Official UK procurement notice
Market Engagement - Home Settle and Support Service
Authority: London Borough of Barking and Dagenham (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Home, Settle and Support service provides short-term, practical support to vulnerable residents following a hospital stay, Emergency Department presentation, or where they are at risk of hospital admission from the community. The service supports timely and safe discharge, helps people regain confidence and independence at home, reduce loneliness and social isolation as well as prevent avoidable readmissions. Support is tailored to individual need and normally provided for a short period, up to a maximum of four weeks, with clear signposting and warm handovers into relevant community and voluntary sector services.
We are inviting the market to help us develop our future iteration of the service through shared experience, best practice and innovation.
This is solely for the purpose of gathering information and understanding market capability and capacity and not a call to competition.
Participation in this engagement is voluntary and will have no bearing on any future procurement activity. Suppliers who participate will not receive any preferential treatment, advantage, or influence in any subsequent procurement process. Equally, suppliers who choose not to participate will not be disadvantaged or excluded from any future opportunity.
CPV: Social work and related 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 London Borough of Barking and Dagenham buys Social work and related services (CPV 8530), and who usually turns up
London Borough of Barking and Dagenham’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: Social work and related services (CPV 8530) →
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 Greater London.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in Greater London.
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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 67 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.
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 bid33% / 22%
2–38% / 30%
4–642% / 32%
7+17% / 16%
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 estimate57% / 42%
Within ±2%43% / 53%
Above estimate0% / 5%
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 #1CPV 8530Published estimate£440k
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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 37 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid22%
2–330%
4–632%
7+16%
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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.
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
- Below threshold
- 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
- 29 Jun 2026, 10:43 BST
- Last source update
- 7 Jul 2026, 14:46 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-063707- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
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How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
29 Jun 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 5 dates- Planning notice published115 days ago29 Jun 2026, 10:43 BST
- Latest notice published107 days ago7 Jul 2026, 14:46 BST
- Market engagement98 days ago15 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST
To encourage wider market participation and ensure we capture a broad range of supplier perspectives the Expression of Interest period has been extended.
The revised deadline for registering interest is now 12 noon, Monday 13th July.
We remain keen to engage with suppliers who can provide insights, innovative solutions, and feedback to help shape our future procurement approach. If you have not yet registered and would like to participate, please submit your expression of interest by the revised deadline.
Key Details
Market Engagement Event: Home, Settle and Support Service
Revised EOI Deadline: 12 noon, Monday 13th.
Event Date: Tuesday 14th of July
Time: 1.30 to 3pm.
Market Engagement Questionnaire
This questionnaire forms part of early market engagement to support the re-procurement of the Home Settle and Support Service.
We are seeking insight from providers to inform service design, delivery models, innovation, and best practice. Your responses will help shape the future specification and procurement approach.
Completed questionnaires should be returned no later than 12 noon, 13th of July.
Please register your interest via the messaging function for the Home Settle and Support Service project on the portal.
- Tender notice expected20 days ago1 Oct 2026, 23:59 BST
- Today22 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 161 days1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
3 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 29 Jun 2026- Preliminary market engagement notice published29 Jun 2026, 10:43 BSTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published29 Jun 2026, 10:49 BSTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published7 Jul 2026, 14:46 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 (3)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender