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Central Bedfordshire Council

CBC-1807-T-TH EDT Contact Centre - AWARD

Business ServicesCPV 79342320 79342300 85000000 85300000
Value£250k
Awarded18 Jul 2025
Published6 Oct 2025
RegionUK-wide
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£250ktotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£1.6m

This is a large award for Business Services — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 57,319 valued Business Services tenders in our corpus.

The brief

Central Bedfordshire Council is undertaking a competitive tendering exercise to secure an independent Provider to manage the Emergency Duty Team (EDT) Contact Centre.

EDT provides an emergency social work service out of hours; the service is hosted by Central Bedfordshire Council (CBC) and provides a service to Bedford Borough Council (BBC) and Luton Borough Council (LBC) under Service Level Agreements.

EDT respond to all emergency social care situations that arise out of hours, and which cannot be left until the next working day.

EDT will act to ensure the immediate protection and safeguarding of children, young people, and adults who are at risk of harm.

All work is undertaken within the relevant legislative framework.

EDT operates 365 days service a year over 7 days a week, with operating hours totalling to around 129 hours per week on average.

The service operating hours are: • Monday to Thursday 5pm to 9pm • Friday from 4pm to Monday at 9am • 24 hours service on Public Holidays

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

EDT will act to ensure the immediate

EDT will act to ensure the immediate protection and safeguarding of children, young people, and adults who are at risk of harm.

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.

Safeguarding policyPolicies & commitments
EDT will act to ensure the immediate protection and safeguarding of children, young people, and adults who are at risk of harm.

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
b4ce8792-3902-41c4-ad52-d18f048f8519
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
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Buyer ref
IT-33-4597-CBC-1807-T-TH - AWARD
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