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# How do we better understand supply and demand of school age childcare in communities?

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/how-do-we-better-understand-supply-and-demand-of-school-age-childcare-in-communities-ocds-h6vhtk-02bb9a). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Notice summary:** Our challenge is data-focussed, relating to a high profile new commitment for this parliamentary term to design and build an accessible, affordable and flexible system of school age childcare provision in Scotland. In order to design a system that works for most people we need to understand what children’s and parent’s needs are in relation to childcare (as well as access to activities). We also need to understand the school age childcare landscape better: What’s currently happening?

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [Scottish Government](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/scottish-government-GB-PPON-PVCB-3739-TNGL)
- **Published Value:** £250,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** 9 July 2021 at 12:00 BST
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Open procedure
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Health and social work services, IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
- **Delivery Location:** UKM
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **Awarded Value:** £175,000 (exc. VAT, 1 contract)
- **Official Documents:** 2 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/how-do-we-better-understand-supply-and-demand-of-school-age-childcare-in-communities-ocds-h6vhtk-02bb9a#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-02bb9a`

## Before you bid
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- **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/how-do-we-better-understand-supply-and-demand-of-school-age-childcare-in-communities-ocds-h6vhtk-02bb9a#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk%2F)
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/how-do-we-better-understand-supply-and-demand-of-school-age-childcare-in-communities-ocds-h6vhtk-02bb9a#participate

## Description
Our challenge is data-focussed, relating to a high profile new commitment for this parliamentary term to design and build an accessible, affordable and flexible system of school age childcare provision in Scotland.
In order to design a system that works for most people we need to understand what children’s and parent’s needs are in relation to childcare (as well as access to activities).
We also need to understand the school age childcare landscape better: What’s currently happening? What are children doing round about the school day?  How much of this is related to childcare needs and how dependent is this on the range of resources available within a community? How are choices limited by cost, location or accessibility challenges?
Data is central to this challenge because of the complexities of different families’ needs, and the range of different possible providers, but a snap shot in time of data will not solve this challenge alone. To help us to design a sustainable policy approach in this area we want a solution which helps us to understand both the national picture and what school age childcare needs are at a community level, and on an ongoing basis. We would like to explore solutions which can build on the baseline of understanding we already have, and then both inform our future policy approach and ultimately help us design a system in which local providers understand demand in the communities they serve, and families can access local school age childcare which meets their needs.
Please visit our website for information on CivTech and how to get involved
https://www.civtechalliance.org/civtech-6-how-to-apply

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 85000000
- **Delivery regions:** UKM

- **Description:** CivTech’s mission is to drive daring and innovation in the public sector by collaboratively solving challenges that make people’s lives better – and in doing so create generations of sustainable, high growth businesses.
CivTech brings together public...

- **Renewal published:** yes

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (1)
- **Award:** 020912-2022-1 (active)

  - Supplier(s): **Caerus Opportunities Limited**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-60320`
  - Value: £175,000 † (exc. VAT)

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

## Contracts (1)
- **Contract:** 020912-2022-1 (active)
  - Signed Value: £175,000
  - Signed Date: 24/03/2022

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F020912-2022)
- **Last Source Update:** 2022-08-01T08:41:59.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-11-02T02:18:20.922Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-02bb9a