Official UK procurement notice
Lot 1 - Framework Agreement for Supported Living for Adults with Learning Disability in Norfolk
Authority: Norfolk County Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionNorfolk County Council established a multi supplier framework agreement for the provision of supported living accommodation and support. The framework will be for 5 years from January 2019, with the option to extend for up to a further 5 years; subject to agreement of Norfolk County Council with the service providers. The Council is subject to the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 and will be carrying out this procurement in accordance with the Light Touch Regime which applies to social services. We wish to reopen Lot 1 and invite new applicants to apply.Lots 1 - is for providers of support to adults with Learning Disabilities. This lot is aimed at enabling people and providing them with the opportunities to develop their skills, gain independence and to achieve their personal outcomes.If you have already been appointed to Lot 1 of this Framework, you do not need to reapply. This is for new providers only.
- Recurrence: This application is open for new applications
CPV: Health and social work services · Social work and related services
How this framework works
From the published notice- Places
- up to 100 suppliers
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1We wish to reopen Lot 1 and invite new applicants to apply.Lots 1 - is for providers…RenewalPublished value£200,000,000
We wish to reopen Lot 1 and invite new applicants to apply.Lots 1 - is for providers of support to adults with Learning Disabilities. This lot is aimed at enabling people and providing them with the opportunities to develop their skills, gain independence and to achieve their personal outcomes. Additional information: We reserve the right to update the framework agreement and all schedules or to add new lots where requirements have not been identified at the outset of this framework.
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 award criteria (2)
- Quality: 100
- Price: 0
- “Lot 1 - Framework Agreement for Supported Living for Adults with…” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, up to 100 suppliers, not a single contract.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How Norfolk County Council buys Health and social work services (CPV 85), and who usually turns up
Norfolk County Council’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. This notice is a framework or DPS, so only frameworks and DPS are compared. 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.
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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 East of England.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in East of 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 81 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.
The market share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
Awards are recorded, but published direct routes and bid counts do not establish this buyer’s share.
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% / 8%
2–30% / 7%
4–60% / 17%
7+100% / 68%
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 notice sets up a supplier panel and a ceiling value; what the work actually costs is agreed later, on each call-off or mini-competition, and those publish as contract notices of their own. The award-vs-estimate record of this market therefore sits on the call-offs; this page shows it on the contracts, not on the panel that frames them.
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 #1We wish to reopen Lot 1 and invite new applicants to apply.Lots 1 - is for providers…Published estimate£200m
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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.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid0%
2–31%
4–62%
7+97%
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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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| Royal Mencap SocietyEarlier contract | Adult Life Opportunities Lot 1 Adults with Learning Disabilities and/or Autismnotice published Dec 2023 | Adult Life Opportunities Framework Agreement Lot 1 Adults with Learning Disabilities and/or Autism | — | Matched as the earlier contract |
| Volunteering MattersEarlier contract | Adult Life Opportunities Lot 1 Adults with Learning Disabilities and/or Autismnotice published Dec 2023 | Adult Life Opportunities Framework Agreement Lot 1 Adults with Learning Disabilities and/or Autism | — | Matched as the earlier contract |
| BreakForth Mental Health Support ServicesEarlier contract | Adult Life Opportunities Lot 1 Adults with Learning Disabilities and/or Autismnotice published Dec 2023 | Adult Life Opportunities Framework Agreement for Adults with Learning Disabilities and/or Autism | — | Matched as the earlier contract |
| New Beginnings (Wisbech) LtdEarlier contract | Adult Life Opportunities Lot 1 Adults with Learning Disabilities and/or Autismnotice published Dec 2023 | Adult Life Opportunities Framework Agreement for Adults with Learning Disabilities and/or Autism | — | Matched as the earlier contract |
| Utopia Care LtdEarlier contract | Adult Life Opportunities Lot 1 Adults with Learning Disabilities and/or Autismnotice published Dec 2023 | Adult Life Opportunities Framework Agreement for Adults with Learning Disabilities and/or Autism | — | 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.
| Supplier | Won in this category | Live contracts | Award vs estimate |
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| £4.0m1 awards in 36m · last 35 months ago | None on file | 7% below n=2 | |
| — | None on file | at estimate n=1 | |
| £378m56 awards in 36m · last 1 months ago | 11 live · £244m 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=9 | |
PSS (UK)Large | £32m8 awards in 36m · last 1 months ago | 3 live · £4.3m 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=3 |
| £35m21 awards in 36m · last 2 months ago | 14 live · £61m 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=15 |
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 · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Open admission
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- 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
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Yes · This application is open for new applications
- First published
- 25 Apr 2023, 15:42 BST
- Last source update
- 25 Apr 2023, 15:42 BST
- Award evaluation window
- 31 Dec 2028 – …
- Authority reference
NCCT41317.1.OPEN- FTS notice number
2023/S 000-011863- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-03c410Find a Tender
- Electronic trading
- e-invoicing allowed · electronic ordering · electronic payment
Publisher note: We reserve the right to update the framework agreement and all schedules or to add new lots where requirements have not been identified at the outset of this framework. If we update any documents or add new lots in this way we will issue a notice to all Providers already on the framework stating that a new specification/lot is available and give all providers already on the framework an opportunity to state whether they wish to provide the new requirement. The framework is for 5 years from January 2019, with the option to extend for up to a further 5 years subject to agreement of Norfolk County Council with the service providers. The Council is subject to the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 and will be carrying out this procurement in accordance with the Light Touch Regime which applies to social services. The amount quoted is an estimate, usage will be based on need. If you would like to know more about this procurement, then please register on our etendering system (in-tend) (if you have not so already) and in the tenders section express interest in project NCCT41317.1.OPEN To register on the system go to http://in-tendhost.co.uk/norfolkcc. It is the Council's intention to keep new applications open to the framework and increase capacity in the market. The framework agreement differs from those let under the non light touch regime in that the Council, exercising its flexibility, may let the framework agreements for longer than 4 years and may periodically open the framework for new applicants and/or add new lots. The Council intends to let this framework under Regulations 74 to 77 of the Public Contract Regulations 2015 (Light Touch Regime) under which the Council has flexibility as to the process or procedure to be used when purchasing certain services of which this is one.
How to participate & submission route
Official notice- Requests to participate (first stage)
- —
- Appointment period ends
- 31 Dec 2028
- Clarification deadline
- —
- Submission channel
- {"written"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bids opened
- 31 Dec 2028
Timeline
25 Apr 2023 → 31 Dec 2028 · 3 dates- Notice published25 Apr 2023, 15:42 BST
- Today22 Oct 2026
- Admission / appointment period endsperiod end, not a bid countdown31 Dec 2028
- Bids opened31 Dec 2028
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
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- NP Law - Norfolk County CouncilMediation body
- Norfolk County Council - Head of ProcurementReview body
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Technical selection criteria
- Economic and financial selection criteria