Official UK procurement notice
Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children (UASC) Support Services
Authority: Home Office (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Support Services for UASC ensure that their immediate needs are met upon arrival in Kent, or elsewhere, prior to entering the care of a local authority. Additionally, there is a need to ensure UASC have access to information and support to help them navigate the asylum process.
The services will operate alongside, and in collaboration with the Authority and a range of other services and Authority suppliers to enable the effective operation of the system to manage and support UASC.
It is recognised that service users may require only one, or a combination of these services at any given time. Therefore, all services areas must be available but would be delivered on an as-required basis, according to the needs of each individual case.
The core service areas are:
Service Area 1: Deliver Services at Kent Intake Unit (KIU)
Service Area 2: Delivery of Future Orientation Sessions
The content of this Notice, including the estimated contract value and indicative contract timelines, is subject to change.
CPV: Administrative social services · Social work services · Social work services without accommodation · Welfare services for children and young people · Welfare services not delivered through residential institutions
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewalPublished value£4,500,000
- Economic & financial standing
The Authority will require Bidders to demonstrate their economic and financial standing as part of qualification criteria .
- Technical & professional ability
Exact qualifications and standards for any personnel delivering the contract will be outlined in Schedule 2 Specification which interested suppliers willl have access to following signing of a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA).
Further qualifications and standards at an organisational levle will be set out in qualification questions as part of the tender.
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).
- Economic & financial standing
The Authority will require Bidders to demonstrate their economic and financial standing as part of qualification criteria .
- Technical & professional ability
Exact qualifications and standards for any personnel delivering the contract will be outlined in Schedule 2 Specification which interested suppliers willl have access to following signing of a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA).
Further qualifications and standards at an organisational levle will be set out in qualification questions as part of the tender.
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Home Office buys Social work services (CPV 8531), and who usually turns up
Home Office’s own published record, next to the published 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
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.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in the delivery region.
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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 227 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 buyer’s share is a minimum: 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 bid11%
2–337%
4–641%
7+11%
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 estimate44%
Within ±2%38%
Above estimate19%
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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.
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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 8531Published estimate£4.5m
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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 474 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid27%
2–335%
4–622%
7+16%
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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.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- 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
- 31 Mar 2026, 09:16 BST
- Last source update
- 31 Mar 2026, 09:16 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 30 Sept 2026
- Authority reference
Project 19042- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-029410- Latest notice
- Planned procurement notice (UK3)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-067887Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 19 Jun 2026, 23:59 BST
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Jaggaer e-sourcing portal
Timeline
31 Mar 2026 → 1 Jan 2027 · 5 dates- Planning notice published205 days ago31 Mar 2026, 09:16 BST
- Tender notice expected157 days ago18 May 2026, 23:59 BST
- Submission deadline125 days ago19 Jun 2026, 23:59 BST
- Award decision expected by22 days ago30 Sept 2026, 23:59 BST
- Today22 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 70 days1 Jan 2027
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Planned procurement notice published31 Mar 2026, 09:16 BSTUK3
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
- Planned procurement notice Planned procurement notice on Find a Tender