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Stray Dogs Collection and Kennelling Contract - Soft Market Testing

Dog kennel services
Location not published
Published value
Not published
Submission deadline Not published
Lots published1
Procurement Executive Summary
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Tenderline Synopsis: Slough Borough Council: "Stray Dogs Collection and Kennelling Contract - Soft Market Testing ". Published status: planning. Published value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Contracting AuthoritySlough Borough CouncilScope & CategoriesNot publishedSubmission Window
planning
No deadline published
Submission GatewayDirect notice routeLegal Basis & RegimeStandard procurementEstimated Value (exc. VAT)Not published
Bidder Intelligence · Authority Profile: Slough Borough Council
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Derived from OCDS awards & bid statistics
Published history for Slough Borough 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
6.3Bids / Report
25% of reports have one bid
Supplier ConcentrationHigh Concentration
Look Ahead Care and Support LimitedTop vendor: 50.6% of attributable value
Payment Terms
Check noticePublished terms
Payment obligations depend on the applicable regime and contract. Consult the official documents.
Coverage: 14 active published awards; 8 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 Unpublished data stays unknown.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
Look Ahead Care and Support Limited3 wins£2,519,822
Falcon Surfacing Limited1 win£1,920,000
YMCA St Paul's Group1 win£399,600
KOMPAN Limited1 win£141,654
Procedure terms
Contracting AuthoritySlough Borough 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
Published6 Oct 2025, 12:09 BST
Last source update6 Oct 2025, 12:09 BST
Recurring procurementNot published
ClassificationDog kennel services
Delivery areaLocation not published
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-05a62e
What is being bought
The soft market testing exercise aims to identify the potential to increase the number and type of organisations who would be interested in tendering for the Stray Dogs Collection and Kennelling Contract. The Council would like to understand from key providers how these requirements might best be structured and is therefore carrying out a soft market testing exercise to engage in an informal dialogue prior to any formal procurement taking place
What changed
From the official release history
  1. Official notice release published
    6 Oct 2025, 12:09 BST
  2. Status changed to planning
    1 Oct 2025, 16:15 BST
  3. Official notice release published
    1 Oct 2025, 16:15 BST
  4. Buyer information updated
    1 Oct 2025, 16:15 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
    6 Oct 2025, 12:09 BST
  2. Procedure published
    6 Oct 2025, 12:09 BST
  3. engagement
    15 Oct 2025, 23:59 BST · scheduled
    The soft market testing exercise aims to identify the potential to increase the number and type of organisations who would be interested in tendering for the Stray Dogs Collection and Kennelling Contract. The Council would like to understand from key providers how these requirements might best be structured and is therefore carrying out a soft market testing exercise to engage in an informal dialogue prior to any formal procurement taking place. Please visit http://www.sesharedservices.org.uk/esourcing and use reference SBC – 038689 to find the project.
Commercial outcome and competition
AwardsNo award published
ContractsNo contract published
Bid statisticsNo aggregate bid statistics published
Buyer and organisations in this procedure

Slough Borough Council

Contracting authority GB-PPON-PMLW-2634-YYNX
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  • Slough Borough Council
    buyer

    GB-PPON: PMLW-2634-YYNX
    Observatory House, 25 Windsor Road, Slough, UKJ11, SL1 2EL, GB
    SBCProcurement@slough.gov.uk
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