Official UK procurement notice
Short Breaks and Emergency Provision
Authority: Lincolnshire County Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionProvision of planned and emergency short breaks for adults in Lincolnshire.
CPV: Health and social work services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewal
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Lincolnshire County Council buys Health and social work services (CPV 85), and who usually turns up
Lincolnshire County Council’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Health and social work services (CPV 85) →
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. Small firms win more of this buyer’s work than the market’s: 89% against 51%, n=100.
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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.
Here, local means registered in East Midlands.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in East Midlands. More of this buyer’s work stays local than in this market: 93% against 63%, n=110.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards were announced within 42 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.
Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
Direct awards or one recorded bid are common here. Check the route before spending time on a bid.
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 bid16% / 18%
2–337% / 35%
4–611% / 24%
7+37% / 22%
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 estimate20% / 29%
Within ±2%80% / 63%
Above estimate0% / 7%
Assess each lot i
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 #1Published estimate£5.5m
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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 278 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid18%
2–335%
4–624%
7+22%
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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- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- 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 (CPTPP, GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 16 Apr 2025, 13:12 BST
- Last source update
- 22 May 2026, 14:20 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 23 Nov 2025
- Authority reference
Short Breaks- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-047966- Latest notice
- Pipeline notice (UK1)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-050403Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Requests to participate (first stage)
- 12 Oct 2025, 17:00 BST
- Submission deadline
- 12 Oct 2025, 17:00 BST
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
The procurement will be run on ProContract.
DN729107 reference - Short Breaks and Emergency Provision
Timeline
16 Apr 2025 → 1 Apr 2027 · 7 dates- Planning notice published16 Apr 2025, 13:12 BST
- Market engagement29 Apr 2025, 00:59 BST
A questionnaire to help the Council understand the best way in which to structure and procure contracts to deliver its short breaks provision. We are looking at options to deliver the short breaks and emergency service in a different way. This may involve commissioning services from alternative locations. To inform this work, we are undertaking a pre-tender market engagement exercise. This will help the Council to understand the views of provider on issues surrounding the delivery of services, and to inform decision around the procurement process.
Please refer to ProContract:
URL : procontract.due-north.com ↗
Reference: DN769888
Project Title: Short Breaks and Emergency Provision
- Submission deadline373 days ago12 Oct 2025, 17:00 BST
- Award decision expected by331 days ago23 Nov 2025, 23:59 GMT
- Latest notice published151 days ago22 May 2026, 14:20 BST
- Today20 Oct 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 42 days1 Dec 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 162 days1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
3 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 16 Apr 2025- Planned procurement notice published16 Apr 2025, 13:12 BSTUK3
- Preliminary market engagement notice published16 Apr 2025, 14:04 BSTUK2
- Pipeline notice published22 May 2026, 14:20 BSTUK1
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 (3)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Pipeline notice Pipeline notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Planned procurement notice Planned procurement notice on Find a Tender