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Published 11 Apr 2025, 17:17 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Rough Sleeping Prevention Service (North)

Official notice

Authority: Cheshire East Council (Local council)

ServicesCompetitive flexible procedureAbove thresholdLight touch regimeSME suitable
Sectors: Real estate services (70)Health & Social Care (85) Delivery: North West (UKD62)
Published estimate£2,200,000≈ £629k / year · £2,640,000 inc. VAT
Submissions closed 2 Jun 2025awarded 7 Jul 2025
Awarded to Adullam Homes Housing Association Limited
Contract term 3 yrs 6 moends 31 Mar 2029 · up to 31 Mar 2031 with extensions · starts 1 Oct 2025

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The provider will work in partnership with Cheshire East Council to deliver creative and diverse solutions with a goal to end rough sleeping and homelessness in Cheshire East, through a framework of multi-agency support and flexible accommodation delivery.

The purpose of this service is to help Cheshire East Council to achieve the 4 key priorities outlined in our Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Strategy:

  • Enable people to remain in their own home
  • Enable people who are homeless to secure appropriate accommodation.
  • Provide interventions to prevent / reduce rough sleeping
  • Ensure adequate support is in place to help maintain and sustain accommodation

The total overall value of the contract is £2,199,990 for a period of 5.5 years. The initial

period is 3.5 years (42 months) with 2 x 12 month optional extensions.

Extensions will be implemented at the sole discretion of the Council.

  • The authority expects to re-tender this requirement around 1 Apr 2030, 23:59 BST.
  • How the procedure runs: The procurement process adopted by the Council is based upon the Competitive Flexible procedure. In brief, the process will be as follows: All suppliers that express an interest in the opportunity will be provided with access to the tender documents including Procurement Specific Questionnaire (PSQ) Response Document that contains pass/fail conditions of participation and a Competitive Flexible Procedure (CFP) Response Document that contains the award stage Pricing Schedule, Qualitative Questions and Provider Presentation Requirements. Both the PSQ Response Document and the CFP Response Document require completion in full and submission, at the same time, prior to the tender deadline All tenderers that pass the conditions of participation (PSQ) will progress to the award stage and their CFP Response document will be assessed. All tenderers that pass the conditions of participation (PSQ) will be invited to deliver a qualitative presentation and have this assessed as part of the award stage. Tenderers that fail the conditions of participation, contained within the PSQ response document, will not progress to award stage and their CFP response document will not be assessed.

CPV: Property management services of real estate on a fee or contract basis · Social work services with accommodation

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · value published
Lot #1AwardedRenewal 3 yrs 6 moPublished value£2,200,000
Contract period: 1 Oct 2025 – 31 Mar 2029 (3 yrs 6 mo) · up to 31 Mar 2031 with extensionsValue: £2,200,000 exc. VAT · £2,640,000 inc. VAT
Delivery: North West
Extensions: This is a contract with an initial term of 42 months from 01/10/25 - 31/03/29 with 2 x 12 months optional extensions to be extended at the sole discretion of the Council. The last possible end date, if extensions are implemented, is 31/03/2031.
70330000 Property management services of real estate on a fee or contract basis85311000 Social work services with accommodation
Pre-qualification & selection criteria (PQQ)2
  • Economic & financial standing

    Please refer to Procurement Documents (PSQ Response Document) by expressing an interest in Project ID DN771371 at www.the-chest.org.uk ↗

  • Technical & professional ability

    Please refer to Procurement Documents (PSQ Response Document) by expressing an interest in Project ID DN771371 at www.the-chest.org.uk ↗

What it takes to win
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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 more
How bids were scored
Quality: 90%Price: 10%
Published sub-criteria (3)
  • Qualitative Questions: 80%
  • Presentation: 10%
  • Financial Evaluation: 10%
Published award criteria (3)
  • Financial Evaluation
  • Qualitative Questions: Written Responses
  • Presentation: Provider Presentation
Conditions of participation2
  • Economic & financial standing

    Please refer to Procurement Documents (PSQ Response Document) by expressing an interest in Project ID DN771371 at www.the-chest.org.uk ↗

  • Technical & professional ability

    Please refer to Procurement Documents (PSQ Response Document) by expressing an interest in Project ID DN771371 at www.the-chest.org.uk ↗

What this means for your bid
  • Price carries 10 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 1 point. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.

Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Procedure method
Competitive flexible procedure
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Awarded
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
Yes (GPA)
Recurring procurement
Yes · next expected 1 Apr 2030
First published
11 Apr 2025, 17:17 BST
Last source update
13 Oct 2025, 11:52 BST
Award evaluation window
Submission end – 23 Jun 2025
Authority reference
C3738
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-014779
Latest notice
Contract details notice (UK7)
Classification (CPV)
Property management services of real estate on a fee or contract basisSocial work services with accommodation
Delivery area
North West (UKD62)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0501f7 Find a Tender
Contract terms summary

Please refer to Appendix B Conditions of Contract & Appendix B.1 TUPE Schedule. The TUPE Liability information is attached at Appendix D.

