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AwardedFind a Tender · award
BuyerBolton Metropolitan Borough Council
StatusAwarded
DeadlineNot published
Value£4,800,000
Published14 Aug 2026

What is being bought

Section 19 of the Education act 1996 is the statutory duty to provide suitable education for all children and young people of compulsory school age who cannot access mainstream school places. This includes, permanently excluded pupils, and pupils who, because of illness or other reasons, cannot attend mainstream. Bolton Council determine the number of high needs places required each year and submits the figures to the DfE by December 5th for the following academic year. These are finalised and published in February before September term starts. This process should reflect planned and predicted changes for the following academic year, so that schools and colleges receive an appropriate level of core funding, that enables them to make the special provision that is to be commissioned, particularly any expansion of that provision. The Authority intends to Direct Award this provision for one year to Bolton Impact Trust for the Academic Year 2026 to 2027 in accordance with section 41 and Schedule 5 clause 6(a) and (b) of the Procurement Act 2023: 6(a)due to an absence of competition for technical reasons, only a particular supplier can supply the goods, services or works required, and 6(b)there are no reasonable alternatives to those goods, services or works. There is an absence of competition for technical reasons including size of premises to support placements, and the expectation to deliver the service for the whole of Bolton. Only this supplier can supply the services within the timescales required due to the specific requirements and there are no reasonable alternatives to provide this service. The intention is to run an Open Tender process for the 2027-2028 provision and to run a further process for the 2028 provision onwards.

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statuscomplete

Comparable-procurement analytics

No usable CPV category has been published, so a comparable market set cannot yet be built.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementNot published
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimelightTouch
Covered byNot published
Submission policyNot published
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents0
Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Awards

Section 19

Statuspending
Value£4,000,000
Contract periodFrom 1 Sept 2026 to 31 Aug 2027

Documents & submission route

No documents are published in the current source record.

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-06cfbf
Latest release ID077544-2026
Latest release timestampFri Aug 14 2026 09:28:09 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLNot published
Tender statuscomplete
Procurement methoddirect
Procurement method detailsDirect award
Main procurement categoryNot published
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: endNot published
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadlineNot published
Award period: startNot published
Award period: endNot published
Submission method detailsNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender valueNot published
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source0
Tender documents in source0
Awards in latest release1
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release2

Notice history

DateEventReference
14 Aug 2026award, contract077544-2026
13 Aug 2026award, contract077403-2026
21 Jul 2026planning068655-2026

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

Complete current OCDS release JSON
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Complete JSON history (3 releases)
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13 Aug 2026 · 077403-2026 · award, contract
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21 Jul 2026 · 068655-2026 · planning
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