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ESCC - MA - Coroner Removals Service

Community ServicesCPV 85000000

Value£600,000

Deadline20 Oct 2026

Published17 Sept 2026

RegionNationwide

£600,000 — stated in the notice

Timeline

Published 17 Sept 202630 days leftCloses 20 Oct 2026

Who to contact

Michelle.Anderson@eastsussex.gov.uk

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

How to submit

Open the submissions portal

The submission route named on the official notice.

Contract value in context

£600ktotal contract value

median £380k

this tender£0£16.5m

This sits in the upper-middle of the Health & Social Care band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 32,734 valued Health & Social Care tenders in our corpus.

When this comes round again

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The brief

East Sussex County Council (The Council) invites bids from suitably qualified and experienced providers to deliver Coroner Removals Services.

Services are for the removal of bodies in the County of East Sussex where a death has been referred to H.M.

Coroner within the East Sussex Coroner Area.

Contractor's attendants must have an up-to-date Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check conducted and approved.

The contract will be for Three (3) years with option to extend for up to twenty-four (24) months.

As this is a demand led service the Council is unable to give any assurances as to the number of occasions and the time of day on which the services of the Contractor will be required.

The Council therefore expects the Contractor to have sufficient operational resources to provide cover within the timescales for the area(s) for which they have responsibility, 24 hours a day, 365 days per year.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

Contractor's attendants must have an up-to-date Disclosure

Contractor's attendants must have an up-to-date Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check conducted and approved.

The Council therefore expects the Contractor

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 in obligation language, 0 mentioned. Each one is quoted from the notice.

DBS checksays mustPersonnel clearance & vetting · per person

Contractor's attendants must have an up-to-date Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check conducted and approved.

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.

What it takes to bid this

12–20 daysof bid-team effort

£8.2k–£13.7kat typical UK bid-team rates

Typical UK bid effort for the £100k–£1m band — an estimate, not a quote.

Qualify & bid/no-bid ~10% · SQ / PQQ ~20% · Written response ~55% · Review & presentation ~15%

Typical for this category — confirm against the ITT pack

Hold at bidCQC registration / safeguarding policies
Plan for deliveryDBS-checked staff & vetting process
Plan for deliveryTUPE (incumbent staff often transfer)
Show at bidComparable references / case studies
Hold at bidFinancial standing (accounts, often ~2× contract value turnover)
Hold at bidInsurance cover (PL / EL, often PI)
Show at bidSocial value commitments

Hold at bid = pass/fail conditions of participation. Show at bid = scored in the quality response. Plan for delivery = contract obligations from day one.

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