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Young People Supported Accommodation

Buyer: Milton Keynes City Council →

BuyerMilton Keynes City Council
Statusplanned
DeadlineNot published
Value£38,160,000
Published3 Dec 2025

What is being bought

Milton Keynes City Council has a statutory duty to ensure that there is sufficient, good quality and safe provision for the young people in its care in accordance with Section 22G of the Children Act 1989. The Supported Accommodation (England) Regulations 2023 provides a legal framework for everyone providing supported accommodation for looked after children and care leavers aged 16 and 17 for whom the local authority has a duty to accommodate or arrange accommodation. The Regulations include the Quality Standards which set out the outcomes that supported accommodation providers are expected to achieve, as well as the underpinning requirements that providers must meet to achieve them for supported accommodation for young people. The scope of the services will provide support and accommodation to the following – • 16/17 Yearr old Children in Care and Separated Migrant children (Shared and solo provisions with onsite staffing 24/7) • 18+ Transitioning to adulthood/Care leavers (Shared provision with floating support) This market engagement exercise aims to gather insights and best practice to design and enhance the delivery of young peoples supported accommodation in Milton Keynes to ensure services meet need, are effectively delivered and achieve personalised outcomes for young people. Please find details of the market engagement session below: Date: 06/01/2026 Time: 10:00am to 11:30am Location: Online via Microsoft Teams We are also keen to hear from providers on the questions given in the market engagement document. The responses to the questions will help the Council in developing the specification and the tender. Please respond to the questions within the document and confirm your attendance by latest 5pm on 29th December 2025 via In-Tend Correspondence section/market engagement stage. The Market Engagement document can be accessed on our e-tendering portal: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/milton-keynes/aspx/Home

Categories

Health and social work services 85000000Social work and related services 85300000Social work services 85310000Social work services with accommodation 85311000

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statusplanned
Contract periodFrom 1 Dec 2026 to 30 Nov 2030
SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Health and social work services, Social work and related services, Social work services, Social work services with accommodationNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 85. The category anchor is Health and social work services (85000000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison setProceduresReported bids per procedureNamed award suppliersPrice evidence
Market: CPV division 8520,8221 median · 29 average (10,308 of 20,822 with a bid count)2 average (11,356 of 20,822 with named award suppliers)10 comparable price pairs
Same buyer8Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)3523 median · 15.9 average (7 of 352 with a bid count)3.1 average (7 of 352 with named award suppliers)Not published

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Indicative price outcome

£24,826,878 is the median lowest-valid-bid benchmark for the broad CPV market sample, against this procedure’s published value of £38,160,000.

This is a historical comparator, not a bid-price forecast or a guaranteed saving. It excludes records where the published values cannot be sensibly compared and does not adjust for lot structure, quality weighting, framework terms or scope.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementYes
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimelightTouch
Covered byNot published
Submission policyNot published
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetValue not published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents1
Planning milestones1
MilestoneTypeDueStatus
Milton Keynes City Council has a statutory duty to ensure that there is sufficient, good quality and safe provision for the young people in its care in accordance with Section 22G of the Children Act 1989. The Supported Accommodation (England) Regulations 2023 provides a legal framework for everyone providing supported accommodation for looked after children and care leavers aged 16 and 17 for whom the local authority has a duty to accommodate or arrange accommodation. The Regulations include the Quality Standards which set out the outcomes that supported accommodation providers are expected to achieve, as well as the underpinning requirements that providers must meet to achieve them for supported accommodation for young people. The scope of the services will provide support and accommodation to the following – • 16/17 Yearr old Children in Care and Separated Migrant children (Shared and solo provisions with onsite staffing 24/7) • 18+ Transitioning to adulthood/Care leavers (Shared provision with floating support) This market engagement exercise aims to gather insights and best practice to design and enhance the delivery of young peoples supported accommodation in Milton Keynes to ensure services meet need, are effectively delivered and achieve personalised outcomes for young people. Please find details of the market engagement session below: Date: 06/01/2026 Time: 10:00am to 11:30am Location: Online via Microsoft Teams We are also keen to hear from providers on the questions given in the market engagement document. The responses to the questions will help the Council in developing the specification and the tender. Please respond to the questions within the document and confirm your attendance by latest 5pm on 29th December 2025 via In-Tend Correspondence section/market engagement stage. The Market Engagement document can be accessed on our e-tendering portal: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/milton-keynes/aspx/Homeengagement29 Dec 2025scheduled

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Documents & submission route

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-05e268
Latest release ID079200-2025
Latest release timestampWed Dec 03 2025 09:57:49 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLNot published
Tender statusplanned
Procurement methodNot published
Procurement method detailsNot published
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: endNot published
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadlineNot published
Award period: startNot published
Award period: endNot published
Submission method detailsNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender value£38,160,000
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source0
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release1

Notice history

DateEventReference
3 Dec 2025planning079200-2025
17 Nov 2025planning074370-2025

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

Complete current OCDS release JSON
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Complete JSON history (2 releases)
3 Dec 2025 · 079200-2025 · planning
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