Official UK procurement notice
The Provision of Independent Schools and Colleges for Children and Young People with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities
Authority: Leeds City Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe White Rose Partnership which comprises of 14 Placing Authorities (Local Authorities/Trusts).
These include:
- Barnsley, Bradford (and the Trust), Doncaster, East Riding, Hull, Leeds, North East Lincolnshire, North Lincolnshire, Rotherham, Sheffield, Calderdale, Kirklees, Wakefield, York.
The purpose of this section is to set out the overarching framework and expectations for the White Rose Regional Partnership ("WR Partnership") in how local authorities commission, manage, and deliver care services for children, young people, and families across Yorkshire and Humber.
This agreement is for the supply of the full range of education with or without residential care provision.
Lot 1 - Education Only Provision - Day School only
The Contractor must be able to provide full-time education with a DfE registered school on-site that meets the educational needs of individual child or young person. Education Contractors must have their own DfE number.
Lot 2 - Education with Care -- Educational with Residential Provision
For the provision of education provided by the contractor with residential care and support in a setting that is registered with Ofsted for children and young people. The Contractor must be able to provide full-time education with a DfE registered school either on-site or within their group within the weekly cost for any child/young person placed through the contract. The level of support and the education provided will meet the individual needs of a young person. Education Contractors must have their own DfE number
It is underpinned by a contractual requirement of the contractor to comply with Independent Schools Standards (England 2015), Children's Home's Regulations 2015 and the Quality Standards for Children's Homes 2015 where residential homes are provided as part of the service.
CPV: Social work and related services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewal
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Leeds City Council buys Social work and related services (CPV 8530), and who usually turns up
Leeds City 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.
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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.
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 69 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% / 22%
2–344% / 36%
4–622% / 26%
7+0% / 17%
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 estimate25% / 22%
Within ±2%63% / 70%
Above estimate13% / 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 8530Estimate not published
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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 338 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid22%
2–336%
4–626%
7+17%
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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.
| Supplier | This buyer’s earlier contract | Lot | Award value | Why listed |
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| Options Autism LtdEarlier contract | THE PROVISION OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WITH SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS AND DISABILITIESnotice published Dec 2021 | Lot 2 - Education with Care - Education with Residential Provision THE PROVISION OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WITH SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS AND DISABILITIES | — | Matched as the earlier contract |
| Aspris Children's Services LimitedEarlier contract | THE PROVISION OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WITH SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS AND DISABILITIESnotice published Dec 2021 | Lot 2 - Education with Care - Education with Residential Provision THE PROVISION OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WITH SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS AND DISABILITIES | — | Matched as the earlier contract |
| Acorn Care and Education LimitedEarlier contract | THE PROVISION OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WITH SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS AND DISABILITIESnotice published Dec 2021 | Lot 2 - Education with Care - Education with Residential Provision THE PROVISION OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WITH SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS AND DISABILITIES | — | Matched as the earlier contract |
| Bryn Melyn Care LtdEarlier contract | THE PROVISION OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WITH SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS AND DISABILITIESnotice published Dec 2021 | Lot 2 - Education with Care - Education with Residential Provision THE PROVISION OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WITH SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS AND DISABILITIES | — | Matched as the earlier contract |
| Kedleston Schools LimitedEarlier contract | THE PROVISION OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WITH SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS AND DISABILITIESnotice published Dec 2021 | Lot 2 - Education with Care - Education with Residential Provision THE PROVISION OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WITH SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS AND DISABILITIES | — | Matched as the earlier contract |
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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.
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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.
100% 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.
100% title match.
A past supplier may not bid again.
The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (100% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid
THE PROVISION OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WITH SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS AND DISABILITIES, winner not published; the published contract ends 30 Jun 2025.
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
- 8 Jun 2026, 10:43 BST
- Last source update
- 8 Jun 2026, 10:43 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-053662- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06af72Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
8 Jun 2026 → 1 Sept 2027 · 3 dates- Planning notice published137 days ago8 Jun 2026, 10:43 BST
- Market engagement22 days ago30 Sept 2026, 23:59 BST
Event 1 - 1st July 2026
The event is open to providers currently already on the SEND Framework, and to providers who may be interested in joining in the future.
Date: Wednesday 1st July 2026
Location: BHF Priory Centre, Pontefract Road, Barnsley, S71 5PN
Timings: Doors open at 9.00 for a prompt 9.30 start. Finish at 16.00
Attendance: Up to 2 delegates per organisation
The morning of the event will involve an introduction to the recommissioning timescales and the new White Rose SEND Framework principles and priorities. In the afternoon there will be group discussions around the current and future SEND Frameworks and an introduction to the wider regional recommissioning process.
Event 2 - 16th September 2026 - Details to be confirmed
- Today23 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 313 days1 Sept 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published8 Jun 2026, 10:43 BSTUK2
Commercial outcome & contract awards
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- 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