Official UK procurement notice
The Kirkby Family Wellbeing Pilot Ref: K PiP-FWP
Authority: Ashfield District Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionNottinghamshire County Council on behalf of Ashfield District Council (ADC) (The Council) is seeking tenders from suitably qualified and experienced organisations to deliver the school-based Kirkby Family Wellbeing Pilot on behalf of the Kirkby Neighbourhood Board.
The project forms part of the Kirkby Pride in Place Programme and contributes to the Education, Opportunity, Work, Productivity and Skills theme.
The pilot is intended to provide practical, trusted and early support for families experiencing financial pressure, low confidence, social isolation or wider wellbeing challenges. It seeks to test whether a school-based support model can improve engagement with residents who may not access traditional support services. The project is intended to complement existing provisions rather than duplicate it.
ADC requires a Single Supplier to lead on this work, please refer to specification for further information.
This procurement has been restricted to providers that have an office within the Nottinghamshire area and conduct their services within this area.
Contract Period: 1 January 2027 to 31 July 2028 (19 months) initial contract pilot period.
Although the total value of the contract including any possible extension is £173,000 excluding VAT, the total available budget for the initial contract pilot period of 19 months is £140,000 and is inclusive of all costs, excluding VAT. This is a ceiling budget and bids MUST NOT exceed the amount of £140,000, excluding VAT.
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There is an option for a possible extension of up to 6 months dependent on satisfactory performance, funding availability and approval.
CPV: Adult and other education services · Guidance services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1Lot 1RenewalPublished value£173,000
- Value
- £173,000 exc. VAT · £207,600 inc. VAT
- Extensions
- There is an option for a possible extension of up to 6 months dependent on satisfactory performance, funding availability and approval.
What it takes to win
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published — the tender pack may add morePass/Fail Question - This procurement has been restricted to providers that have an office within the Area of Nottinghamshire and conduct their services within this area. Quality - 60% Social Value Quantitative - 5% Social Value Qualitative - 5% Price - 30%
- Condition of participationThis procurement has been restricted to providers that have an office within the area of Nottinghamshire and conduct their services within this area.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How Ashfield District Council buys Social work services (CPV 8531) — and who usually turns up
Ashfield District Council’s own published record, next to the East Midlands market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Social work services (CPV 8531) →
How the contest usually goes
Left: this authority. Right: the market where the work is delivered. Bids and award-vs-estimate pairs are per lot, from contested contracts only — direct awards (including PA 2023 transparency notices) report one bid by definition and are left out. On Procurement Act 2023 notices the count is the tenders assessed at the final stage, not every submission received; pairs compare like with like (VAT-exclusive, or VAT-inclusive on both sides). Empty means nothing was published, not filled in from elsewhere.
Ashfield District Council
contract notices in 36 months: 1 in CPV 8531 · 1 in division 85 · 24 in all categories
East Midlands · Social work services (CPV 8531)
contract notices delivered in East Midlands in 36 months: 113 in CPV 8531 (93 contested) · 1,753 in division 85 (776 contested)
moderate · n=3 Awards in Ashfield District Council (all categories, n=3 pairs) land a median at estimate. Too few pairs to turn into a pound figure with any confidence — read the percentage as a rough direction, not this notice’s estimate converted.
Method and what to read with care
- Two columns, no blending. The authority column walks its own record only: notices in the 4-digit class, then the 2-digit division, then all categories (36 months, per lot, contested only), and as a last resort its 24-month row across all categories (per lot, contested contract notices). The market column is the notice’s primary delivery ITL1 × the same class, then division (36 months). Nothing is filled from the UK-wide class; an empty tile means the source published nothing usable.
- Per lot, contested only. Find a Tender publishes bid counts per lot; a seven-lot tender is seven contests. Procedures awarded without competition (limited / direct) are excluded from bids, price pairs and decision days — they report one bid by definition. Frameworks and DPS are a separate population from contracts (6–7 bids per lot against 2–4) and only the notice’s own kind is shown.
- Coverage. Roughly 40 % of notices publish a bid count; about half publish an ITL1 delivery location, so the market column reads the authority’s registered region when the notice has none (labelled). Award-vs-estimate pairs need a lot estimate, one active award on the lot, one canonical supplier and a gap under 60 %; about 30 % of pairs are exact matches (the buyer published the award at the estimate). n is on every figure; below 3 the tile is muted, never hidden.
- Pounds. The expected award applies the authority’s median movement (or the region’s, when the authority has fewer than 3 pairs) to this notice’s estimate; the middle half uses the region’s quartiles. A multi-lot notice publishes an envelope, so the movement is applied per lot, never to the total. A benchmark, not a recommended price.
- “Match” and “relevance” are model scores from the nightly matcher, not published facts. Find a Tender does not publish who is bidding. Never shown: contact details, payment behaviour, or a recommended price.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Below threshold - open competition
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Open for tender
- Procurement threshold
- Below threshold
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 21 Sept 2026, 17:47 BST
- Last source update
- 21 Sept 2026, 17:47 BST
- Authority reference
DN829670- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0776eaFind a Tender
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Submit via ProContract (Due North)- Expression of interest (EOI)
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- Tender submission deadline
- 20 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
- Clarification deadline
- 6 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
Timeline
4 published dates · Europe/London- Tender notice publishedearlier today21 Sept 2026, 17:47 BST
- Clarification questions byin 15 days6 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
- Submission deadlinein 29 days20 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
- Contract startsin 101 days1 Jan 2027, 00:00 GMT
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Nothing awarded yet- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published21 Sept 2026, 17:47 BSTUK4
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender