensure there are quality schemes that result in children
and young people:
- receiving healthy and nutritious meals
- maintaining a healthy level of physical activity
- being happy, having fun and meeting new friends
- developing a greater understanding of food, nutrition, and other health-related issues
- taking part in fun and engaging activities that support their development.
- feeling safe and secure
- getting access to the right support services
- returning to school feeling engaged and ready to learn
Families can also benefit, when HAF providers include their needs in planning and
delivering their programme. This could be through:
- providing opportunities to get involved in sessions, eg cookery classes
- ensuring they are signposted towards other sources of information and support, such
as health services or employment and education opportunities
The local authorities’ additional aims for the Programme are:
- to have outstanding signposting support for participating children and their families
- to have genuinely inclusive provision with no child turned away due to their additional
needs
- to strengthen partnership working within local areas
- to increase prosperity by encouraging recruitment of local workers
The HAF Programme is targeted towards children and young people who attend school, aged 4-16, in receipt of benefits-related free school meals.
Hampshire County Council require providers to have high regard to safeguarding and all bidders must evidence compliance with robust safeguarding practices. The Local Authority also requires providers to have high regard to access and inclusion and bidders must be able to evidence that they have robust policies and inclusive practice in place.
CPV: Children's holiday-camp services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedWhat 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).
- “Holiday Activities with Food Schemes Framework 2027-2031” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Hampshire County Council buys Holiday centre and holiday home services (CPV 5524), and who usually turns up
Hampshire County Council’s published record next to the market for the same work. Compared with other frameworks and DPS only. Whole-market view: Holiday centre and holiday home services (CPV 5524) →
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.
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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.
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.
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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 20 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 bid10% / 23%
2–322% / 15%
4–618% / 31%
7+50% / 31%
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 price is set later, on each call-off.
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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
Our matching links this notice to “Holiday Activity and Food Schemes” of this authority, but none of the 3 panel members sit in a category matching this notice.
Lot #1CPV 5524No real estimate
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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 26 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid15%
2–319%
4–623%
7+42%
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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.
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.
48% 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.
48% title match.
A past supplier may not bid again.
The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (48% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid
Holiday Activity and Food Schemes — held by https://www.hants.gov.uk/business/procurement/childrens-services-open-framework-contractors and https://www.hants.gov.uk/business/procurement/childrens-services-open-framework-contractors (+1 more); the published contract ends 2 Jan 2023.
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
- Light touch regime
- Commercial structure
- Framework agreement
- Who may use this agreement
- Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 12 Jun 2026, 10:29 BST
- Last source update
- 12 Jun 2026, 10:29 BST
- Authority reference
CS28672- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-055556- Latest notice
- Pipeline notice (UK1)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06b3c4Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Appointment period ends
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Timeline
12 Jun 2026 → 1 Jul 2027 · 3 dates- Planning notice published137 days ago12 Jun 2026, 10:29 BST
- Today28 Oct 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 155 days1 Apr 2027, 23:59 BST
- Contract startsin 245 days1 Jul 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Pipeline notice published12 Jun 2026, 10:29 BSTUK1
Commercial outcome & contract awards
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Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
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