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AWC - Stray dog collection and kennelling service
Forecast: a planned procurement that is not yet at tender stage.
01/ The notice
Key facts
- Value
- £175,000Estimated value stated in the notice
- Deadline (UK time)
- No open deadlineA deadline does not apply to this forecast notice.
- Published
- 9 Dec 2025
- Region
- Not stated
02/ The brief
What the notice says
Not fully read: this is the notice text; attached documents are not read.
Adur District, Worthing Borough and Arun District council are seeking a provider to deliver it's stray dog and kennelling service.
The council's are proposing to use an open tender process to appoint contracts across up to 2 lots;
Lot 1: Adur and Worthing Councils
Lot 2: Adur Council
The Contract term will be up to 5 years with an initial 3 years terms and up to 2x 1 year extensions.
The service will involve the collection of reported stray dogs in the Adur, Arun or Worthing Council areas, their kennelling for up to 7 days and management of owner collection / unclaimed strays. This will include all relevant care and reporting requirements.
In order to ensure that dogs can be collected from a suitable location this tender will be limited to providers who can offer kennelling locations within West Sussex or it's direct neighbours.
This tender is limited to those providers who are able to demonstrate they have a valid and acceptable standard of dog kennel boarding license.
Across all three areas the average number of dogs collected was 120 per year.
It is anticipated that the tender will go live on the 12th of January 2026 and the contract will start from the 01st of April 2026.
03/ Classification
CPV codes
Common Procurement Vocabulary codes, exactly as the notice lists them. No descriptions are added here.
- 98380000
04/ History
Releases of this notice
3 releases held, oldest first. Dates are UK time.
- 9 Dec 2025Planning notice
Planning notice published 9 December 2025.
Release 081146-2025
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab) - 16 Dec 2025Planning notice update
Planning notice update published 16 December 2025. Stated change: Lot 2: description changed to note Arun instead of Adur.
Release 083228-2025
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab) - 16 Dec 2025Planning notice update
Planning notice update published 16 December 2025. Stated change: The term remains at 5 years - but the split is a 2 years initial term with 3 x 1 year extensions available.
Release 083412-2025
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab)
05/ Limits
What the source does not tell us
- None recorded for the fields above. Attached documents are not read, so this is not a full account of the tender.
06/ Questions
About this notice
07/ Related
Where to go next
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- Reference
- ocds-h6vhtk-05f202
- Source
- Find a Tender
- Stage
- planning · Planning
- Last verified
- Fri 3 Apr 2026, 21:28 BST
- Read at
- Sat 17 Oct 2026, 00:22 BST
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