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Innovation Accelerator for Social Care business challenges

Buyer: Oxfordshire County Council →

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BuyerOxfordshire County Council
StatusClosed
Deadline24 Oct 2025
Value£1,500,000
Published28 Sept 2025

What is being bought

Innovate Oxfordshire (part of Oxfordshire County Council) is proud to announce the initiation of a competitive flexible procedure (CFP) tender process, in alignment with our Local Government Accelerator - the first of its kind in the UK, with it's first Call to Action focused specifically on Adult Social Care. The Accelerator is designed to fast-track innovation within local government by supporting the development, testing, and scaling of transformative solutions that meet real-world challenges. By fostering collaboration between Local Authorities, Innovators, and Sector Experts, the Accelerator plays a critical role in improving outcomes for residents, reducing system pressures, and enabling smarter, more sustainable service delivery. The CFP has three stages as shown below and suppliers will be selected/deselected at each stage by reference to the evaluation criteria defined in the ITT. Stage 1 - Participation stage Stage 2 - Presentation and demonstration stage Stage 3 - Proof of Concept (POC) trial Tenderers that are short-listed to participate in the POC trial will be expected to operate their proposed solution, at their cost, for a period of 12 weeks. The Council is not obligated to Contract any solution proposed The Council tender documents will be published on its e-tendering portal called Proactis and hosted on the South East Business Portal found at https://sebp.due-north.com/

Delivery location

UKJ14, GB

Categories

IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support 72000000

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statusactive
Value£1,500,000
Contract periodFrom 1 Jun 2026 to 31 May 2029
SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

Award criteria
Quality - Pass Fail — Pass/Fail - participation criteria Applicable to all Tenderers responses to Part 1 and also subsequent stages if they are selected
Price — Indicative pricing This criteria will only be used for Tenderers selected to participate in Stage 2 of the CFP as defined in the ITT
Quality - Scored (Technical) — Scored criteria for Technical This will be used at Stage 1 of the CFP as identified in the ITT
Quality - Proof of Concept (POC) — Assessment of outcomes of POC trial and benefit generated This criteria will only be used for Tenderers selected to particpate in Stage 3 of the CFP as defined in the ITT
Quality - Presentation and demonstration — This criteria will only be used for Tenderers selected to participate in Stage 2 of the CFP as defined in the ITT

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and supportNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 72. The category anchor is IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support (72000000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison setProceduresReported bids per procedureNamed award suppliersPrice evidence
Market: CPV division 729,0201 median · 14 average (3,523 of 9,020 with a bid count)1.9 average (4,227 of 9,020 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer5Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Delivery region: UKJ14621.5 median · 3.9 average (20 of 62 with a bid count)1.3 average (23 of 62 with named award suppliers)Not published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)5174 median · 12.7 average (3 of 517 with a bid count)2.7 average (3 of 517 with named award suppliers)Not published

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Price-outcome signal

Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementNot published
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimeNot published
Covered byNot published
Submission policyallowed
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents0
Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Documents & submission route

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-052bee
Latest release ID060333-2025
Latest release timestampSun Sep 28 2025 11:06:58 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLhttps://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/060333-2025
Tender statusactive
Procurement methodopen
Procurement method detailsCompetitive flexible procedure
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdYes
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: end2025-10-24T12:00:00+01:00
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadline2025-10-16T18:00:00+01:00
Award period: startNot published
Award period: end2026-05-18T23:59:59+01:00
Submission method detailsThe Council uses an e-tendering system called Proactis which is hosted on the South East Business Portal. It can be accessed via the following link South East Business Portal. https://sebp.due-north.com/ All of the documentation and communications for this opportunity will be/has been issued via this e-tendering Portal located under reference DN775676. Please use the messaging functionality within the Portal to raise any clarification question(s) regarding this ITT To use the portal Tenderers must be registered on the Portal. If not registered this is a simple process that can be undertaken from the landing page of the above site
Submission languagesen
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender value£1,500,000
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source2
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release1

Notice history

DateEventReference
28 Sept 2025tender060333-2025
28 Sept 2025planningUpdate060332-2025
29 Jul 2025planning043796-2025
4 Jun 2025planning029666-2025

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

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29 Jul 2025 · 043796-2025 · planning
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4 Jun 2025 · 029666-2025 · planning
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