Official UK procurement notice
Pseudo DPS - Individual Service Funds (ISF's)
Authority: Wakefield Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Council is looking to develop a Pseudo Dynamic Purchasing System (Pseudo DPS) of qualified providers who are able to deliver services to people with ISF's.
Applicants who meet and pass the Application criteria will be admitted to the Pseudo DPS.
Please note that this is not a competitive process and there is no limit to the number of Applicants who can be appointed.
Please note, Applicants who are successfully admitted on to the PDPS are not guaranteed to be awarded any financial provision for the duration of this arrangement.
It is expected that the Individual Service Fund (PDPS) will operate initially for the period 1 August 2023 - 31 July 2026, with an option to terminate or to extend for up to a further two years (at the Councils sole discretion) e.g., 1 August 2026 - 31 July 2028.
Apppication form and information can be accessed via YORtender: YORtender (eu-supply.com)
Reference: 62706
CPV: Health and social work services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1To establish a Pseudo Dynamic Purchasing System (PDPS), the Council is required to…
To establish a Pseudo Dynamic Purchasing System (PDPS), the Council is required to undertake a three-stage process.
Stage 1: Establishing the PDPS -- The Council shall advertise the opportunity to be appointed to a PDPS for the provision of ISF Services. Applicants will have 30 days to respond accordingly to the opportunity during the initial establishment of the PDPS, in preparation for the provision of ISF services.
Stage 2: Once the PDPS goes live, applications can be submitted throughout the lifetime of the PDPS . Applications will be accessed quarterly (November, February, May and August)
Stage 3: Awarding of individual contracts
The person / individual (or their representative) can:
- Choose the Provider.
- Work with then Provider to use their ISF in a flexible way to meet outcomes and support needs.
- Use their ISF to pay for support from different organisations if they want to.
The services required under this procurement fall within schedule 3 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (SI 2015/102) and are therefore not bound by all of its requirements. The Council will follow its own modified version of the Dynamic Purchasing System process prescribed under regulation 34 for setting up and running this provision.
This modified process reflects the personal needs of service users and maintains the principles of fairness, openness and transparency.
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
- “Pseudo DPS - Individual Service Funds (ISF's)” is a dynamic market: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How Wakefield Council buys Health and social work services (CPV 85), and who usually turns up
Wakefield Council’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. This notice is a framework or DPS, so only frameworks and DPS are compared. 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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How often small and medium firms win.
Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.
The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.
No small-firm winners recorded among this authority’s published awards in this sample.
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How often local firms win similar work.
Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.
Here, local means registered in Yorkshire and the Humber.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered outside Yorkshire and the Humber.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards were announced within 105 days of the bid deadline.
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How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.
Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.
The market share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
Awards are recorded, but published direct routes and bid counts do not establish this buyer’s share.
How many bids did past lots attract?
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How many bids past lots received.
Each colour is a bid-count range. Only competed lots with a published count are included.
Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid0% / 3%
2–30% / 10%
4–60% / 16%
7+100% / 70%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
Each colour shows awards below, close to or above the published estimate, one lot at a time.
On a framework or DPS, prices are agreed when work is called off.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Not comparable on a framework or DPS. The notice sets up a supplier panel and a ceiling value; what the work actually costs is agreed later, on each call-off or mini-competition, and those publish as contract notices of their own. The award-vs-estimate record of this market therefore sits on the call-offs; this page shows it on the contracts, not on the panel that frames them.
Assess each lot i
What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list
Lot #1To establish a Pseudo Dynamic Purchasing System (PDPS), the Council is required to…Published estimate£19m
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How many bids this lot may attract.
The forecast uses similar past competitions. The bar shows either that forecast or past bid counts; the line below says which.
Each lot shows its own forecast based on its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid7%
2–33%
4–66%
7+85%
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Where the award price may land.
The forecast uses similar awards and the buyer’s estimate. The band covers the middle half of likely prices.
No comparable awards for this lot yet.
A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.
Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
| Supplier | This buyer’s earlier contract | Lot | Award value | Why listed |
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| Millennium SupportWorked for this buyer | My Life PDSPnotice published Apr 2022 | — | — | Similar wording and category |
| Turning PointWorked for this buyer | My Life PDSPnotice published Apr 2022 | — | — | Similar wording and category |
| Lifeways Community Care LimitedWorked for this buyer | My Life PDSPnotice published Apr 2022 | — | — | Similar wording and category |
| 1st Enable LtdWorked for this buyer | My Life PDSPnotice published Apr 2022 | — | — | Similar wording and category |
| DIMENSIONS (UK) LIMITEDWorked for this buyer | My Life PDSPnotice published Apr 2022 | — | — | Similar wording and category |
Who could compete for this lot? i
Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
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Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
| Supplier | Won in this category | Live contracts | Award vs estimate |
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Turning PointLarge | £212m18 awards in 36m · last this month | 6 live · £191m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | at estimate n=6 |
| £6.6m13 awards in 36m · last 3 months ago | 5 live · £307m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | at estimate n=1 | |
| £10m5 awards in 36m · last 7 months ago | 4 live · £128m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | 36% below n=1 | |
| £7.2m1 awards in 36m · last this month | 1 live · £2.2m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | no comparable pairs | |
| £2.2m6 awards in 36m · last 10 months ago | 1 live · £3.0m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | no comparable pairs |
About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
- Two views, kept apart. The authority’s own track record and the wider market for the same kind of work sit side by side and are never mixed. Where the local picture is too thin, a figure widens to a broader market and says which one it used.
- Forecasts are labelled. The price forecast and its range, possible competitors and the earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards: not published facts, not win chances and not price advice. Official notices do not say who is bidding.
- Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Open admission
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Dynamic market
- Who may use this agreement
- Any qualifying supplier may apply while the market is open
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 4 Apr 2023, 10:03 BST
- Last source update
- 9 May 2023, 16:46 BST
- Authority reference
62706- FTS notice number
2023/S 000-013192- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-03bc4aFind a Tender
How to participate & submission route
Official notice- Requests to participate (first stage)
- —
- Admission period ends
- 31 Jul 2028
- Clarification deadline
- —
- Submission channel
- {"written"}
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
9 May 2023 → 31 Jul 2028 · 2 dates- Notice published9 May 2023, 16:46 BST
- Today22 Oct 2026
- Admission / appointment period endsperiod end, not a bid countdown31 Jul 2028
Notice history
2 releases on Find a TenderPublished amendments (1 · 0 deadline changes)
| When | What | Before | After | Shift |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | TextStage 2 wording · II.2.4 | — | Stage 2: Once the PDPS goes live, applications can be submitted throughout the lifetime of the PDPS. Applications will be assessed on an ongoing basis with the aim to notify applicants of the outcome of their application within approximately 6 weeks of submission, subject to volumes received and resources |
1 amendment published without a description.
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Nothing awarded yet- 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
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice; the tender pack is on the portal.