Official UK procurement notice
Regulation 44 Visitor service
Authority: BIRMINGHAM CHILDREN'S TRUST COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionBirmingham Children's Trust requires a provider to deliver a monthly Regulation 44 Visitor Service for Birmingham Children's Trust internal residential homes and produce a report thereon. The purpose of the Service is to ensure that the day-to-day care provided in Birmingham Children's Trust residential homes for children meets the required Quality Standards and that the Reg 44 Officer employed to undertake the Reg 44 visits, will provide critical and constructive feedback to improve services and highlight areas of good practice in accordance with Children's Homes (England) Regulations 2015. This critical feedback will serve as an early indicator of the likely outcome of any Ofsted inspection of the homes.
CPV: Health and social work services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1RenewalPublished value£120,000
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).
Lot awarding rule: Quality will account for 70% of the overall award criteria - Price will account for 30% of the overall award criteria.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Below threshold - open competition
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Closed
- Procurement threshold
- Below threshold
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 1 Jun 2026, 17:31 BST
- Last source update
- 1 Jun 2026, 17:31 BST
- Authority reference
2908REG25- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-051601- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06aacdFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 22 Jun 2026, 12:00 BST
- Clarification deadline
- 15 Jun 2026, 23:59 BST
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
Timeline
1 Jun 2026 → 1 Sept 2026 · 4 dates- Tender notice published143 days ago1 Jun 2026, 17:31 BST
- Clarification questions by129 days ago15 Jun 2026, 23:59 BST
- Submission deadline122 days ago22 Jun 2026, 12:00 BST
- Contract starts52 days ago1 Sept 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published1 Jun 2026, 17:31 BSTUK4
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
Notices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender