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Preliminary Engagement Notice - Closing the Gap - VCSE Infrastructure Support

Social services
Location not published
Published value
Not published
Submission deadline Not published
Lots published1
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Tenderline Synopsis: Reading Borough Council: "Preliminary Engagement Notice - Closing the Gap - VCSE Infrastructure Support". Published status: planning. Published value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Contracting AuthorityReading Borough CouncilScope & CategoriesNot publishedSubmission Window
planning
No deadline published
Submission GatewayDirect notice routeLegal Basis & RegimeStandard procurementEstimated Value (exc. VAT)Not published
Bidder Intelligence · Authority Profile: Reading Borough Council
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Derived from OCDS awards & bid statistics
Published history for Reading Borough Council. These figures describe retained records, not a forecast of bids or a measure of buyer bias.
Published-to-award variance
Not availableInsufficient comparable data
Requires at least 5 comparable procedures
Competition Density
11.5Bids / Report
9.1% of reports have one bid
Supplier ConcentrationHigh Concentration
N-VIRO LIMITEDTop vendor: 61.3% of attributable value
Payment Terms
Check noticePublished terms
Payment obligations depend on the applicable regime and contract. Consult the official documents.
Coverage: 27 active published awards; 33 bid reports (which may be per lot). Supplier values exclude multi-supplier awards, frameworks and DPS, and use GBP only. They are published award values, not payments. Published-to-award variance compares single-lot, single-award, single-supplier GBP procedures with explicitly non-framework/non-DPS status; increases remain in the average. Unpublished data stays unknown. Awarded suppliers are winners, not all bidders.
Historical Awarded Suppliers With This Authority:
Supplier NameHistoric AwardsAttributable GBP Value
N-VIRO LIMITED1 win£8,636,031
O'HARA BROS. SURFACING LIMITED1 win£1,789,273
ZURICH INSURANCE COMPANY LTD1 win£730,000
RISK MANAGEMENT PARTNERS LTD.1 win£450,000
CITIZENS ADVICE READING1 win£400,000
Procedure terms
Contracting AuthorityReading Borough Council
Procedure methodNot published
Procurement categoryNot published
Statusplanning
Framework / DPSNot published
CompetitionNot published
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basisNot published
Tender period startsNot published
Clarification deadlineNot published
Electronic submissionNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Published2 Jun 2025, 10:23 BST
Last source update2 Jun 2025, 10:23 BST
Recurring procurementNot published
ClassificationSocial services
Delivery areaLocation not published
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-052a51
What is being bought
Closing the Gap (CTG) is a contract opportunity for providers to deliver preventative community-based services. As part of this we currently commission an Infrastructure Support Service to support to the local Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprises. We plan to re-procure this service towards the end of 2025 with the intention of starting the new contract on the 1st April 2025. The contract value for this service is expected to be £130,000 per annum for up to 5 years for a total value of £650,000. Engaging with providers is a key part of developing what this service will look like. As such, we are holding an engagement session to share our procurement timetable and draft service specification. This will be an opportunity for us to gather feedback which will shape the final service. The draft service specification being shared has been based on learning from the current Closing the Gap service, a Needs Analysis, feedback from stakeholders, a working group of cross-council colleagues and external stakeholders and consultations with funding stakeholders regarding alignment to funding outcome requirements. This engagement session will be held via Teams on June 12th at 12:00 am. Please reply via a correspondence message via the Reading Borough Council In-Tend system to this notice with any email addresses you wish to be sent an invitation to this meeting.
What changed
From the official release history
  1. Status changed to planning
    2 Jun 2025, 10:23 BST
  2. Official notice release published
    2 Jun 2025, 10:23 BST
  3. Buyer information updated
    2 Jun 2025, 10:23 BST
Lots and requirements (1)
Published by the contracting authority
  • Lot 1 · #LOT-0001
    Individual lot title not published
    planning
    Published valueNot published
    The source published no individual title or description for this lot.
    Contract periodNot published
    EligibilityNot published
    Options / renewalNot published
Timeline
  1. Pipeline notice
    2 Jun 2025, 10:23 BST
  2. Procedure published
    2 Jun 2025, 10:23 BST
  3. engagement
    13 Jun 2025, 00:59 BST · scheduled
    This engagement session will be held via Teams on June 12th at 12:00 am. Please reply via a correspondence message via the Reading Borough Council In-Tend system to this notice with any email addresses you wish to be sent an invitation to this meeting.
Commercial outcome and competition
AwardsNo award published
ContractsNo contract published
Bid statisticsNo aggregate bid statistics published
Buyer and organisations in this procedure

Reading Borough Council

Contracting authority GB-PPON-PWBJ-9435-VXQQ
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  • Reading Borough Council
    buyer

    GB-PPON: PWBJ-9435-VXQQ
    Bridge Street, Reading, UKJ11, RG1 2LU, GB
    pchub@reading.gov.uk
Documents (1)
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Related procedures (0)
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Planning and rationale
Planning budgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Procedure rationaleNot published