Official UK procurement notice
Invitation to Preliminary Market Engagement Sandwell Reablement Service
Authority: Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionReablement Services.
Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council (SMBC) are currently seeking to understand current market capacity, learn from existing reablement models, identify service barriers and opportunities, explore innovation and best practice, and inform a future tender specifications for a new reablement service in Sandwell.
The service will provide Reablement services to eligible adults (18 years old and over) aimed at enabling individuals:
- To safely leave hospital where they would otherwise remain in hospital or avoid a hospital admission and remain in their own home or place of residence;
- Provide a short term, time limited (up to 6 weeks) Reablement Service for Adults who have been assessed and have demonstrated the potential to benefit from home care reablement to regain their independence and live well at home after an illness, injury or period of reduced mobility
We would be most grateful to receive your feedback as a care provider, share your experience and/or thoughts on how you this may work and what would make you want to apply.
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 Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council buys Health and social work services (CPV 85), and who usually turns up
Sandwell Metropolitan Borough 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) →
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 less of this buyer’s work than the market’s: 37% against 68%, n=76.
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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 West Midlands.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in West Midlands.
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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 41 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 bid0% / 17%
2–340% / 22%
4–633% / 18%
7+27% / 43%
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 estimate22% / 29%
Within ±2%67% / 64%
Above estimate11% / 7%
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 #1Estimate not published
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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 2,768 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid17%
2–322%
4–618%
7+43%
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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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| Proline Care LimitedEarlier contract | SANDWELL PROMOTING INDEPENDENCE REABLEMENT SERVICEended Jun 2026 | — | £9.2m | Matched as the earlier contract |
| Caring Care LimitedEarlier contract | SANDWELL PROMOTING INDEPENDENCE REABLEMENT SERVICEended Jun 2026 | — | £9.2m | Matched as the earlier contract |
| Sage Care LimitedEarlier contract | SANDWELL PROMOTING INDEPENDENCE REABLEMENT SERVICEended Jun 2026 | — | £9.2m | Matched as the earlier contract |
| Awarding Care LtdEarlier contract | SANDWELL PROMOTING INDEPENDENCE REABLEMENT SERVICEended Jun 2026 | — | £9.2m | Matched as the earlier contract |
| Cherish Home Care LtdEarlier contract | SANDWELL PROMOTING INDEPENDENCE REABLEMENT SERVICEended Jun 2026 | — | £9.2m | 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.
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
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Light touch regime
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 2 Sept 2026, 14:54 BST
- Last source update
- 2 Sept 2026, 14:54 BST
- Authority reference
ASC154- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-083117- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06f07bFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
2 Sept 2026 → 3 Jun 2027 · 4 dates- Planning notice published48 days ago2 Sept 2026, 14:54 BST
- Market engagement20 days ago30 Sept 2026, 23:59 BST
If you would like to take part in this market engagement online questionnaire please email the Contracts Team at the following email address (please note the underscore between Contracts and Team). Please mention Reablement Questionnaire.
The online questionnaire will close on 30th September 2026 at 1pm.
Thank you for your interest.
- Today20 Oct 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 48 days7 Dec 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 225 days3 Jun 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published2 Sept 2026, 14:54 BSTUK2
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- 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 (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender