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Soft Market Testing Exercise- Short-term Emergency Placements

Welfare services for children and young people
North West (UKD74)
Published value
Not published
Submission deadline Not published
Lots published1
Procurement Executive Summary
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Tenderline Synopsis: Wirral Council: "Soft Market Testing Exercise- Short-term Emergency Placements". Published status: planning. Published value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Contracting AuthorityWirral CouncilScope & CategoriesNot publishedSubmission Window
planning
No deadline published
Submission GatewayDirect notice routeLegal Basis & RegimeStandard procurementEstimated Value (exc. VAT)Not published
Bidder Intelligence · Authority Profile: Wirral Council
Market Analytics
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Derived from OCDS awards & bid statistics
Published history for Wirral Council. These figures describe retained records, not a forecast of bids or a measure of buyer bias.
Average Price Reduction
Not availableInsufficient comparable data
Requires at least 5 comparable procedures
Competition Density
3Bids / Report
31.3% of reports have one bid
Supplier ConcentrationHigh Concentration
WIRRAL COMMUNITY HEALTH AND CARE NHS FOUNDATION TRUSTTop vendor: 80.8% of attributable value
Payment Terms
Check noticePublished terms
Payment obligations depend on the applicable regime and contract. Consult the official documents.
Coverage: 98 active published awards; 16 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. Price reduction 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 Unpublished data stays unknown.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
WIRRAL COMMUNITY HEALTH AND CARE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST1 win£36,975,339
KAARBON TECHNOLOGY LTD1 win£6,000,000
CORSTORPHINE + WRIGHT LIMITED1 win£725,625
TURNER & TOWNSEND PROJECT MANAGEMENT LIMITED3 wins£552,757
Reed Specialist Recruitment Limited1 win£498,750
Procedure terms
Contracting AuthorityWirral 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
Published26 Aug 2026, 14:44 BST
Last source update26 Aug 2026, 14:44 BST
Recurring procurementNot published
ClassificationWelfare services for children and young people
Delivery area
North West (UKD74)
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-06ecc8
What is being bought
Wirral Council is undertaking a soft market testing and engagement exercise to explore viable options for the provision of short-term, emergency accommodation for APOC children and young people presenting in crisis, particularly where they would otherwise remain in hospital or other inappropriate settings.
What changed
From the official release history
  1. Status changed to planning
    26 Aug 2026, 14:44 BST
  2. Official notice release published
    26 Aug 2026, 14:44 BST
  3. Buyer information updated
    26 Aug 2026, 14:44 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
    26 Aug 2026, 14:44 BST
  2. Procedure published
    26 Aug 2026, 14:44 BST
  3. engagement
    23 Sept 2026, 23:59 BST · scheduled
    Soft Market Testing document to be completed by interested providers and uploaded via the Chest portal before 12 Noon on Wednesday 23rd September 2026. Soft Market Testing Exercise- Short-term Emergency Placements DN827438 https://procontract.due-north.com/register If you experience any technical difficulties registering or using The Chest, please contact support: Email: procontractsuppliers@proactis.com Telephone: 0330 005 0352
Commercial outcome and competition
AwardsNo award published
ContractsNo contract published
Bid statisticsNo aggregate bid statistics published
Buyer and organisations in this procedure

Wirral Council

Contracting authority GB-PPON-PBCP-8675-BHWT
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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