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Shared Lives

Buyer: Cornwall Council →

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BuyerCornwall Council
StatusClosed
Deadline4 Sept 2026
Value£18,000,000
Published23 Jul 2026

What is being bought

Shared Lives is an adult placement service, predominantly utilised by adults with learning disabilities/and or autism, but also supporting older people and people with mental health conditions. Indiviudals live in the home of the host family (referred to as a Shared Lives Carer) and receive the care and support required. Cornwall has the largest shared lives provision in the South West, with 115 people being supported long-term and 60 people being regularly supported with short-breaks.

Delivery location

UKK3, GB

Categories

Social work and related services 85300000

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statusactive
Value£18,000,000
Contract periodFrom 1 Apr 2027 to 31 Mar 2031
SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

Award criteria
Quality — Method Statements (70%)
Social Value — Social Value Spreadsheet (10%)
Price — Acceptance of the fee methodology, including defined fee rates. (20%)

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Social work and related servicesNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 85. The category anchor is Social work and related services (85300000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison setProceduresReported bids per procedureNamed award suppliersPrice evidence
Market: CPV division 8510,9121 median · 39.3 average (4,502 of 10,912 with a bid count)2 average (5,160 of 10,912 with named award suppliers)10 comparable price pairs
Same buyer32Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Delivery region: UKK32767 median · 712.7 average (3 of 27 with a bid count)20.7 average (3 of 27 with named award suppliers)Not published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)3773.5 median · 442.8 average (10 of 377 with a bid count)7.5 average (10 of 377 with named award suppliers)Not published

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Indicative price outcome

£11,710,791 is the median lowest-valid-bid benchmark for the broad CPV market sample, against this procedure’s published value of £18,000,000.

This is a historical comparator, not a bid-price forecast or a guaranteed saving. It excludes records where the published values cannot be sensibly compared and does not adjust for lot structure, quality weighting, framework terms or scope.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementYes
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimelightTouch
Covered byNot published
Submission policyallowed
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsRefer to published ITT documents/

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.

Documents & submission route

Source data inventory

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

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-06105f
Latest release ID069665-2026
Latest release timestampThu Jul 23 2026 11:36:45 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLhttps://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/069665-2026
Tender statusactive
Procurement methodopen
Procurement method detailsOpen procedure
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdYes
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: end2026-09-04T17:00:00+01:00
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadline2026-08-28T17:00:00+01:00
Award period: startNot published
Award period: end2026-11-30T23:59:59+00:00
Submission method detailswww.cornwall.gov.uk
Submission languagesen
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender value£18,000,000
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source2
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release1

Notice history

DateEventReference
23 Jul 2026tender069665-2026
28 Jan 2026planning007383-2026

All source data

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

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28 Jan 2026 · 007383-2026 · planning
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