Official UK procurement notice
Residential Accommodation and Support Services for Adults with Learning Disabilities, Autism and Complex Needs
Authority: Royal Borough of Greenwich (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Royal Borough of Greenwich is undertaking preliminary market engagement to inform the future commissioning and procurement of residential accommodation and support services for adults with learning disabilities, autism and complex needs.
The Council is reviewing future arrangements for five Council-owned, CQC-registered residential care homes providing approximately 41 residential bed spaces. The Council owns the properties and acts as landlord.
The future service is expected to provide high-quality, person-centred residential care and support for adults aged 18 years and over with learning disabilities, autism, profound and multiple learning disabilities (PMLD), complex health needs and behaviours that may challenge.
The Council wishes to engage with potential providers to help shape future service models, procurement arrangements, property and lease arrangements, mobilisation requirements and contract structures.
Market Engagement
The Council seeks feedback on:
- Residential care delivery models, innovation and best practice.
- Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) and specialist support approaches.
- Promoting independence, progression and community inclusion.
- Workforce recruitment, retention and mobilisation.
- Property management, estate stewardship and facilities management.
- Building insurance, repairs, maintenance and asset management responsibilities.
- Contract structure, contract length and commercial arrangements.
- Mobilisation and service transition requirements.
- Current and anticipated cost pressures affecting service delivery.
- Opportunities to improve outcomes, sustainability and value for money.
The Council welcomes engagement from organisations with experience in residential care, learning disability services, autism services, accommodation-based support, property management and related services.
Market Engagement Activities
The Council may undertake:
- Market engagement questionnaires.
- Provider engagement events and workshops.
- One-to-one provider discussions.
- Follow-up clarification exercises.
CPV: Social work services with accommodation
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Royal Borough of Greenwich buys Social work services (CPV 8531), and who usually turns up
Royal Borough of Greenwich’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Social work services (CPV 8531) →
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.
Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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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 Greater London.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in Greater London.
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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 36 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.
Both shares are minimums: 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 bid12% / 23%
2–328% / 31%
4–620% / 20%
7+40% / 25%
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.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Below estimate76% / 28%
Within ±2%18% / 61%
Above estimate6% / 11%
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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 8531Estimate 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. The bar shows 103 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid23%
2–331%
4–620%
7+25%
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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.
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.
Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.
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
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Light touch regime
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 21 Oct 2026, 13:44 BST
- Last source update
- 21 Oct 2026, 13:44 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-099491- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-078ce0Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
21 Oct 2026 → 1 Apr 2028 · 3 dates- Planning notice publishedearlier today21 Oct 2026, 13:44 BST
- Today21 Oct 2026
- Market engagementin 15 days5 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
The Council welcomes engagement from organisations with experience of residential care, learning disability services, autism services, floating support, outreach support, supported living and other community-based support services.
The market engagement event will take place virtually on Microsoft Teams on Thursday 5th November 2026 at 12:30pm - 14:00pm.
To register your attendance, please email the People Procurement Team on [email protected]. Please provide the following information:
Organisation Name
Attendee Name(s)
Attendee Email Address(s)
Attendee Job Title(s)
Please note that there is a limit of three attendees per organisation.
- Contract starts1 Apr 2028
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published21 Oct 2026, 13:44 BSTUK2
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- 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 (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender