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NEPO605A - Children's Advocacy, Independent People for Children and Adults Complaints and Secure Reviews - Opening 7

Buyer: Newcastle City Council →

BuyerNewcastle City Council
StatusAwarded
Deadline28 Apr 2026
ValueValue not published
Published23 Jul 2026

What is being bought

This is the seventh opening of this bespoke flexible procurement originally under find a tender reference 2023/S 000-033961 This bespoke flexible procurement solution is under the Social and Other Specific Services EU procurement route ('Light Touch Regime'), and will be known as the Flexible Procurement Agreement (Contract) for the provision of Services for: Lot 3 - Investigating Officers (Children and Adult Stage Two Complaints) Lot 4 - Independent Persons (Children and Adult Stage Two Complaints) Lot 5 - Independent Chairs for Stage Three Statutory Children's Social Care Complaints Lot 6 - Independent Panellists for Stage Three Statutory Children's Social Care Complaints Lot 7 - Independent Persons for Secure Accommodation Reviews

Delivery location

UK · UK · UK · UK · UK

Categories

Health and social work services 85000000Health and social work services 85000000

Lot details

Investigating Officers (IO) (Children and Adult Stage 2 Complaints)

Investigating officers (children and adult stage two complaints)

Statuscancelled

Award criteria
price

Independent Persons (IP) (Children and Adult Stage Two Complaints)

Independent persons (children and adult stage two complaints)

Statuscancelled

Award criteria
price

Independent Chairs for Stage Three Statutory Children's Social Care Complaints

Independent chairs for stage 3 statutory children's social care complaints

Statuscancelled

Award criteria
price

Independent Panellists for Stage Three Statutory Children's Social Care Complaints

Independent panellists for stage three statutory children's social care complaints

Statuscancelled

Award criteria
price

Independent Persons for Secure Accommodation Reviews

Independent persons for secure accommodation reviews

Statuscancelled

Award criteria
price

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
3Health and social work servicesNot published
4Health and social work servicesNot published
5Health and social work servicesNot published
6Health and social work servicesNot published
7Health and social work servicesNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 85. The category anchor is Health and social work services (85000000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison setProceduresReported bids per procedureNamed award suppliersPrice evidence
Market: CPV division 8518,5941 median · 30.4 average (8,830 of 18,594 with a bid count)2 average (9,804 of 18,594 with named award suppliers)10 comparable price pairs
Same buyer204 median · 16.2 average (10 of 20 with a bid count)1.9 average (10 of 20 with named award suppliers)Not published
Delivery region: UK9731 median · 40.8 average (369 of 973 with a bid count)4.1 average (439 of 973 with named award suppliers)1 comparable price pairs

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Price-outcome signal

Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementNot published
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimeNot published
Covered byGPA
Submission policyNot published
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents0
Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Awards

069633-2026-2

Statusunsuccessful

Contracts

069633-2026-1

Statusactive

Documents & submission route

No documents are published in the current source record.

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-06718e
Latest release ID069633-2026
Latest release timestampThu Jul 23 2026 11:09:15 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLNot published
Tender statuscomplete
Procurement methodopen
Procurement method detailsOpen procedure
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basis32014L0024
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: endNot published
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadlineNot published
Award period: startNot published
Award period: endNot published
Submission method detailsNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender valueNot published
Tender lots in source5
Tender items in source5
Tender documents in source0
Awards in latest release2
Contracts in latest release1
Parties in latest release3

Notice history

DateEventReference
23 Jul 2026award, contract069633-2026
23 Mar 2026tender026329-2026

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

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Complete JSON history (2 releases)
23 Jul 2026 · 069633-2026 · award, contract
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23 Mar 2026 · 026329-2026 · tender
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