Official UK procurement notice
Children & Young People's Homecare & Sitting Service (Short Breaks Specialist) Lot 1; and Children and Young People's Outreach Support Service (Short Breaks Specialist) Lot 2
Authority: Borough Council of Calderdale (Local council)
What is being bought2 lots · detail below
Published requirement descriptionLot 1: Home Care and Sitting services are recognised as 'Specialist' Short Breaks services. Home Care and Sitting services are home-based support services that are provided in the child or young person's own home, either during the day or overnight. They are designed to promote children's wellbeing, independence and safety whilst providing parent carers with meaningful respite and helping to sustain family-based care arrangements.
Lot 2: Outreach Support is a personalised, planned, one to one (or with higher staff ratios if assessed) short break service for disabled children and young people. Outreach Support helps Individuals to achieve outcomes, develop independence, increase social inclusion, and participate in activities both within their local community or within their home. They are designed to promote children's wellbeing, independence and safety whilst providing parents and carers with meaningful respite and helping to sustain family-based care arrangements.
Contracts are awarded on a no-guarantee of work basis. Further details can be found in the service specifications for the relevant Lots uploaded with the procurement pack.
- How the procedure runs: Step 1 - Stage 1 Invitation to Participate Step 2 - Bidders Request to Participate and submit PSQ and associated documents and response to quality question Step 3 - Compliance checks and assessment of quality question Step 4 - Stage 2 Invitation to Tender/become a tenderer Step 5 - Invited Tenderers submit tender documents including responses to quality questions Step 6 - Assessment of quality questions Step 7 - Due Diligence on successful tenderers Step 8 - Notifications and Standstill Period Step 9 - Contract Award
CPV: Health and social work services
Lots and requirements (2)Procurement structure
2 lots · all with a published value (£4,030,830 together) · same evaluation weights on every lotLot #1Children & Young People's Home Care and Sitting Service (Short Breaks - Specialist)RenewalPublished value£282,180
Home Care and Sitting services are recognised as 'Specialist' Short Breaks services. Home Care and Sitting services are home-based support services that are provided in the child or young person's own home, either during the day or overnight. They are designed to promote children's wellbeing, independence and safety whilst providing parent carers with meaningful respite and helping to sustain family-based care arrangements.
Contracts are awarded on a no-guarantee of work basis. Further details can be found in the service specification uploaded with the procurement documents.
Lot #2Children & Young People's Outreach Support Service (Short Breaks - Specialist)RenewalPublished value£3,748,650
Outreach Support is a personalised, planned, one to one (or with higher staff ratios if assessed) short break service for disabled children and young people. Outreach Support helps Individuals to achieve outcomes, develop independence, increase social inclusion, and participate in activities both within their local community or within their home. They are designed to promote children's wellbeing, independence and safety whilst providing parents and carers with meaningful respite and helping to sustain family-based care arrangements.
Contracts are awarded on a no-guarantee of work basis. Further details can be found in the Service Specification.
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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).
Published award criteria (1)
- Quality
No conditions of participation were published on the notice; check the tender documents.
- Turnover usually expected: about £140,993 – ~£1,873,042 per lot (twice each lot's annual value).
Turnover is an indicative market norm (≈2× annual value), not a published condition.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How Borough Council of Calderdale buys Health and social work services (CPV 85), and who usually turns up
Borough Council of Calderdale’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) →
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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 Yorkshire and the Humber.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in Yorkshire and the Humber.
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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 90 days of the bid deadline.
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Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.
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How many bids past lots received.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid40% / 26%
2–30% / 32%
4–620% / 25%
7+40% / 17%
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 estimate43% / 27%
Within ±2%57% / 65%
Above estimate0% / 7%
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No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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Lot #1Children & Young People's Home Care and Sitting Service (Short Breaks - Specialist)CPV 85000000Published estimate£282k
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1 bid27%
2–329%
4–627%
7+16%
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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.
Based on 297 comparable awards. Each lot reflects its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative.
A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.
Middle 50%£282k
Estimate£282k
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None is confirmed as a bidder.
| Supplier | Won in this category | Live contracts | Award vs estimate |
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Endorphins Group LtdLarge | £1.3m10 awards in 36m · last 8 months ago | 1 live · £880k iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | at estimate n=1 |
| 3 awards in 36m · last 6 months ago | 2 live · £195m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | no comparable pairs | |
| 2 awards in 36m · last 8 months ago | 1 live · £11m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | no comparable pairs | |
| 3 awards in 36m · last 9 months ago | 1 live · £11m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | no comparable pairs | |
| 3 awards in 36m · last 9 months ago | None on file | no comparable pairs |
Lot #2Children & Young People's Outreach Support Service (Short Breaks - Specialist)CPV 85000000Published estimate£3.7m
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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.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid24%
2–329%
4–632%
7+14%
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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.
