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SOFT MARKET TEST FOR CO-PRODUCTION CONTRACTS WITHIN ADULT SOCIAL CARE

Health and social work services
East of England (UKH12)
Published value
£600,000
Submission deadline Not published
Lots published1
Procurement Executive Summary
AI & Search Synopsis
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Tenderline Synopsis: Cambridgeshire County Council: "SOFT MARKET TEST FOR CO-PRODUCTION CONTRACTS WITHIN ADULT SOCIAL CARE". Published status: planning. Published value: £600,000. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Contracting AuthorityCambridgeshire County CouncilScope & CategoriesNot publishedSubmission Window
planning
No deadline published
Submission GatewayDirect notice routeLegal Basis & RegimeStandard procurementEstimated Value (exc. VAT)£600,000
Bidder Intelligence · Authority Profile: Cambridgeshire County Council
Market Analytics
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Derived from OCDS awards & bid statistics
Published history for Cambridgeshire County Council. These figures describe retained records, not a forecast of bids or a measure of buyer bias.
Published-to-award variance
Not availableInsufficient comparable data
Requires at least 5 comparable procedures
Competition Density
9.7Bids / Report
0% of reports have one bid
Supplier ConcentrationModerate Concentration
DSSL GROUP LIMITEDTop vendor: 33.6% of attributable value
Payment Terms
Check noticePublished terms
Payment obligations depend on the applicable regime and contract. Consult the official documents.
Coverage: 43 active published awards; 18 bid reports (which may be per lot). Supplier values exclude multi-supplier awards, frameworks and DPS, and use GBP only. They are published award values, not payments. Published-to-award variance compares single-lot, single-award, single-supplier GBP procedures with explicitly non-framework/non-DPS status; increases remain in the average. Unpublished data stays unknown. Awarded suppliers are winners, not all bidders.
Historical Awarded Suppliers With This Authority:
Supplier NameHistoric AwardsAttributable GBP Value
DSSL GROUP LIMITED1 win£107,728
AEGIS CERTIFICATION SERVICES LTD1 win£78,574
TRL SOFTWARE LIMITED1 win£54,584
Service AV1 win£42,735
PRICEBUY LIMITED1 win£37,215
Procedure terms
Contracting AuthorityCambridgeshire County Council
Procedure methodNot published
Procurement categoryNot published
Statusplanning
Framework / DPSNot published
CompetitionNot published
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basisNot published
Tender period startsNot published
Clarification deadlineNot published
Electronic submissionNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Published17 Apr 2026, 11:10 BST
Last source update17 Apr 2026, 11:10 BST
Recurring procurementNot published
ClassificationHealth and social work services
Delivery area
East of England (UKH12)
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-068508
What is being bought
This Soft Market Test (SMT) seeks to engage the provider market in Cambridgeshire in developing future co-production services for people who use adult social care for the following groups: • Learning Disability / Autism • Mental Health • Older People • Physical Disability • Sensory Impairment • Unpaid Carers • Drugs & alcohol Cambridgeshire County Council wants providers to help us work with people with lived experience of adult social care to ensure their voices are heard to shape services to best meet needs.
What changed
From the official release history
  1. Published value updated to £600,000
    17 Apr 2026, 11:10 BST
  2. Status changed to planning
    17 Apr 2026, 11:10 BST
  3. Official notice release published
    17 Apr 2026, 11:10 BST
  4. Buyer information updated
    17 Apr 2026, 11:10 BST
Lots and requirements (1)
Published by the contracting authority
  • Lot 1 · #1
    Individual lot title not published
    planning
    Published valueNot published
    The source published no individual title or description for this lot.
    Contract periodNot published
    EligibilityNot published
    Options / renewalNot published
Timeline
  1. Pipeline notice
    17 Apr 2026, 11:10 BST
  2. Procedure published
    17 Apr 2026, 11:10 BST
  3. engagement
    15 May 2026, 23:59 BST · scheduled
    We have provided an SMT document on ProContract for potential providers to read through. This can be found here by registering your interest and navigating to the project dashboard: https://procontract.due-north.com/Advert?advertId=5a8e5d32-3a3a-f111-813c-005056b64545 Within the SMT document there is a link to a Microsoft Forms document which we hope potential providers will complete in full. If there are any questions relating to this market engagement, please could they be submitted via the ProContract messaging function by the 8th May 2026.
Commercial outcome and competition
AwardsNo award published
ContractsNo contract published
Bid statisticsNo aggregate bid statistics published
Buyer and organisations in this procedure

Cambridgeshire County Council

Contracting authority GB-PPON-PJVB-3262-VGVJ
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Documents (1)
Official links; attachments are not copied
Related procedures (0)
No data
No related procedures published
Planning and rationale
Planning budgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Procedure rationaleNot published