Official UK procurement notice
Re-Opening for the Provision of Children's Therapeutic Services
Authority: West Sussex County Council (Local council)·Consortium: 2 public authorities
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Framework for Therapeutic Services includes the provision of therapeutic assessments and therapeutic interventions for children and young people. This includes the provision of therapies from multiple disciplines.
CPV: Health services
How this framework works
From the published notice- Framework period
- 6 yrs 11 mo from 31 Aug 2023, Procured under the Light Touch Regime as an Open Framework
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1RenewalPublished value£2,500,000
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).
- Suitability
Please see ITP for full details.
- “Re-Opening for the Provision of Children's Therapeutic Services” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How West Sussex County Council buys Health services (CPV 8510), and who usually turns up
West Sussex County 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 services (CPV 8510) →
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 South East England.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in South East England.
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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 70 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.
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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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 bid14% / 0%
2–30% / 0%
4–60% / 33%
7+86% / 67%
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.
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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.
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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 #1CPV 8510Published estimate£2.5m
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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 bid3%
2–35%
4–630%
7+62%
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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.
No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
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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.
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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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Barnardo'sLarge | £167m83 awards in 36m · last this month | 31 live · £87m 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=38 |
ACTION FOR CHILDRENLarge | £144m33 awards in 36m · last 1 months ago | 7 live · £8.2m 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. | at estimate n=17 |
Home Group LtdLarge | £34m46 awards in 36m · last 1 months ago | 14 live · £9.9m 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=7 |
| £48m27 awards in 36m · last 4 months ago | 5 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. | at estimate n=17 | |
Change, Grow, LiveLarge | £315m30 awards in 36m · last 1 months ago | 4 live · £91m 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=12 |
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- Procedure method
- Restricted procedure
- 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
- 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
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Yes
- First published
- 14 Feb 2022, 20:28 GMT
- Last source update
- 24 May 2024, 11:14 BST
- Award evaluation window
- 4 Apr 2022 – …
- Authority reference
2023/S 000-025731- FTS notice number
2024/S 000-016424- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-031708Find a Tender
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Apply via portal- Requests to participate (first stage)
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- Appointment period ends
- 14 Feb 2027, 17:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
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- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission","written"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bids opened
- 4 Apr 2022, 12:00 BST
Timeline
4 Apr 2022 → 14 Feb 2027 · 4 dates- Bids opened4 Apr 2022, 12:00 BST
- Contract starts31 Aug 2023, 00:00 BST
- Notice published24 May 2024, 11:14 BST
- Today22 Oct 2026
- Admission / appointment period endsin 115 days · period end, not a bid countdown14 Feb 2027, 17:00 GMT
Notice history
3 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 1 Sept 2023- Procurement method changed1 Sept 2023, 10:45 BST
- Deadline moved to 14 Feb 2027, 17:00 GMT1 Sept 2023, 10:45 BST+1777 days · was 4 Apr 2022, 12:00 BST
- Buyer details updated1 Sept 2023, 10:45 BST
Published amendments (1 · 0 deadline changes)
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| — | TextCommunication · I.3 | The procurement documents are available for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge, at: https://in-tendorganiser.co.uk/sesharedservices/. Additional information can be obtained from the above-mentioned addressTenders or requests to participate must be submitted electronically via: https://in-tendorganiser.co.uk/sesharedservices/. Tenders or requests to participate must be submitted to… | The procurement documents are available for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge, at: https://atamis-7669.my.site.com/s/Welcome . Additional information can be obtained from the above-mentioned addressTenders or requests to participate must be submitted electronically via: https://atamis-7669.my.site.com/s/Welcome . Tenders or requests to participate must be submitted to the above-m… |
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
2 public bodies on the noticeDispute resolution & review bodies
- The Public Review ServiceReview body
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Economic and financial selection criteria
- Technical selection criteria