Official UK procurement notice
Room to Grow - Garden rental rooms for foster carers
Authority: Somerset Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThis is not a call for competition and is not yet a contract opportunity.
** PLEASE NOTE: By Expressing an Interest in this event via the portal you are not confirming your place at the event. Please follow the instructions below to reserve your place. **
Background
Here at Somerset Council we are excited to be exploring ways to support our foster carers to increase their fostering capacity by freeing up an internal bedroom. We are hoping to do this via funding rental garden rooms in which they can house their home office, hobby room, gym, storage or for any other reason that is currently blocking a room in the house which could be used for fostering.
The idea of renting the garden room would be should the carer decide to stop fostering we will no longer pay the rent to the foster carer. The carer can either choose to continue the contract themselves or terminate the contract and the garden room be removed.
We are aware of a provider that is currently offering this service but that does not cover the majority of our county and fostering area and who only offer specific sizes of garden room to rent. We would therefore be keen to engage with anyone that currently offers this service or would be interested in expanding their business to do so in order to offer our foster carers more choice.
By providing this service to our foster carers and increasing their ability to care for more looked after young people you will be supporting children in care to remain closer to home and improving their outcomes.
It is anticipated that any new arrangements would commence from December 2025.
CPV: Prefabricated buildings
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Planned
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Goods
- Notice status
- Past planning notice
- 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
- 16 Sept 2025, 10:24 BST
- Last source update
- 16 Sept 2025, 10:24 BST
- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-056835- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-059b03Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
16 Sept 2025 → 1 Dec 2025 · 3 dates- Planning notice published16 Sept 2025, 10:24 BST
- Market engagement377 days ago13 Oct 2025, 23:59 BST
Preliminary Market Engagement Event
A Preliminary Market Engagement event will be held on 13.10.2025 at 11:00am. Somerset Council are inviting organisations, that might be interested in delivering these services either individually or in partnership with others to attend. The event will be an opportunity to inform and shape future options. Somerset Council are keen to hear feedback from a range of providers as part of the wider consultation for this service.
Organisations that take part will not be advantaged or disadvantaged in any way in any potential future formal procurement. Commercial confidentiality will be respected. This notice does not represent a formal commitment by Somerset Council to undertake a procurement procedure.
Event Details:
- Date: Monday 13th October 2025
- Time: 11am
- Venue: Virtual, teams link to follow.
If you are unable to attend the event but would like to register interest for your company please answer the following questions:
- Do you currently offer rental garden rooms? If so, what is your current lead time for installation?
- If it is not something you currently offer but would be willing to explore this within your business please advise how long you think this would take to set up and when you would be able to start offering this service?
- Would your service include the full package- flooring, insulation, lights and an electrician to connect and provide safety certificate? If not, please advise what it would include or what would be optional extras.
- Please confirm what geographical area you would be able to deliver and install to.
Please email responses to [email protected]
Event Registration:
To attend this event please send a message to [email protected] providing the name of your organisation, the name of the person(s) wishing to attend (Max 2 per organisation) and a contact email address for each to enable us to send through the full details of the event and the venue.
Please ensure that those attending from your organisation are the most appropriate to feed into the discussions. If you are unable to attend the event, the presentation, notes and associated documentation will be available through the e-tender system supplierlive.proactisp2p.com/Account/Login ↗
Deadline for registering: 08.10.2025
Somerset Council reserves the right to cancel or re-arrange this event at its own discretion.
Thank you.
- Contract starts329 days ago1 Dec 2025
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published16 Sept 2025, 10:24 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