Official UK procurement notice
Multiple Disadvantage and Housing Support Alliance
Authority: Sheffield City Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Multiple Disadvantage and Housing Support Service, will work in a streamlined and holistic manner across the area of Sheffield. It will provide holistic and multi-faceted floating support to people who experience multiple disadvantage – officially defined as a co-morbidity of homelessness/housing insecurity, mental health needs, substance use, involvement with the criminal justice system and domestic abuse – often further compounded by additional factors such as trauma, poverty, discrimination and stigma. The integrated service will aim to prevent and tackle multiple disadvantage, whilst recognising the intersectionality and compounding impact of the areas of need outlined above. The service will build on local learning from the Changing Futures programme and aligns with the city’s strategy Coordination from Complexity (2025–2030), consultation findings, and the Alliance Commissioning Vision. It will provide a clear, equitable and trauma-informed offer across three pathways: (1) Young People aged 16–25 (2) Adults aged 25+ (3) Recovery and Co-production (all ages). This contract is being awarded as an alliance contract, which means the Council expects tender responses to be submitted on behalf of groups of suppliers that are able collectively to deliver the Services.
- How the procedure runs: The Contracting Authority has decided to utilise a Multi-stage Competitive Flexible Procedure with the following stages: An initial tender stage, including Conditions of Participation Stage, where all submissions that reach a threshold of 65% will go through to the second stage. A negotiation stage which will consist of approximately 3 sessions based on the following: 1) Further details on how the Alliance will work in practice 2) Clarification questions of the original bid 3) Case Study Scenarios Final tenders will be submitted and evaluated. For further details around the procurement process please see the ITT
CPV: Health and social work services · Housing services · Social work and related services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1RenewalPublished value£21,880,000
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How this buyer will score bids.
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The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Published award criteria (2)
- Quality: Quality Criteria is evaluated based on a number of method statement questions. Please see details in the ITT.
- Social Value: Please see the Social Value question in the ITT documentation.
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- Technical & professional ability
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Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Competitive flexible procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Closed
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- 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 Nov 2025, 13:30 GMT
- Last source update
- 10 Jun 2026, 11:32 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 16 Nov 2026
- Authority reference
100111368- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-054655- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05e06cFind a Tender
- How it runs
The Contracting Authority has decided to utilise a Multi-stage Competitive Flexible Procedure with the following stages: An initial tender stage, including Conditions of Participation Stage, where all submissions that reach a threshold of 65% will go through to the second stage. A negotiation stage which will consist of approximately 3 sessions based on the following: 1) Further details on how the Alliance will work in practice 2) Clarification questions of the original bid 3) Case Study Scenarios Final tenders will be submitted and evaluated. For further details around the procurement process please see the ITT
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 16 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
- Clarification deadline
- 13 Jul 2026, 17:00 BST
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
13 Nov 2025 → 1 Apr 2027 · 8 dates- Planning notice published349 days ago13 Nov 2025, 13:30 GMT
- Market engagement322 days ago9 Dec 2025, 23:59 GMT
- Next notice expected148 days ago2 Jun 2026, 00:59 BST
- Tender notice published140 days ago10 Jun 2026, 11:32 BST
- Clarification questions by107 days ago13 Jul 2026, 17:00 BST
- Submission deadline12 days ago16 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
- Today28 Oct 2026
- Award decision expected byin 19 days16 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 154 days1 Apr 2027
Notice history
6 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 13 Nov 2025- Preliminary market engagement notice published13 Nov 2025, 13:30 GMTUK2
- Tender notice published10 Jun 2026, 11:32 BSTUK4
- Published value updated to £21,880,00010 Jun 2026, 11:32 BSTwas £15,000,000
- Status changed to active10 Jun 2026, 11:32 BST
- Procurement method changed10 Jun 2026, 11:32 BST
- Deadline published: 16 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST10 Jun 2026, 11:32 BST
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender