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Temporary Accommodation at Avon Way House, Colchester

Accommodation management services
Accommodation services
Letting services of short-stay furnished accommodation
+1 more
East of England (UKH3)
Published value
Not published
Submission deadline Not published
Lots published1
Procurement Executive Summary
AI & Search Synopsis
Generated from official OCDS record
Tenderline Synopsis: Colchester City Council: "Temporary Accommodation at Avon Way House, Colchester". Published status: complete. Published value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Contracting AuthorityColchester City CouncilScope & CategoriesNot publishedSubmission Window
complete
No deadline published
Submission GatewayDirect notice routeLegal Basis & RegimeStandard procurementEstimated Value (exc. VAT)Not published
Bidder Intelligence · Authority Profile: Colchester City Council
Market Analytics
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Derived from OCDS awards & bid statistics
Published history for Colchester City 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
5.3Bids / Report
5.6% of reports have one bid
Supplier ConcentrationNo estimate
Insufficient attributable awardsNo concentration estimate available
Payment Terms
Check noticePublished terms
Payment obligations depend on the applicable regime and contract. Consult the official documents.
Coverage: 19 active published awards; 18 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 Unpublished data stays unknown.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.
Procedure terms
Contracting AuthorityColchester City Council
Procedure methodNot published
Procurement categoryNot published
Statuscomplete
Framework / DPSNot published
CompetitionNot published
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basisNot published
Tender period startsNot published
Clarification deadlineNot published
Electronic submissionNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Published20 Nov 2024, 12:05 GMT
Last source update20 Nov 2024, 12:05 GMT
Recurring procurementNot published
ClassificationAccommodation management services, Accommodation services, Letting services of short-stay furnished accommodation, Social work services without accommodation
Delivery area
East of England (UKH3)
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-04bd3a
What is being bought
Colchester City Council (the ‘Council’) has a need to provide flexible accommodation to meet the needs of homeless households which include families with children and single people with complex needs, in a location and with facilities that are suitable. There is an extraordinarily high demand for affordable accommodation. As a consequence, there are no reasonable alternative or substitute suppliers in the borough of Colchester which can meet the City Council’s technical requirements for those in temporary accommodation need in the necessary timeframe.
What changed
From the official release history
  1. Status changed to complete
    20 Nov 2024, 12:05 GMT
  2. Official notice release published
    20 Nov 2024, 12:05 GMT
  3. Buyer information updated
    20 Nov 2024, 12:05 GMT
Lots and requirements (1)
Published by the contracting authority
  • Lot 1 · #1
    Individual lot title not published
    cancelled
    Published valueNot published
    Colchester City Council has a requirement to provide flexible accommodation to meet the needs of homeless households which include families with children and single people with complex needs, in a location and with facilities that are suitable. Colchester City Council has entered into a licence with Beyond the Box Student Limited (the ‘Supplier’) for the provision of temporary accommodation to fulfil this requirement. There is an extraordinarily high demand for temporary accommodation where many individuals were facing health and well-being difficulties whilst placed in B&B accommodation. Suitable temporary accommodation for homeless individuals in the borough of Colchester is recognised as a priority by the City Council and its partner organisations in addressing homelessness need. The City Council has engaged with partner public sector organisations including Essex County Council, Essex Police, Anglia Ruskin University and Colchester Hospital and the wider market for proposals to meet suitability requirements at a scale which would be able to deliver temporary accommodation units in an urgent timeframe to address the temporary accommodation for homeless individual need. In considering suitability of accommodation available, the City Council has had regard to the Homelessness Code of Guidance for Local Authorities (the ‘Code’) in the exercise of its functions, in particular the suitability of the accommodation in accordance with Chapter 17 of the Code and taking into account availability of bathroom and kitchen facilities as well as the social considerations relating to the individual and their household. Following the market engagement by the City Council, the Supplier was the only provider identified which was able to offer flexible temporary accommodation of up to 225 units with suitable facilities for homeless individuals in the required urgent timeframe and to a specification in accordance with the Code in a location that could be readily managed and supported by the City Council. There are no reasonable alternative suppliers in the borough of Colchester which can meet the City Council’s technical requirements for those in temporary accommodation need in the necessary timeframe. The absence of competition is not the result of an artificial narrowing down of the parameters of the procurement. Accordingly, after due consideration, Colchester City Council has decided to make a direct award pursuant to Regulation 32(2)(b)(ii) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 to the Supplier on the grounds that competition is absent for technical reasons.
    Contract periodNot published
    EligibilityNot published
    Options / renewalNot published
Timeline
  1. Procedure published
    20 Nov 2024, 12:05 GMT
  2. Award active
    Not published · Not published
  3. Contract active
    Signed 18 Oct 2024, 00:00 BST · £15,907,244
Commercial outcome and competition
Awards
Beyond the Box Student Limited
Not published · Not published · active
Contracts
Temporary Accommodation at Avon Way House, Colchester
£15,907,244 · signed 18 Oct 2024, 00:00 BST · active
Bid statistics
bids: 1 (lot 1)
smeBids: 1 (lot 1)
Buyer and organisations in this procedure

Colchester City Council

Contracting authority GB-FTS-74782
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  • Colchester City Council
    buyer

    Rowan House, 33 Sheepen Road, Colchester, UKH3, CO3 3WG
    matthew.howe@colchester.gov.uk
    +44 7976794358

  • Beyond the Box Student Limited
    supplier

    10894447
    Fitzroy House, Crown Street, Ipswich, UK, IP1 3LG

  • High Court
    reviewBody

    London
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Planning and rationale
Planning budgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Procedure rationaleThere is an extraordinarily high demand for temporary accommodation where many individuals were facing health and well-being difficulties whilst placed in B&B accommodation. Suitable temporary accommodation for homeless individuals in the borough of Colchester is recognised as a priority by the City Council and its partner organisations in addressing homelessness need. The City Council has engaged with partner public sector organisations including Essex County Council, Essex Police, Anglia Ruskin University and Colchester Hospital and the wider market for proposals to meet suitability requirements at a scale which would be able to deliver temporary accommodation units in an urgent timeframe to address the temporary accommodation for homeless individual need. In considering suitability of accommodation available, the City Council has had regard to the Homelessness Code of Guidance for Local Authorities (the ‘Code’) in the exercise of its functions, in particular the suitability of the accommodation in accordance with Chapter 17 of the Code and taking into account availability of bathroom and kitchen facilities as well as the social considerations relating to the individual and their household. Following the market engagement by the City Council, the Supplier was the only provider identified which was able to offer flexible temporary accommodation of up to 225 units with suitable facilities for homeless individuals in the required urgent timeframe and to a specification in accordance with the Code in a location that could be readily managed and supported by the City Council. There are no reasonable alternative suppliers in the borough of Colchester which can meet the City Council’s technical requirements for those in temporary accommodation need in the necessary timeframe. The absence of competition is not the result of an artificial narrowing down of the parameters of the procurement. Accordingly, after due consideration, Colchester City Council has decided to make a direct award pursuant to Regulation 32(2)(b)(ii) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 to the Supplier on the grounds that competition is absent for technical reasons.