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ASC23043 - Positive Behaviour Support Supported Living Services in Herefordshire & Worcestershire DPS

HealthcareCPV 85000000

Value£10.5m

Deadline30 Aug 2027

Published23 Apr 2024

RegionNationwide

Timeline

Published 23 Apr 2024367 days leftCloses 30 Aug 2027

Who to contact

Alison Atkinson

aatkinson1@worcestershire.gov.uk

+44 1907766104

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

£10.5mtotal contract value

median £380k

this tender£0£16.5m

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

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.

Which is the argument for getting on the list rather than winning this one. The incumbent is rarely the last winner — it is the roster. See the retention odds by category →

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The brief

Worcestershire County Council ("the Council") and the NHS Worcestershire and Herefordshire Integrated Care Board ("ICB"), together the Participating Authorities are establishing a joint Dynamic Purchasing System ("the DPS") for the provision of Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) Supported Living Services in Herefordshire and Worcestershire and seek 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

…cil ("the Council") and the NHS Worcestershire and Herefordshire Integrated Care Board ("ICB"), together the Participating Authorities are establishing a joint Dynamic Purchasing System ("the DPS") for the provision of Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) Supported Living Services in Herefordshire and Worcestershire and se…

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

45–80 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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