Official UK procurement notice
Market Engagement Exercise: Meet The Buyer Event for Newham Pseudo-Dynamic Purchasing Scheme Lot 1, covering Round 6 reopening of the PDPS and a potential upcoming mini-competition - Clova Road mini-tender under the PDPS.
Authority: London Borough of Newham (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionNewham Council has an existing Pseudo Dynamic Purchasing System (known as PDPS). The initial round was awarded 31/03/2022. The Contract Award Notice for the PDPS is www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/080665-2025 ↗
The PDPS services scope is fully set out in paragraph 2 below.
The PDPS is currently opened for new entrants to join subject to the PDPS selection process as per the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (PCR). This selection round was opened under Contract Notice 2025/S 000-075111. Newham Council plans to extend this round to 12/03/2026. This is to allow for interested suppliers to access the PDPS and submit their requests for entry to join the PDPS.
The Council will is also seeking to hold a virtual Meet The Buyer Event on Wednesday 28th January 2026 at 10:30am as part of this process.
The event will be an opportunity for organisations interested in joining the PDPS and/or in the forthcoming potential mini-competition via the PDPS for Clova Road to understand the Council requirements and get an opportunity to ask questions.
Overview of the Clova Road mini-competition:
Clova Road is a new 8-bed home for young people aged 18-25 scheduled to open in 2027. This event will clarify key requirements of the PDPS Lot 1 Round 6 tender process and Clova Road mini tender process and share general feedback on issues identified during tender process thus far.
This event is for both organisations who are already part of the PDPS, and providers who are interested in joining the PDPS to access the Clova Road mini competition. This is not an invitation to tender. The process for the mini-competition shall be as follow:
- Suppliers must be registered under the PDPS to take part in this mini-competition. New suppliers must submit their bids by the end date of the current round - 12/03/2026. Please note that this date may be altered as required. In the event of alteration, the Contract Notice 2025/S 000-075111will be updated accordingly to inform the market.
- Following closure of Round 6, suppliers who have submitted a bid will be assessed and if successful will be admitted onto the PDPS.
- A mini-competition (subject to approval of the Council's corporate and governance processes) will then be undertaken via Lot 1 of this PDPS.
CPV: Social work and related services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1The London Borough of Newham (PDPS) Commissioning Homes for Looked After Children and…Planned
The London Borough of Newham (PDPS) Commissioning Homes for Looked After Children and Care Leavers includes the provision of:
Lot 1: Provision of Semi-Independent Living Services (now Supported Accommodation regulated by Ofsted)
Lot 2: Provision of Children's Homes regulated by Ofsted
Lot 3: Provision of Supported Lodgings
Lot 4: Provision of Independent Fostering Agencies (IFA) regulated by Ofsted
Lot 1 Provision of Semi Independent Living Services includes the following sub categories:
i) Lot 1a Standard Semi-independent Living
ii) Lot 1b High Needs Semi-independent Living
iii) Lot 1c Independent Living with Floating Support -standalone
iv) Lot 1d Independent Living with Floating Support - HMO/shared accommodation
v) Lot 1e Support Only
Clova Road is a new high support provision for Care Leavers and homeless young people aged 18-25, scheduled to open in 2027. A mini tender via the PDPS Lot 1b is currently planned to be undertaken in Q2-3 2026 to award the service delivery contract for Clova Road. These timelines are indicative only and will be subject to Council priorities and governance processes. Additional information: The market engagement event will take place on Wednesday 28th January 2026 at 10:30am. To register for the event please click on the following link: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/market-engagement-… ↗
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How London Borough of Newham buys Social work and related services (CPV 8530), and who usually turns up
London Borough of Newham’s published record next to the market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Social work and related services (CPV 8530) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
i
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.
i
How often local firms win similar work.
Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.
Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in Greater London.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.
i
How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards have an award date within 65 days of the bid deadline.
i
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.
Direct awards or one recorded bid are common here. Check the route before spending time on a bid.
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 bid14% / 22%
2–30% / 30%
4–614% / 32%
7+71% / 16%
How did awards compare with estimates?
i
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 estimate42%
Within ±2%53%
Above estimate5%
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.
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.
Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list
Lot #1The London Borough of Newham (PDPS) Commissioning Homes for Looked After Children and…CPV 8530Estimate not published
i
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 37 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid22%
2–330%
4–632%
7+16%
i
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.
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.
No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
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.
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.
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
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 8 Jan 2026, 16:53 GMT
- Last source update
- 8 Jan 2026, 16:53 GMT
- Authority reference
ITTN487- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-001626- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-060242Find a Tender
How it was run
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- Submission deadline
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Timeline
8 Jan 2026 → 28 Jan 2026 · 2 dates- Notice published293 days ago8 Jan 2026, 16:53 GMT
- Tender notice expected274 days ago28 Jan 2026
Commercial outcome & contract awards
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- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications
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