Based on 297 comparable awards. Each lot reflects its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative.
A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.
Middle 50%£3.7m–£3.7m
Estimate£3.7m
Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
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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.
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.
| Supplier | Won in this category | Live contracts | Award vs estimate |
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Endorphins Group LtdLarge | £1.3m10 awards in 36m · last 8 months ago | 1 live · £880k iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | at estimate n=1 |
| £3.1m11 awards in 36m · last 6 months ago | None on file | no comparable pairs | |
| 5 awards in 36m · last 3 months ago | 3 live iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | no comparable pairs | |
| 3 awards in 36m · last 6 months ago | 2 live · £195m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | no comparable pairs | |
| 2 awards in 36m · last 8 months ago | 1 live · £11m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | no comparable pairs |
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 match score are our estimates from past awards: not published facts, not win chances and not price advice. Official notices do not say who is bidding.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
42% title match.
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.
42% title match.
A past supplier may not bid again.
The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (42% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid
Approved Provider Lists for Outreach Service for Adults, Children and Young People and Day & Night Sitting Service for Adults, Children and Young People (Lot 1+3 - Council, Lot 2+4 -CCG), winner not published; no contract end date published.
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
- Requests to participate open
- 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
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 21 Jan 2026, 14:02 GMT
- Last source update
- 16 Oct 2026, 16:41 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 18 Jan 2027
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-098186- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-060b2aFind a Tender
- How it runs
Step 1 - Stage 1 Invitation to Participate
Step 2 - Bidders Request to Participate and submit PSQ and associated documents and response to quality question
Step 3 - Compliance checks and assessment of quality question
Step 4 - Stage 2 Invitation to Tender/become a tenderer
Step 5 - Invited Tenderers submit tender documents including responses to quality questions
Step 6 - Assessment of quality questions
Step 7 - Due Diligence on successful tenderers
Step 8 - Notifications and Standstill Period
Step 9 - Contract Award
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Submit via EU-Supply (CTM)- Requests to participate (first stage)
- 29 Oct 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Tender submission deadline
- 29 Oct 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 26 Oct 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Request to participate must be made through the YORtender Portal (yortender.eu-supply.com ↗)
Timeline
21 Jan 2026 → 1 Nov 2027 · 7 dates- Planning notice published272 days ago21 Jan 2026, 14:02 GMT
- Market engagement239 days ago22 Feb 2026, 23:59 GMT
We would like to hear from organisations who can provide high-quality, inclusive services that enable children and young people to access fun, safe activities and support families to have a break from caring. Our aim is to ensure services are sustainable, culturally appropriate, and responsive to local needs. Providers are invited to complete the relevant online questionnaire through the links below:
Targeted Provision Questionnaire
(forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx ↗)
Specialist Provision Questionnaire
(forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx ↗)
Questionnaires must be completed no later than Sunday 22 February 2026.
A summary of responses and preliminary commissioning ideas will be presented at engagement events where attendees will have the opportunity to contribute to shaping the future short breaks offer. These will take place:
Targeted Provision - Wednesday 18 March 2025, 10.00 - 11.00am via Microsoft Teams
Specialist Provision - Wednesday 25 March 2025, 10.00 - 11.00am via Microsoft Teams
Organisations wishing to attend one or both engagement events should email [email protected] to reserve a place (maximum 2 persons per organisation). Invitations will be sent prior to the event.
- Tender notice published3 days ago16 Oct 2026, 16:41 BST
- Today20 Oct 2026
- Clarification questions byin 6 days26 Oct 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Submission deadlinein 9 days29 Oct 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Award decision expected byin 91 days18 Jan 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 377 days1 Nov 2027
Notice history
6 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 21 Jan 2026- Preliminary market engagement notice published21 Jan 2026, 14:02 GMTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published21 Jan 2026, 14:50 GMTUK2
- Tender notice published16 Oct 2026, 16:41 BSTUK4
- Published value published: £4,030,83016 Oct 2026, 16:41 BST
- Status changed to active16 Oct 2026, 16:41 BST
- Procurement method changed16 Oct 2026, 16:41 BST
Published amendments (1)
The links to the questionnaires have been amended.
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Nothing awarded yet- 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
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender