SEND Independent School Placements - DPS
The submission route named on the official notice.
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.
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The Council is running a system called a Dynamic Purchasing System ("DPS") in order to open up SEND Non-Maintained and Independent School Day and Residential Placements contract opportunities to competition and to achieve best value.
This Dynamic Purchasing System ("DPS") is an opportunity to be involved in providing SEND Non-Maintained and Independent School Day and Residential Placements for children and young people with disabilities and/or special educational needs.
The Services required by the Council are detailed in the Service Specification and Annex 1 – Further Requirements.
What this notice demands of you
1 named, none in explicit obligation language. Each one is quoted from the notice.
The Council is running a system called a Dynamic Purchasing System ("DPS") in order to open up SEND Non-Maintained and Independent School Day and Residential Placements contract opportunities to competition and to achieve best value.
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
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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- ocds-h6vhtk-035590
- Stage
- tender · Open
- Source
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- 020200-2022
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