Official UK procurement notice
Respite Care for Adults with Learning Disabilities and Complex Needs - Market Research
Authority: Angus Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionAs part of Market Research, Angus Council is interested to hear from Providers that can provide a 4 Bed Respite Service in Angus for adults with a learning disability and complex needs. At least one of these rooms must have suitable accessibility and adaptations to meet the needs of individuals who also have a physical disability. As part of this market research exercise, we have attached a Summary of Requirements and provided a link for a MS Forms questionnaire for completion. This is not a call for competition. The estimated value provided in II.1.5 is an approximate value for one year
CPV: Social work services with accommodation
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1This Prior Information Notice is for information gathering and market research onlyPlanned
This Prior Information Notice is for information gathering and market research only. This is not a call for competition. A Summary document is attached. Respite Care for Adult with Learning Disabilities and complex needs in Angus, The service will provide respite care which will be for 24 hours per day, 365 nights per annum for Supported People assessed by Angus Health and Social Care Partnership (Angus HSCP) as suitable to receive the service. Supported People accessing the service have a variety of care needs. Additional information: Please see the attached document Summary of Requirement - Respite 2026 for more information on the service. Also provided in the document is a link to a MS Form for market engagement purposes that we would like to Providers to populate. Questionnaire closes 5pm Monday 23 February 2026 If you require the questionnaire in a different format to MS Forms please contact [email protected]
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Angus Council buys Social work services (CPV 8531), and who usually turns up
Angus Council’s published record next to the market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. 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.
Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in Scotland.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards have an award date within 52 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.
Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.
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% / 36%
2–343% / 34%
4–643% / 18%
7+0% / 11%
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 estimate60% / 31%
Within ±2%40% / 50%
Above estimate0% / 19%
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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 #1This Prior Information Notice is for information gathering and market research onlyCPV 8531Published estimate£423k
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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 44 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid36%
2–334%
4–618%
7+11%
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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 · publisher note attached- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- 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
- 26 Jan 2026, 11:50 GMT
- Last source update
- 26 Jan 2026, 11:50 GMT
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-006578- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-060e55Find a Tender
Publisher note: Please note this exercise is for market research purposes. This is not a call for competition NOTE: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the Public Contracts Scotland Web Site at https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=821292. (SC Ref:821292)
How it was run
Official noticeTender documents are also served through a separate tool: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk ↗
- Submission deadline
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Timeline
26 Jan 2026 → 1 Jul 2026 · 2 dates- Notice published271 days ago26 Jan 2026, 11:50 GMT
- Tender notice expected115 days ago1 Jul 2026, 00:00 BST
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
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.