Official UK procurement notice
Market Engagement - Integrated Care Model for Children and Young People (Children's Homes)
Authority: London Borough of Barking and Dagenham (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe London Borough of Barking and Dagenham are seeking to engage with providers of children's homes to inform future commissioning arrangements for children with severe, complex behavioural needs and/or significant mental health needs.
The Council is particularly interested in developing local capacity and exploring opportunities to support children to remain as close to their communities as practicable. While there is an interest in provision located within or close to the borough, the Council welcomes engagement from all providers with relevant experience, expertise and capacity.
The Council is exploring a range of potential commissioning and contracting models, which may include block purchasing arrangements, strategic partnerships, or other contractual approaches, subject to future business requirements, procurement considerations and approvals.
The aim of this market engagement exercise is to develop a better understanding of:
- Current market capability and capacity;
- Innovative approaches to supporting children with complex needs;
- Opportunities for integrated and multidisciplinary support models;
- Potential barriers, risks and implementation considerations; and
- The feasibility of developing a local care estate that enables more children to remain closer to home.
Providers with relevant regulatory registrations, experience, facilities and specialist expertise are invited to participate and share their views.
The virtual market engagement details are as below:
Date: 30th July 2026
Time: 11 to 12 noon
Interested Providers should register their interest by contacting [email protected] no later than 12 noon, Wednesday 29th July.
Important Notice
This engagement is being undertaken solely for information-gathering and market-testing purposes. It does not constitute a call for competition, procurement exercise, or commitment by the Council to commence a procurement or award any contract. Participation in this engagement will not provide any advantage in any future procurement process, should one be undertaken. The Council will ensure that any future procurement is conducted in accordance with the Procurement Act 2023 and applicable regulations.
CPV: Health and social work services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How London Borough of Barking and Dagenham buys Health and social work services (CPV 85), 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: 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.
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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% / 27%
2–38% / 33%
4–642% / 24%
7+17% / 17%
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% / 36%
Within ±2%43% / 56%
Above estimate0% / 8%
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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 #1Published estimate£300k
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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 344 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid27%
2–333%
4–624%
7+17%
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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
- 13 Jul 2026, 10:01 BST
- Last source update
- 13 Jul 2026, 10:26 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-065483- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06c939Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
13 Jul 2026 → 1 Nov 2026 · 4 dates- Planning notice published101 days ago13 Jul 2026, 10:01 BST
- Market engagement83 days ago30 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST
Please register your interest by email to [email protected] by 12 noon, Wednesday 29th July, 2026.
- Tender notice expected20 days ago1 Oct 2026, 23:59 BST
- Today22 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 10 days1 Nov 2026
Notice history
2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 13 Jul 2026- Preliminary market engagement notice published13 Jul 2026, 10:01 BSTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published13 Jul 2026, 10:26 BSTUK2
Published amendments (1)
Dates
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
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender