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Better Care Fund 26/27

No classification published
Location not published
Official notice
Published value
£5,000,000
Submission deadline 5 Mar 2026, 18:00 GMT
Lots published1
Procurement Executive Summary
AI & Search Synopsis
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Tenderline Synopsis: Department of Health & Social Care: "Better Care Fund 26/27". Published status: complete. Published value: £5,000,000. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 5 Mar 2026, 18:00 GMT. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Contracting AuthorityDepartment of Health & Social CareScope & CategoriesNot publishedSubmission Window
Closed
5 Mar 2026, 18:00 GMT
Submission GatewayDirect notice routeLegal Basis & RegimeStandard procurementEstimated Value (exc. VAT)£5,000,000
Bidder Intelligence · Authority Profile: Department of Health & Social Care
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Derived from OCDS awards & bid statistics
Published history for Department of Health & Social Care. 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
8.6Bids / Report
0% of reports have one bid
Supplier ConcentrationHigh Concentration
Wavemaker LimitedTop vendor: 97.8% of attributable value
Payment Terms
Check noticePublished terms
Payment obligations depend on the applicable regime and contract. Consult the official documents.
Coverage: 76 active published awards; 5 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 Unpublished data stays unknown.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
Wavemaker Limited1 win£244,700,000
The Breastfeeding Network1 win£4,978,957
Severn Trent Water Limited1 win£320,841
Population Health Ltd1 win£150,495
Yorkshire Water Limited1 win£59,425
Procedure terms
Contracting AuthorityDepartment of Health & Social Care
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
Published8 Apr 2026, 16:04 BST
Last source update8 Apr 2026, 16:04 BST
Recurring procurementNot published
ClassificationNot published
Delivery areaLocation not published
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-05d72e
What is being bought
Support to a comprehensive Better Care Fund programme of Health, Housing and Social Care integration support that provides support to social care local systems. To help systems deliver person centred integrated services.
What changed
From the official release history
  1. Official notice release published
    8 Apr 2026, 16:04 BST
  2. Official notice release published
    24 Mar 2026, 12:24 GMT
  3. tender value changed
    16 Mar 2026, 09:14 GMT
  4. Status changed to complete
    16 Mar 2026, 09:14 GMT
  5. Official notice release published
    16 Mar 2026, 09:14 GMT
  6. Submission deadline changed to published date
    16 Mar 2026, 09:14 GMT
  7. Official notice release published
    5 Feb 2026, 11:27 GMT
  8. Submission deadline changed to 5 Mar 2026, 18:00 GMT
    5 Feb 2026, 11:27 GMT
  9. Official notice release published
    4 Feb 2026, 16:31 GMT
  10. Status changed to active
    4 Feb 2026, 15:22 GMT
  11. Official notice release published
    4 Feb 2026, 15:22 GMT
  12. Submission deadline changed to 4 Mar 2026, 18:00 GMT
    4 Feb 2026, 15:22 GMT
  13. Official notice release published
    30 Oct 2025, 14:54 GMT
  14. Published value updated to £5,000,000
    30 Oct 2025, 14:23 GMT
  15. Status changed to planning
    30 Oct 2025, 14:23 GMT
  16. Official notice release published
    30 Oct 2025, 14:23 GMT
  17. Buyer information updated
    30 Oct 2025, 14:23 GMT
Lots and requirements (1)
Published by the contracting authority
  • Lot 1 · #1
    Individual lot title not published
    complete
    Published valueNot published
    The source published no individual title or description for this lot.
    Contract periodNot published
    EligibilityNot published
    Options / renewalNot published
Timeline
  1. Procedure published
    8 Apr 2026, 16:04 BST
  2. Submission deadline
    5 Mar 2026, 18:00 GMT
  3. Award active
    Not published · Not published
  4. Contract active
    Signed 30 Mar 2026, 00:00 BST · £2,500,000
Commercial outcome and competition
Awards
Improvement & Development Agency For Local Government
Not published · Not published · active
Contracts
DHSC: ASC: Better Care Fund (BCF) Support Programme 2026/27
£2,500,000 · signed 30 Mar 2026, 00:00 BST · active
Contract period: 1 Apr 2026, 00:00 BST — 31 Mar 2027, 23:59 BST
Bid statisticsNo aggregate bid statistics published
Buyer and organisations in this procedure

Department of Health & Social Care

Contracting authority GB-PPON-PMQG-9965-CHZR
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  • Department of Health & Social Care
    buyer

    GB-PPON: PMQG-9965-CHZR
    39 Victoria Street, London, UKI32, SW1H 0EU, GB
    anila.kreku@dhsc.gov.uk

  • Improvement & Development Agency For Local Government
    supplier

    GB-COH: 03675577
    8 Smith Square, Westminster, London, London, UKI32, SW1P 3HZ, GB
    bidding@local.gov.uk
Documents (1)
Official links; attachments are not copied

  • Not published

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