How it runs

The procurement process adopted by the Council is based upon the Competitive Flexible procedure.

In brief, the process will be as follows:

All suppliers that express an interest in the opportunity will be provided with access to the tender documents including Procurement Specific Questionnaire (PSQ) Response Document that contains pass/fail conditions of participation and a Competitive Flexible Procedure (CFP) Response Document that contains the award stage Pricing Schedule, Qualitative Questions and Provider Presentation Requirements.

Both the PSQ Response Document and the CFP Response Document require completion in full and submission, at the same time, prior to the tender deadline

All tenderers that pass the conditions of participation (PSQ) will progress to the award stage and their CFP Response document will be assessed.

All tenderers that pass the conditions of participation (PSQ) will be invited to deliver a qualitative presentation and have this assessed as part of the award stage.

Tenderers that fail the conditions of participation, contained within the PSQ response document, will not progress to award stage and their CFP response document will not be assessed.

How it was run

Official notice
Run through: ProContract (Due North) · Who buys & how to bid on ProContract
Supplier login requiredElectronic submission allowedLanguage: EN
Access & registration note: Free · short registration with manual review; public opportunity list
Submission deadline
2 Jun 2025, 10:00 BST
Submission channel
Official e-sourcing portal
Electronic submission
Allowed
Accepted languages
en
Detailed submission instructions & authority contactsFrom official release

Tenders must be submitted at www.the-chest.org.uk ↗ Project ID DN771371

Unrestricted access to this opportunity is available via the Chest North West Portal, register for free at www.the-chest.org.uk ↗ and express an interest in project ID DN771371

Timeline

11 Apr 2025 → 13 Oct 2025 · 7 dates
  1. Tender notice published
    11 Apr 2025, 17:17 BST
  2. Submission deadline
    2 Jun 2025, 10:00 BST
  3. Award decision expected by
    23 Jun 2025, 23:59 BST
  4. Assessment summaries sent
    8 Jul 2025, 00:00 BST
  5. Standstill ends
    18 Jul 2025, 23:59 BST
  6. Contract starts386 days ago
    1 Oct 2025, 00:00 BST
  7. Latest notice published374 days ago
    13 Oct 2025, 11:52 BST

Notice history

5 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 11 Apr 2025
  1. Tender notice published
    11 Apr 2025, 17:17 BST
    UK4
  2. Contract award notice published
    8 Jul 2025, 12:56 BST
    UK6
  3. Status changed to complete
    8 Jul 2025, 12:56 BST
  4. Contract signature expected
    22 Jul 2025, 23:59 BST
    scheduled
  5. Contract details notice published
    13 Oct 2025, 11:52 BST
    UK7

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast
Awards 1
Awarded value £2,199,9901 award exc. VAT
Bids received 22 from SMEs
Contracts signed 1latest 2 Oct 2025
Awarded toValueDateStatus
Adullam Homes Housing Association LimitedSME1 Oct 2025 – 31 Mar 2029 · up to 31 Mar 2031Extensions: 2 x 12 month extensions available. Extensions will be implemented at the sole discretion of the Council.£2,199,9907 Jul 2025Awarded

Contracts

  • Rough Sleeping Prevention Service (North) · Adullam Homes Housing Association LimitedSME

    Signed
    2 Oct 2025
    Value
    £2,199,990
    Period
    2 Oct 2025 – 31 Mar 2029 · up to 31 Mar 2031 with extensions
    Status
    active
    Extensions
    2 x 12 month optional extensions to be implemented at the sole discretion of the Council.

Bid statistics published by the authority

BidsSMEVCSEValid bid range
2final-stage tenders · 5 at stage one20—

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Cheshire East Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PTWR-7124-XZXQ Delamere House, Delamere Street, Crewe, North West, CW12JZContact name, email, phone

Bidders & participating suppliers

1 commercial party on the notice

Official documents & specifications (5)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Tender pack and attachments

  • Bidding documents and specifications tenderBidding documents and specificationsUnrestricted access to this opportunity is available via the Chest North West Portal, register for free at https://www.the-chest.org.uk/ and express an interest in project ID DN771371
  • Bidding documents and specifications tenderBidding documents and specificationsUnrestricted access to this opportunity is available via the Chest North West Portal, register for free at https://www.the-chest.org.uk/ and express an interest in project ID DN771371

Notices published for this procedure

  • Contract details notice contractContract details noticeUK7Contract details notice on Find a Tender
  • Contract award notice awardContract award noticeUK6Contract award notice on Find a Tender
  • Tender notice tenderTender noticeUK4Tender notice on Find a Tender