Official UK procurement notice
Plymouth Adult Unpaid Carers Service
Authority: Plymouth City Council (Local council)
Have Your Say About Support for Unpaid Carers in Plymouth Co-Production Workshop: Shaping the Future Adult Unpaid Carers Service. Are you an unpaid carer, former carer, family member, community representative, or professional who supports carers?
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionHave Your Say About Support for Unpaid Carers in Plymouth Co-Production Workshop: Shaping the Future Adult Unpaid Carers Service
Are you an unpaid carer, former carer, family member, community representative, or professional who supports carers?
Join Plymouth City Council for an interactive workshop to help design Plymouth's future Adult Unpaid Carers Service. Your views and experiences will directly influence how support for unpaid carers is delivered in the future
Date: Monday, 23 November
Time: 10:00am to 12:30pm
Venue: Sustainability Hub, Kirkby Lodge, Plymouth University, City Centre Campus
Why Attend?
This is your opportunity to:
✅ Share your experiences of current carers support services
✅ Tell us what works well and what needs to improve
✅ Help identify the most important priorities for future services
✅ Influence how support is designed for unpaid carers across Plymouth ✅ Ensure the voices of carers are at the heart of decision-making
Who Should Attend?
- Adult unpaid carers
- Former carers
- Young adult carers
- Health and social care professionals
- Community and voluntary sector organisations
Why Your Voice Matters
There are an estimated 24,000 unpaid carers in Plymouth, providing vital support to family members, partners, friends and neighbours. As the current commissioned service reaches the end of its contract, Plymouth City Council is reviewing what support carers need now and in the future. This workshop will directly inform the development of a new service.
If you would like to attend, please let us know as spaces are limited. Please email [email protected] or telephone: 01752 307074 ask for Kate Lattimore
Adult Unpaid Carers Service Commissioning Workshop Hosted by Plymouth City Council Social Care Commissioning Team.
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 Plymouth City Council buys Social work and related services (CPV 8530), and who usually turns up
Plymouth City Council’s published record next to the market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. 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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Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in South West England.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered outside the region where that award was delivered.
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Half of these awards have an award date within 87 days of the bid deadline.
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Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.
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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1 bid36% / 12%
2–345% / 52%
4–60% / 20%
7+18% / 16%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Below estimate0% / 27%
Within ±2%100% / 73%
Above estimate0% / 0%
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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£4.0m
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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 25 past lots.
1 bid12%
2–352%
4–620%
7+16%
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No comparable awards for this lot yet.
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No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
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Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.
About this data
- Estimates, labelled. The price range, possible competitors and earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards, not published facts, win chances or price advice. The buyer’s own record and the wider market are shown apart, never mixed.
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender and Contracts Finder), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0, updated through the day and rebuilt nightly. Not every figure uses both feeds, and each one shows how many records it rests on: see the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.
Coming up in this sector
Contracts ending within 12 months · Retender Radar, sector filter set
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
- 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
- 6 Nov 2026, 15:06 GMT
- Last source update
- 6 Nov 2026, 15:06 GMT
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-105824- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07b6c6Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
6 Nov 2026 → 1 Jun 2027 · 3 dates- Planning notice published8 days ago6 Nov 2026, 15:06 GMT
- Today15 Nov 2026
- Market engagementin 47 days1 Jan 2027, 23:59 GMT
Have Your Say About Support for Unpaid Carers in Plymouth Co-Production Workshop: Shaping the Future Adult Unpaid Carers Service
Are you an unpaid carer, former carer, family member, community representative, or professional who supports carers?
Join Plymouth City Council for an interactive workshop to help design Plymouth's future Adult Unpaid Carers Service. Your views and experiences will directly influence how support for unpaid carers is delivered in the future
Date: Monday, 23 November
Time: 10:00am to 12:30pm
Venue: Sustainability Hub, Kirkby Lodge, Plymouth University, City Centre Campus
Why Attend?
This is your opportunity to:
✅ Share your experiences of current carers support services
✅ Tell us what works well and what needs to improve
✅ Help identify the most important priorities for future services
✅ Influence how support is designed for unpaid carers across Plymouth ✅ Ensure the voices of carers are at the heart of decision-making
Who Should Attend?
- Adult unpaid carers
- Former carers
- Young adult carers
- Health and social care professionals
- Community and voluntary sector organisations
Why Your Voice Matters
There are an estimated 24,000 unpaid carers in Plymouth, providing vital support to family members, partners, friends and neighbours. As the current commissioned service reaches the end of its contract, Plymouth City Council is reviewing what support carers need now and in the future. This workshop will directly inform the development of a new service.
If you would like to attend, please let us know as spaces are limited. Please email [email protected] or telephone: 01752 307074 ask for Kate Lattimore
Adult Unpaid Carers Service Commissioning Workshop Hosted by Plymouth City Council Social Care Commissioning Team.
- Contract startsin 197 days1 Jun 2027
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published6 Nov 2026, 15:06 GMTUK2
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 (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender