Official UK procurement notice
TD2370 - Community Short Breaks Framework
Authority: Derby City Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionProcurement of a Community Short Breaks Service for children/young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) who need additional support to take part in activities and build independence skills.
Community Short Breaks are part of a range of services, providing activities for children/young people with SEND, facilitating breaks (respite) from caring for families/parents/carers of disabled children.
The Community Short Breaks will offer the following:
- A Grant, or
- A targeted Provider Service
This procurement relates to the targeted Provider Service.
Amount - £250,000 per annum.
CPV: Health and social work services
How this framework works
From the published notice- Framework period
- 2 yrs · up to 4 yrs from 1 Apr 2027
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewal
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
- “TD2370 - Community Short Breaks Framework” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Derby City Council buys Health and social work services (CPV 85), and who usually turns up
Derby City Council’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. This notice is a framework or DPS, so only frameworks and DPS are compared. Whole-market view: Health and social work services (CPV 85) →
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.
Here, local means registered in East Midlands.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in East Midlands. More of this buyer’s work stays local than in this market: 73% against 38%, n=45.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards were announced within 42 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.
The market share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
Awards are recorded, but published direct routes and bid counts do not establish this buyer’s share.
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 bid0% / 1%
2–30% / 11%
4–60% / 24%
7+100% / 64%
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.
On a framework or DPS, prices are agreed when work is called off.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Not comparable on a framework or DPS. The notice sets up a supplier panel and a ceiling value; what the work actually costs is agreed later, on each call-off or mini-competition, and those publish as contract notices of their own. The award-vs-estimate record of this market therefore sits on the call-offs; this page shows it on the contracts, not on the panel that frames them.
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
Our matching links this notice to “Home Based or Community Short Breaks Framework” of this authority, but none of the 4 panel members sit in a category matching this notice.
Lot #1Published estimate£1.0m
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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 101 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid1%
2–311%
4–624%
7+64%
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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.
What this replaces i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
62% title match.
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.
62% title match.
A past supplier may not bid again.
The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (62% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid
Home Based or Community Short Breaks Framework — held by Community Links Support Limited and The Endorphins Group (+1 more); no contract end date published.
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
- Framework agreement
- Who may use this agreement
- Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 21 May 2026, 15:34 BST
- Last source update
- 21 May 2026, 15:34 BST
- Authority reference
TD2370- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-047261- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-069f9eFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Appointment period ends
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Timeline
21 May 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 4 dates- Planning notice published154 days ago21 May 2026, 15:34 BST
- Market engagement64 days ago19 Aug 2026, 23:59 BST
Derby City Council is looking to procure a Community Short Breaks Framework. This is a targeted* service whereby providers arrange and deliver activities and provide additional support to children and young people with SEND. Short Breaks also give parents and carers respite from their caring duties.
Community Short Breaks are for children and young people who:
- may not be able to join in with universal† activities without support, or
- may have complex needs that cannot be met by universal services or family support alone
*Targeted services are for children and young people who may need additional support and may require an assessment of need to access services.
†Universal services are services that are available to all children, young people and their families.
For information regarding Derby City Council's Community Short Breaks Service please access the link below:
www.derby.gov.uk/education-and-learni… ↗
Derby City Council is undertaking a consultation to review our current Community Short Breaks Service. We are seeking feedback, ideas and suggestions for improvements and innovation going forward.
This consultation also includes ideas for potential proposals for change which we would also value your feedback on.
We are keen to engage with existing Community Short Break providers and providers who may be interested in delivering Short Breaks in the future.
Formal consultation commences on Thursday 21st May 2026 and will close at midnight on Wednesday 19th August 2026.
You can take part in the consultation by:
- Requesting a provider survey by emailing [email protected] completing this and returning it to [email protected] by midnight on Wednesday 19th August 2026.
Market engagement events will be planned and delivered leading up to the start of the re-procurement. Please register your interest in these by emailing [email protected] .
THIS IS NOT A FORMAL INVITATION TO TENDER NOTICE - A PROCUREMENT EXERCISE WILL FOLLOW AT A LATER STAGE IN 2026.
THIS NOTICE ALSO SERVES TO ALERT THE MARKET TO PRELIMINARY MARKET ENGAGEMENT EVENTS TO BE HELD IN THE COMING WEEKS.
- Tender notice expected24 days ago28 Sept 2026, 23:59 BST
- Today22 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 160 days1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published21 May 2026, 15:34 BSTUK2
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