Official UK procurement notice
Market Engagement Event - Framework for the Provision of Inclusion Services
Authority: City & County of Swansea (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionSwansea Council wishes to engage with providers that capable of delivering educational, vocational, therapeutic, engagement and wellbeing services for children and young people who require support beyond that ordinarily available within a maintained school. It replaces the existing EOTAS Framework and broadens access to approved provision across Swansea schools, Swansea PRU, local authority inclusion services and other authorised Council services. This notice is to commence engagement with the market and providers who offer an alternative education for the young people of Swansea.
CPV: Primary education services · Secondary education services
How this framework works
From the published notice- Framework period
- 4 yrs · up to 7 yrs from 1 Jan 2027
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).
- “Market Engagement Event - Framework for the Provision of Inclusion…” 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 City & County of Swansea buys Primary education services (CPV 8010), and who usually turns up
City & County of Swansea’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: Primary education services (CPV 8010) →
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 Wales (Cymru).
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in Wales (Cymru).
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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 55 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.
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% / 0%
2–322% / 25%
4–624% / 56%
7+54% / 19%
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.
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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
Lot #1CPV 8010Published estimate£6.5m
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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 16 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid0%
2–325%
4–656%
7+19%
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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.
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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.
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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
- 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
- 22 May 2025, 18:30 BST
- Last source update
- 28 Sept 2026, 16:34 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-091577- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-051f79Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Appointment period ends
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Timeline
22 May 2025 → 1 Jan 2027 · 5 dates- Planning notice published22 May 2025, 18:30 BST
- Latest notice published24 days ago28 Sept 2026, 16:34 BST
- Market engagement3 days ago19 Oct 2026, 23:59 BST
The Council's strategic ambition is to strengthen inclusive practice and provide earlier intervention, enhanced engagement and flexible learning opportunities that enable children and young people to remain connected to education, make progress in learning and achieve positive outcomes.
The Council wishes to work with provider who will promote:
- Inclusion and participation in education;
- Learner engagement, belonging and wellbeing;
- Early intervention and prevention;
- Partnership working between schools, providers and services;
- High-quality curriculum and vocational pathways;
- Safe, quality-assured commissioned provision;
- Reintegration, progression and post-16 preparation.
Providers will be required to demonstrate a commitment to inclusion, learner-centred practice and the development of positive relationships that support engagement and wellbeing.
Providers shall recognise that many learners accessing the Framework will have experienced disrupted education, anxiety, emotionally based school avoidance, trauma, exclusion, additional learning needs, adverse childhood experiences, social vulnerability or other barriers to learning.
Swansea Council would like to invite existing and potential providers interested in delivering these services to take part in our virtual market engagement event. The purpose of this event will be:
- To share information on the aims and objectives of the Framework
- To share information on the context for the delivery of services.
- To outline the procurement approach
Registration Details:
- The event will be held on Monday 19th October 2026 at 11:00am – 12:00pm.
- Please register your interest by emailing [email protected] before Monday 12th October 2026 to enable a TEAM’s invite link to be sent to you.
This event will be delivered virtually via Microsoft Teams and we recommend that you join via a laptop/desktop so that it will be easier for you to type and use chat functionality.
Participation in this market engagement exercise is not a mandatory requirement for participating in any potential future procurement; however, responses received will assist Swansea Council in the development of any future tender documents and inform as to the level of interest from the market.
This notice is not a call for competition.
Swansea Council reserves the right to withdraw from undertaking a tender process at any point.
- Today22 Oct 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 11 days2 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 70 days1 Jan 2027
Notice history
2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 22 May 2025- Pipeline notice published22 May 2025, 18:30 BSTUK1
- Preliminary market engagement notice published28 Sept 2026, 16:34 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 (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Pipeline notice Pipeline notice on Find a Tender