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Worcestershire County Council

DPS for Provision of Short Breaks Support Worker Services and Domiciliary Home Care for Children and Young People with Disabilities and Complex Health Needs in Worcestershire

HealthcareCPV 85312200
Value£2.0m
Deadline28 Feb 2027
Published11 Oct 2021
RegionNationwide
Timeline
Published 11 Oct 2021184 days leftCloses 28 Feb 2027
Who to contact
procurement@worcestershire.gov.uk
droe@worcestershire.gov.uk
+44 1905844896

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
£2.0mtotal 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

Worcestershire County Council publishes Health & Social Care work continuously — 166 notices, roughly one every 12 days. This is a stream to watch, not a cycle to wait for.

31% of Worcestershire County Council’s awards go to a supplier it has used before.

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The brief

Worcestershire Children First is establishing a Dynamic Purchasing System (the DPS) for Provision of Short Breaks Support Worker Services and Domiciliary Home Care for Children and Young People with Disabilities and Complex Health Needs in Worcestershire and seeks applications from suitably experienced, qualified and appropriately accredited Suppliers who wish to pre-qualify for this Service.

The gates

What this notice demands of you

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

Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS)Frameworks & routes to market
Worcestershire Children First is establishing a Dynamic Purchasing System (the DPS) for Provision of Short Breaks Support Worker Services and Domiciliary Home Care for Children and Young People with Disabilities and Complex Health Needs in Worcestershire and seeks applications from suitably experienced, qualified and…

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

2540 daysof bid-team effort
£17.1k£27.4kat typical UK bid-team rates

Typical UK bid effort for the £1m–£10m 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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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-02ea55
Stage
tender · Open
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
025320-2021
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