Official UK procurement notice
Short Breaks Services for Disabled Children and Young People and their Families
Authority: London Borough of Croydon (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe London Borough of Croydon is procuring Short Breaks and Family Support Services for disabled children and young people (0-19, up to 25 with SEND) and their families to provide inclusive activities, targeted support, and respite care.
Services will include activity-based short breaks (after-school, weekends, holidays), specialist provision for complex needs, and community/outreach support, delivered in accessible settings by trained staff.
The contract will be structured into multiple lots (geographical and specialist) to encourage market participation.
Contracts are expected to run for approximately 4 years with extension options, commencing April 2027, with individual lot values below £1m and delivery through a mixed economy of providers working collaboratively with Family Hubs and partners.
CPV: Education and training services · Health and social work services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How London Borough of Croydon buys Health and social work services (CPV 85), and who usually turns up
London Borough of Croydon’s published record next to the market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. 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.
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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.
Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in Greater London.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards have an award date within 97 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 bid13% / 26%
2–347% / 33%
4–627% / 24%
7+13% / 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 estimate30% / 37%
Within ±2%60% / 55%
Above estimate10% / 8%
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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.
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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 #1CPV 85Published estimate£564k
This lot lists more than one class in CPV 85. The comparison uses that group.
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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 2,288 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid24%
2–334%
4–624%
7+18%
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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.
| Supplier | This buyer’s earlier contract | Lot | Award value | Why listed |
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| Better Rehabilitation (UK Limited)Earlier contract | Speech and Language Therapy Services for Children and Young Peoplestarted Oct 2025 | — | £5.4m | Matched as the earlier contract |
| Allen Speech & Language LtdEarlier contract | Speech and Language Therapy Services for Children and Young Peoplestarted Oct 2025 | — | £5.4m | Matched as the earlier contract |
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.
What this replaces i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
45% 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.
45% title match.
A past supplier may not bid again.
The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (45% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid
Speech and Language Therapy Services for Children and Young People, winner not published; no contract end date published.
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
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 10 Nov 2025, 10:17 GMT
- Last source update
- 29 Jun 2026, 17:22 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-060941- Latest notice
- Pipeline notice (UK1)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05dd54Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
10 Nov 2025 → 1 Apr 2027 · 5 dates- Planning notice published350 days ago10 Nov 2025, 10:17 GMT
- Market engagement333 days ago26 Nov 2025, 23:59 GMT
Online market engagement event - details on how to register interest is in the description.
- Latest notice published119 days ago29 Jun 2026, 17:22 BST
- Tender notice expected25 days ago1 Oct 2026, 23:59 BST
- Today26 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 156 days1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
7 events · 4 releases on Find a Tender · since 10 Nov 2025- Preliminary market engagement notice published10 Nov 2025, 10:17 GMTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published10 Nov 2025, 16:01 GMTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published24 Nov 2025, 22:48 GMTUK2
- Pipeline notice published29 Jun 2026, 17:22 BSTUK1
- Published value published: £564,00029 Jun 2026, 17:22 BST
- Status changed to planned29 Jun 2026, 17:22 BST
- Procurement method changed29 Jun 2026, 17:22 BST
Routine re-releases (4)
- 2025-11: 1 release · 10 Nov 2025
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 (4)
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
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender