Official UK procurement notice
Provision of Extra Care Services within Gateshead
Authority: Gateshead Council (Education)
Gateshead Council (the Council) is inviting care providers to attend an Early Market Engagement session to discuss the opportunity to become part of a new Extra Care Framework that will support the delivery Extra Care services across Gateshead. As part of the Framework’s development, the Council is seeking to engage with the market to understand provider interest, gather feedback, and gain valuable insights that will help shape the procurement approach and service requirements.
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionGateshead Council (the Council) is inviting care providers to attend an Early Market Engagement session to discuss the opportunity to become part of a new Extra Care Framework that will support the delivery Extra Care services across Gateshead.
As part of the Framework’s development, the Council is seeking to engage with the market to understand provider interest, gather feedback, and gain valuable insights that will help shape the procurement approach and service requirements. Providers are invited to attend the event on Monday 16th November 2026 from 14:00-15:00 which will be held online on Teams.
CPV: Health and social work services
How this framework works
From the published notice- Framework period
- 7 yrs from 1 Apr 2027
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedWhat it takes to wini
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
- “Provision of Extra Care Services within Gateshead” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Gateshead Council buys Health and social work services (CPV 85), and who usually turns up
Gateshead Council’s published record next to the market for the same work. Compared with other frameworks and DPS only. Whole-market view: Health and social work services (CPV 85) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.
Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning. 503 known-size awards sit across 54 procurements, so one procurement can dominate this percentage.
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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 North East England.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered outside the region where that award was delivered. 578 known-location awards sit across 54 procurements, so one procurement can dominate this percentage.
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Half of these awards have an award date within 44 days of the bid deadline.
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Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.
Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.
How many bids did past lots attract?
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1 bid0% / 1%
2–30% / 10%
4–60% / 23%
7+100% / 66%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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On a framework or DPS, prices are agreed when work is called off.
Not comparable on a framework or DPS: the price is set later, on each call-off.
Assess each lot i
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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 85No real estimate
This lot lists more than one class in CPV 85. The comparison uses that group.
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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 88 past lots.
1 bid1%
2–310%
4–623%
7+66%
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No comparable awards for this lot yet.
Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
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| Supplier | This buyer’s earlier contract | Lot | Award value | Why listed |
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| Dale Care LimitedEarlier contract | Provision of generalist Home Care Servicesnotice published Dec 2024 | Sub Zone 4B | £12m | Matched as the earlier contract |
| Comfort Call LtdEarlier contract | Provision of generalist Home Care Servicesnotice published Dec 2024 | Sub Zone 3A | £12m | Matched as the earlier contract |
| Care Quality Services LtdEarlier contract | Provision of generalist Home Care Servicesnotice published Dec 2024 | Sub Zone 4A | £9.1m | Matched as the earlier contract |
| DK Home SupportEarlier contract | Provision of generalist Home Care Servicesnotice published Dec 2024 | Sub Zone 1B | £8.7m | Matched as the earlier contract |
| CALDERDALE HOME CARE LIMITEDEarlier contract | Provision of generalist Home Care Servicesnotice published Dec 2024 | Sub Zone 4C | £6.7m | Matched as the earlier contract |
Who could compete for this lot? i
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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.
What this replaces i
43% title match.
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43% title match.
The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (43% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid
Provision of generalist Home Care Services — held by Dale Care Limited and Comfort Call Ltd (+1 more); no contract end date published.
Coming up in this sector
Contracts ending within 12 months · Retender Radar, sector filter set
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- 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
- Framework agreement
- Who may use this agreement
- Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 29 Sept 2026, 11:27 BST
- Last source update
- 30 Oct 2026, 14:35 GMT
- Authority reference
SC058- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-103281- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-077c39Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Appointment period ends
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Timeline
29 Sept 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 5 dates- Planning notice published46 days ago29 Sept 2026, 11:27 BST
- Latest notice published15 days ago30 Oct 2026, 14:35 GMT
- Market engagement2 days ago11 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
A Market Engagement Event will be held online via Microsoft Teams on Monday 16 November 2026, from 2:00pm to 3:00pm.
To register your interest in attending, please complete and return the Market Engagement Questionnaire, available at www.open-uk.org ↗. Search for "Extra Care Framework – Gateshead Council" (Project Reference: OPEN-PR-30102026132236443)
- Today14 Nov 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 51 days4 Jan 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 137 days1 Apr 2027
Notice history
3 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 29 Sept 2026- Pipeline notice published29 Sept 2026, 11:27 BSTUK1
- Preliminary market engagement notice published30 Oct 2026, 14:35 GMTUK2
- Published value published: £030 Oct 2026, 14:35 GMT
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 (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Pipeline notice Pipeline notice on Find a Tender