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Staffing For Unregistered Places

Education and training services
Other community
social and personal services
South West (UKK3)
Published value
£6,000,000
Submission deadline Not published
Lots published1
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Tenderline Synopsis: Cornwall Council: "Staffing For Unregistered Places". Published status: planning. Published value: £6,000,000. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Contracting AuthorityCornwall CouncilScope & CategoriesNot publishedSubmission Window
planning
No deadline published
Submission GatewayDirect notice routeLegal Basis & RegimeStandard procurementEstimated Value (exc. VAT)£6,000,000
Bidder Intelligence · Authority Profile: Cornwall Council
Market Analytics
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Derived from OCDS awards & bid statistics
Published history for Cornwall 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
5.3Bids / Report
18.2% of reports have one bid
Supplier ConcentrationHigh Concentration
StayathomeTop vendor: 94.5% of attributable value
Payment Terms
Check noticePublished terms
Payment obligations depend on the applicable regime and contract. Consult the official documents.
Coverage: 74 active published awards; 11 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 Unpublished data stays unknown.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
Stayathome1 win£57,000,000
BELL GROUP LTD1 win£2,600,000
Dash Logistic Services Ltd1 win£330,000
Urban Biodiversity CIC1 win£125,000
Savills (UK) Ltd1 win£80,000
Procedure terms
Contracting AuthorityCornwall 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 Jun 2025, 16:02 BST
Last source update17 Jun 2025, 16:02 BST
Recurring procurementNot published
ClassificationEducation and training services, Other community, social and personal services
Delivery area
South West (UKK3)
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-052c56
What is being bought
Cornwall Council has statutory responsibilities to provide children in Care with somewhere appropriate to live, whether this is on a voluntary basis or via a court order as per The Children Act 1989. This includes ensuring sufficiency to meet the individual needs of children through a range of residential placements. The aim for residential placements is to narrow the gap between the general outcomes for children and the outcomes for Children in Care. These responsibilities are fulfilled through individual tailored placements both in house and with a wide range of providers within and outside of Cornwall. An "unregistered" placement refers to a setting that meets the legal definition of a children's home under the Care Standards Act 2000 but has not been registered with Ofsted. Unregistered placements for children typically arise due to a shortage of suitable, regulated care options for vulnerable children, especially those with complex needs. There is a diminishing number of registered children's homes willing or able to accommodate children with high or complex needs. This includes children with behavioural challenges, mental health issues, or those requiring secure accommodation. Local authorities may need to resort to unregistered placements in emergency situations, such as: • Sudden placement breakdowns • Family crises • Immediate safeguarding concerns In these cases, there may be no time to secure a registered placement, and authorities prioritise the child's immediate safety . Some children are placed under Deprivation of Liberty (DoL) orders, meaning they require constant supervision or restrictions for their safety. There are very few regulated settings equipped to handle such cases, leading to the use of unregistered homes. Whilst Cornwall Council operates a Dynamic Purchase System (DPS) for children and young people placements (Fostering, Residential and SEND) we do not currently have a DPS for staffing unregistered placements. Therefore, every placement is currently via spot placement and Cornwall Council are looking to potentially,formally tender this opportunity.
What changed
From the official release history
  1. Official notice release published
    17 Jun 2025, 16:02 BST
  2. tender value changed
    4 Jun 2025, 12:39 BST
  3. Status changed to planning
    4 Jun 2025, 12:39 BST
  4. Official notice release published
    4 Jun 2025, 12:39 BST
  5. Buyer information updated
    4 Jun 2025, 12:39 BST
  6. Published tender amendment
    Not published
    Market engagement cancelled.
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 Jun 2025, 16:02 BST
  2. Procedure published
    17 Jun 2025, 16:02 BST
  3. engagement
    Not published · met
    Cornwall Council is conducting a soft market assessment to gain an understanding of the potential level of interest across the Voluntary, NHS, Independent and Private Sector for the provision of Parent and Child Residential Assessments across Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. It is intended that the responses supplied will enable the Council to develop a business proposal prior to re-commissioning local services. Any such proposal would be subject to the development and approval of a business case, and, as such, this exercise implies no commercial commitment. This is not a formal tender document and all costings submitted are deemed hypothetical but will support us in identifying the best option for Cornwall. The Soft Market Test is a questionnaire requesting potential Suppliers ideas to help support and create the specification and business plan to take the project forward. The questionnaire will be open on the Supplying The South West portal until 12 noon on Wednesday 25th June.
Commercial outcome and competition
AwardsNo award published
ContractsNo contract published
Bid statisticsNo aggregate bid statistics published
Buyer and organisations in this procedure

Cornwall Council

Contracting authority GB-PPON-PYRH-9827-DWLP
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Documents (1)
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Related procedures (0)
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Planning and rationale
Planning budgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Procedure rationaleNot published