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Cumbria County Council

Regulation 44 Service for Cumbria's Children's Homes

HealthcareCPV 85300000
Value£64k
Awarded5 Dec 2022
Published17 Jan 2023
RegionLondon
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£64ktotal contract value
median £380k
this tender£0£16.5m

This sits below the typical range for Health & Social Care contracts — a smaller, more accessible award. Based on 32,734 valued Health & Social Care tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The council is procuring a Regulation 44 Service for Cumbria's Children's Homes.

The overall aim of this service is for the provider to undertake Regulation 44 visiting and reporting for each of the council's children's homes on behalf of the council, in line with statutory requirements, relevant guidance and any updates to these.

The council has the responsibility to ensure that its children's homes provide high quality care and accommodation to children looked after.

Children's residential homes are subject to Ofsted requirements, Quality Care Standards and Statutory Regulations.

The service provided will work with the council to ensure that high standards are maintained.

Please refer to the service specification for more details.

Please register on The Chest (https://www.the-chest.org.uk) to access all tender documents.

All bids must be received electronically via The Chest by the closing date stated in the ITT.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

The council has the responsibility to ensure

The council has the responsibility to ensure that its children's homes provide high quality care and accommodation to children looked after.

02

The service provided will work with

The service provided will work with the council to ensure that high standards are maintained.

03

All bids must be received electronically via

All bids must be received electronically via The Chest by the closing date stated in the ITT.

Sentences from the notice that state an obligation, surfaced automatically and shown in the order they appear. Not an exhaustive list — always confirm against the tender documents.

The gates

What this notice demands of you

1 named, none in explicit obligation language. Each one is quoted from the notice.

Ofsted registrationRegulator registrations
Children's residential homes are subject to Ofsted requirements, Quality Care Standards and Statutory Regulations.

Matched against the notice text, so this is a floor — the tender pack will demand things the notice never mentions. “Says must” means the quoted sentence itself used obligation language; anything ambiguous is left as a mention.

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Source & provenance
OCID
a3cb12c5-6bef-4fe3-98f3-f485aaf59118
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
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Buyer ref
CUM001-DN641323-40707266
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