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Somerset Council

Specialist Adults Support in Somerset - Dynamic Purchasing System

HealthcareCPV 85000000
Value£980.0m
Deadline30 Mar 2029
Published23 Feb 2024
RegionNationwide
Timeline
Published 23 Feb 2024945 days leftCloses 30 Mar 2029
Who to contact
Mr Steve Barker
stephen.barker@somerset.gov.uk
+44 7766526294

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
£980.0mtotal contract value
median £380k
this tender£0£1.1bn

This is a large award for Health & Social Care — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 32,734 valued Health & Social Care tenders in our corpus.

When this comes round again

Somerset Council publishes Health & Social Care work continuously — 113 notices, roughly one every 6 days. This is a stream to watch, not a cycle to wait for.

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The brief

Providers must apply for each individual service type subject to the criteria of each service type detailed in the individual specifications, as listed below; • Residential • Supported Living • Domiciliary Care • Day Opportunities and Community Outreach • Employment Support • Respite including Short Breaks

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

Providers must apply for each individual service

Providers must apply for each individual service type subject to the criteria of each service type detailed in the individual specifications, as listed below;.

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.

Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS)Frameworks & routes to market
Specialist Adults Support in Somerset - Dynamic Purchasing System

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

4580 daysof bid-team effort
£30.8k£54.8kat typical UK bid-team rates

Typical UK bid effort for the £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-043c5a
Stage
tender · Open
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
005900-2024
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Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source data © Crown copyright.

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