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Regulation 44 Independent Visitor

Buyer: Cornwall Council →

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BuyerCornwall Council
StatusClosed
Deadline11 Aug 2025
Value£150,000
Published22 Jul 2025

What is being bought

Regulation 44 Independent Visits for Children Homes in Cornwall

Delivery location

UK, GB

Categories

Health and social work services 85000000Other community, social and personal services 98000000

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statusactive
Value£150,000
Contract periodFrom 1 Oct 2025 to 30 Sept 2026
SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

Award criteria
Quality Criteria (2000) words — Criteria Fully vetted, knowledgeable professionals, trained in conducting thorough, supportive and rigorous monthly visits. 20% Professional expertise in either the management and delivery of short breaks and residential care for disabled children, or experience of working in a quality assurance in relation to children’s residential services. 20% Experience or demonstrable ability to write comprehensive reports that provide clear analysis and recommendations on areas for improvement. Considerable skill in auditing and inspection, communication and analysis. 15% Have knowledge of Cornwall and IoS Safeguarding policy and procedures and can confirm ability to work to these. 5% Excellent understanding of children’s home legislation, national minimum standards, guidance and regulations. 10% Mobilisation - Provide a detailed plan including mobilization period with timelines, milestones, risks and mitigations with expectation that the service will be fully mobilized from 1st October 2025. 10% (80%)
Commerical / Pricing — Include all capital and revenue costs, broken down into sufficient detail, and including but not restricted to, staffing costs (number of posts, hours, etc), venue costs, travel costs, equipment, management oncosts etc. Also any in-kind funding received – or any added value. (20%)

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Health and social work services, Other community, social and personal servicesNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 85. The category anchor is Health and social work services (85000000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison setProceduresReported bids per procedureNamed award suppliersPrice evidence
Market: CPV division 8511,3611 median · 41.7 average (4,750 of 11,361 with a bid count)2.2 average (5,431 of 11,361 with named award suppliers)10 comparable price pairs
Same buyer34Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Delivery region: UK6591 median · 59.6 average (221 of 659 with a bid count)4.6 average (251 of 659 with named award suppliers)1 comparable price pairs
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)3941 median · 2.5 average (25 of 394 with a bid count)1 average (29 of 394 with named award suppliers)2 comparable price pairs

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Indicative price outcome

£97,590 is the median lowest-valid-bid benchmark for the broad CPV market sample, against this procedure’s published value of £150,000.

This is a historical comparator, not a bid-price forecast or a guaranteed saving. It excludes records where the published values cannot be sensibly compared and does not adjust for lot structure, quality weighting, framework terms or scope.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementNot published
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimelightTouch
Covered byNot published
Submission policyallowed
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents0
Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-056370
Latest release ID041849-2025
Latest release timestampTue Jul 22 2025 08:56:54 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLhttps://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/041849-2025
Tender statusactive
Procurement methodopen
Procurement method detailsBelow threshold - open competition
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdNo
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: end2025-08-11T11:59:00+01:00
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadline2025-08-06T12:00:00+01:00
Award period: startNot published
Award period: endNot published
Submission method detailsProactis - Please see attached documents before submitting https://supplierlive.proactisp2p.com/Account/Login#
Submission languagesNot published
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender value£150,000
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source2
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release1

Notice history

DateEventReference
22 Jul 2025tenderUpdate041849-2025
22 Jul 2025tender041836-2025

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

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