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# Understanding and Managing Waits Timescales for DoLS

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/understanding-and-managing-waits-timescales-for-dols-ocds-h6vhtk-05a9d6). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Local Government Association: "Understanding and Managing Waits Timescales for DoLS". Published status: complete. Published Value: £30,000. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 3 Nov 2025, 16:00 GMT. Published submission portal: www.delta-esourcing.com.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [Local Government Association](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/local-government-association-coh-11177145)
- **Published Value:** £30,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** 3 November 2025 at 16:00 GMT
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Below threshold - open competition
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Health and social work services
- **Delivery Location:** UK
- **Legal Basis:** UKPGA 2023/54
- **Official Documents:** 2 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/understanding-and-managing-waits-timescales-for-dols-ocds-h6vhtk-05a9d6#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-05a9d6`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/understanding-and-managing-waits-timescales-for-dols-ocds-h6vhtk-05a9d6#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [delta-esourcing.com](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.delta-esourcing.com%2Fdelta)
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/understanding-and-managing-waits-timescales-for-dols-ocds-h6vhtk-05a9d6#participate

## Description
Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) have been flagged as a concern for some councils from CQC assessment. 
Alongside assessment and support waiting times, DoLS waiting times are a focus of the CQC assurance process and provides indicators in relation to the quality of experience of people requiring care and support from a council and those with more complex needs.  
The nationally published DoLS annual data collection evidence where waiting lists are longest, and where councils have the highest number of people waiting for over a year.
This piece of work will offer expert support to councils who would like to further develop their DoLS processes and improve timescales.
For more information about this opportunity, please visit the Delta eSourcing portal at: 
https://www.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-UK-UK-London:-Health-and-social-work-services.:-Health-and-social-work-services./8CP25X43DA
To respond to this opportunity, please click here: 
https://www.delta-esourcing.com/respond/8CP25X43DA

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 85000000
- **Delivery regions:** UK
- **Delivery countries in notice:** GB
- **Estimated Value:** £30,000

- **Contract Period:** 06/11/2025 to 06/03/2026
- **Renewal published:** yes

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (1)
- **Award:** 1 (cancelled)

  - Supplier(s): **Not published**

  - Date: 06/11/2025

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F062994-2025)
- **Last Source Update:** 2025-11-06T16:05:36.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-28T21:24:06.106Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-05a9d6