Official UK procurement notice
Re-opening of the Open Framework for the Provision of Short Breaks for Disabled Children and Young People
Authority: West Sussex County Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionShort Breaks offer Children and Young People planned time away from their main carers undertaking activities that they enjoy, with their friends/peers, supporting them to become more confident and independent, whilst allowing parents a break from their caring role. Some Short Breaks involve the whole family, where parents don’t have a break from their caring role, preferring to spend time with family members, doing fun things as a family.Short Breaks can include:
- activities and days for the whole family to enjoy together
- holiday play schemes
- weekend/evening clubs and activities. Short Breaks are offered outside of the school/college day and can last anything from a few hours to a whole day. During school/college holidays play schemes and youth schemes are available. They take place at a wide range of venues mainly across West Sussex, including community and leisure centres, and at some school locations. This Open Framework is conducted under the Light Touch Regime
CPV: Health and social work services
How this framework works
From the published notice- Places
- up to 100 suppliers
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1
Please see tender pack for full details.
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).
- “Re-opening of the Open Framework for the Provision of Short Breaks for…” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, up to 100 suppliers, not a single contract.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How West Sussex County Council buys Health and social work services (CPV 85), 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 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 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% / 5%
2–30% / 6%
4–60% / 16%
7+86% / 72%
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 #1Estimate not published
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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 bid4%
2–33%
4–610%
7+83%
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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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| Impact InitiativesEarlier contract | WSCC GM Framework Reopening for the provision of Accommodation and Support for 16+ Older Looked After Young People and Care Leaversnotice published May 2024 | Provision of Accommodation and Support for 16+ Older Looked After Young People and Care Leavers | — | Matched as the earlier contract |
| Achieving Higher Heights LtdEarlier contract | WSCC GM Framework Reopening for the provision of Accommodation and Support for 16+ Older Looked After Young People and Care Leaversnotice published May 2024 | Provision of Accommodation and Support for 16+ Older Looked After Young People and Care Leavers | — | Matched as the earlier contract |
| Anytime RecruitmentEarlier contract | WSCC GM Framework Reopening for the provision of Accommodation and Support for 16+ Older Looked After Young People and Care Leaversnotice published May 2024 | Provision of Accommodation and Support for 16+ Older Looked After Young People and Care Leavers | — | Matched as the earlier contract |
| Silver Birch Care LtdEarlier contract | WSCC GM Framework Reopening for the provision of Accommodation and Support for 16+ Older Looked After Young People and Care Leaversnotice published May 2024 | Provision of Accommodation and Support for 16+ Older Looked After Young People and Care Leavers | — | Matched as the earlier contract |
| STONEPILLOWEarlier contract | WSCC GM Framework Reopening for the provision of Accommodation and Support for 16+ Older Looked After Young People and Care Leaversnotice published May 2024 | Provision of Accommodation and Support for 16+ Older Looked After Young People and Care Leavers | — | Matched as the earlier contract |
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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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| £411k2 awards in 36m · last 31 months ago | None on file | 21% below n=2 | |
| £1.3m10 awards in 36m · last 8 months ago | 1 live · £880k 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 | |
| £4.1m11 awards in 36m · last 2 months ago | 3 live · £716k 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=5 | |
| 1 awards in 36m · last 7 months ago | None on file | no comparable pairs | |
| 2 awards in 36m · last 18 months ago | None on file | 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.
What this replaces i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
42% title match.
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.
42% title match.
A past supplier may not bid again.
The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (42% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid
WSCC GM Framework Reopening for the provision of Accommodation and Support for 16+ Older Looked After Young People and Care Leavers, winner not published; the published contract ends 31 Aug 2028.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Open 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
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Yes
- First published
- 29 Nov 2023, 14:30 GMT
- Last source update
- 24 May 2024, 11:59 BST
- Award evaluation window
- 12 Dec 2029 – …
- Authority reference
2023/S 000-035223- FTS notice number
2024/S 000-016441- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-041db6Find a Tender
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Apply via In-tend- Requests to participate (first stage)
- —
- Appointment period ends
- 12 Dec 2029, 12:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- —
- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission","written"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bids opened
- 12 Dec 2029, 12:01 GMT
Timeline
24 May 2024 → 12 Dec 2029 · 3 dates- Notice published24 May 2024, 11:59 BST
- Today22 Oct 2026
- Admission / appointment period endsperiod end, not a bid countdown12 Dec 2029, 12:00 GMT
- Bids opened12 Dec 2029, 12:01 GMT
Notice history
2 releases on Find a TenderPublished amendments (1 · 0 deadline changes)
| When | What | Before | After | Shift |
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| — | TextCommunication · I.3 | The procurement documents are available for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge, at: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/sesharedservices/aspx/tenders/current . Additional information can be obtained from the above-mentioned addressTenders or requests to participate must be submitted electronically via: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/sesharedservices/aspx/tenders/current . Tenders or requests 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
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Economic and financial selection criteria
- Technical selection criteria