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title: "Market Engagement - SEND Placements"
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# Market Engagement - SEND Placements

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/market-engagement-send-placements-ocds-h6vhtk-037467). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Thurrock Council: "Market Engagement - SEND Placements". Published status: planned. Planned Pipeline Value: £30,800,000. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** PLANNED (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [Thurrock Council](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/thurrock-council-ons-e06000034)
- **Planned Pipeline Value:** £30,800,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Not published
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Social work services, Special education services
- **Delivery Location:** UKH32
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-037467`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/market-engagement-send-placements-ocds-h6vhtk-037467#tl-md)

## Description
Thurrock Council is seeking to develop a framework of providers to deliver day and residential educational support placements to children and young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) up to the age of 25 years old. Our vision is in securing SEND day and residential placements provision in and outside of Thurrock, ideally as close to the homes of Thurrock’s children and young people as possible to allow them to remain within their local communities. Our aim is to support positive family relationships, reduce family travel costs to provision often located a long distance away from a child or young person’s home and family in Thurrock and reduce expensive out of borough care.Providers should be able to offer day and/or residential educational placements with a range of specialist support and service responses.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** planned
- **CPV codes:** 80340000
- **Delivery regions:** UKH

- **Description:** Thurrock Council is seeking to develop a framework of providers to deliver day and residential educational support placements to children and young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) up to the age of 25 years old.Our vision...

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F028422-2022)
- **Last Source Update:** 2022-10-10T13:12:28.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-28T04:19:44.170Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-037467