Official UK procurement notice
Supported Housing for Young People with Care Experience
Authority: Denbighshire County Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThis will be a housing related supported housing project for care experienced young people aged 16 to 18, of either gender, with no dependent children. It is a high intensity supported housing project, consisting of 5 units of supported accommodation which will be staffed 24 hours a day, with post move on floating housing related support for up to 6 months.
The Young People’s Supported Housing Project will provide holistic, trauma-informed support to young people with care experience that are also experiencing homelessness, housing instability, or complex needs. The service will offer short and medium-term supported accommodation, empowering young people to build the skills, resilience, and confidence they need for sustainable independent living.
Young people’s needs will be such that they require support at a staff to client ratio of 1:2.5, and will require the presence of sleep-in staff overnight, with the flexibility to increase staff ratios dependant on need which may include waking night staff.
The contract value is estimated at £300,000 per annum at this time, confirmed contract dimensions will be provided in the tender specification.
Details of a meet the buyer event for this contract are provided in the engagement section of this notice.
CPV: Health and social work services · Housing services · Other community, social and personal services · Social work and related services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Denbighshire County Council buys Social work and related services (CPV 8530), and who usually turns up
Denbighshire County Council’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: Social work and related services (CPV 8530) →
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 Wales (Cymru).
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 32 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 bid33% / 24%
2–311% / 44%
4–644% / 24%
7+11% / 7%
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 estimate75% / 27%
Within ±2%25% / 67%
Above estimate0% / 7%
Assess each lot i
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 7033Published estimate£1.5m
This lot is listed as CPV 7033. The table above uses the notice category.
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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 14 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid0%
2–357%
4–636%
7+7%
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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.
No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
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.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- 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
- 13 Jan 2026, 10:28 GMT
- Last source update
- 13 Jan 2026, 10:28 GMT
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-002526- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-060454Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
13 Jan 2026 → 1 Aug 2026 · 4 dates- Planning notice published285 days ago13 Jan 2026, 10:28 GMT
- Market engagement267 days ago30 Jan 2026, 23:59 GMT
A meet the buyer event for this contract will taking place via Microsoft Teams at 2pm on 30/01/26 to give potential providers opportunity to learn more about the expectations of the contract and answer any queries. To book your attendance at this event please email Hayley Jones at [email protected] and a meeting invite link will be sent out nearer to the time to your requested email address.
Separate engagement has taken place with young people who are currently living in similar supported housing projects, staff from the current providers and other stakeholders. Consultation was offered via questionnaire.
- Tender notice expected236 days ago2 Mar 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract starts85 days ago1 Aug 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published13 Jan 2026, 10:28 GMTUK2
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 (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender