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title: "Provision of Community Short Breaks for Children with Disabilities and their Families in Bedford Borough 2026"
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# Provision of Community Short Breaks for Children with Disabilities and their Families in Bedford Borough 2026

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/provision-of-community-short-breaks-for-children-with-disabilities-and-their-families-in-b-ocds-h6vhtk-05e8ef). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Bedford Borough Council: "Provision of Community Short Breaks for Children with Disabilities and their Families in Bedford Borough 2026". Published status: planning. Planned Pipeline Value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** PLANNING (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [Bedford Borough Council](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/bedford-borough-council-ons-e06000055)
- **Planned Pipeline Value:** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Not published
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Child daycare services, Daycare services, Daycare services for disabled children and young people, Other community, social and personal services, Social services
- **Delivery Location:** Not published
- **Legal Basis:** UKPGA 2023/54
- **Official Documents:** 1 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/provision-of-community-short-breaks-for-children-with-disabilities-and-their-families-in-b-ocds-h6vhtk-05e8ef#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-05e8ef`

## Before you bid
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- **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/provision-of-community-short-breaks-for-children-with-disabilities-and-their-families-in-b-ocds-h6vhtk-05e8ef#tl-md)

## Description
Bedford Borough Council provides a range of Short Break Services that are designed to assist individuals who provide care for CYP with Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities (SEND). The provision of short breaks is a statutory requirement under the Children and Families Act 2014. Local authorities are required to provide access to services that are designed to assist individuals who provide care for children with SEND to continue to do so, or to do so more effectively, by giving them breaks from caring. Local authorities must offer short breaks as part of a preventative model in keeping families together, preventing family breakdown and preventing CYP with SEND becoming children looked after.
Short Breaks Services have been defined as services that give CYP with SEND enjoyable experiences away from their primary carers, thereby contributing to their personal and social development and reducing social isolation; and services that provide parents and families a necessary and valuable break from their caring responsibilities.
Short Breaks Services can include day-time or overnight care in the homes of CYP with SEND or elsewhere, educational or leisure activities outside their homes, or services available to assist carers in the evenings, at weekends and during the school holidays.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** planning
- **CPV codes:** 85312100, 85312110, 85312120, 85320000, 98000000

- **Contract Period:** 31/03/2026 to 31/03/2028
- **Renewal published:** yes

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F077133-2025)
- **Last Source Update:** 2025-11-26T10:55:47.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-26T00:09:23.317Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-05e8ef