Official UK procurement notice
Young People Supported Accommodation
Authority: Milton Keynes Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionMilton 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: in-tendhost.co.uk/milton-keynes/aspx/Home ↗
CPV: Health and social work services · Social work and related services · Social work services · Social work services with accommodation
How this framework works
From the published notice- Framework period
- 4 yrs · up to 8 yrs from 1 Dec 2026
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedWhat 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).
- “Young People Supported Accommodation” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Milton Keynes Council buys Social work services (CPV 8531), and who usually turns up
Milton Keynes Council’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. This notice is a framework or DPS, so only frameworks and DPS are compared. Whole-market view: Social work services (CPV 8531) →
How the contest usually goes
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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.
No supplier sizes published for this authority.
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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.
Here, local means registered in South East England.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
No winner locations published for this authority. Local means a registered address in South East England.
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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 80 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 market share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
No awards recorded for this authority in this market.
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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 bid0% / 0%
2–338% / 0%
4–613% / 0%
7+50% / 100%
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.
On a framework or DPS, prices are agreed when work is called off.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Not comparable on a framework or DPS. The notice sets up a supplier panel and a ceiling value; what the work actually costs is agreed later, on each call-off or mini-competition, and those publish as contract notices of their own. The award-vs-estimate record of this market therefore sits on the call-offs; this page shows it on the contracts, not on the panel that frames them.
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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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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£38m
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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 19 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid0%
2–30%
4–60%
7+100%
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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.
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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.
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
- Framework agreement
- Who may use this agreement
- Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 17 Nov 2025, 12:28 GMT
- Last source update
- 3 Dec 2025, 09:57 GMT
- Authority reference
2025-061- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-079200- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05e268Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Appointment period ends
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Timeline
17 Nov 2025 → 1 Dec 2026 · 5 dates- Planning notice published339 days ago17 Nov 2025, 12:28 GMT
- Latest notice published323 days ago3 Dec 2025, 09:57 GMT
- Market engagement296 days ago29 Dec 2025, 23:59 GMT
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: in-tendhost.co.uk/milton-keynes/aspx/Home ↗
- Tender notice expected204 days ago31 Mar 2026, 23:59 BST
- Today22 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 40 days1 Dec 2026
Notice history
2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 17 Nov 2025- Pipeline notice published17 Nov 2025, 12:28 GMTUK1
- Preliminary market engagement notice published3 Dec 2025, 09:57 GMTUK2
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 (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Pipeline notice Pipeline notice on Find a Tender