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Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children (UASC) Support Services
Live: the notice is at tender stage.
01/ The notice
Key facts
- Value
- £4,500,000Estimated value stated in the notice
- Deadline (UK time)
- Wed 21 Oct 2026, 23:59 BSTOpen for bids.
- Published
- 12 Oct 2026
- Region
- Not stated
02/ The brief
What the notice says
Not fully read: this is the notice text; attached documents are not read.
The Home Office (the Authority) has a statutory duty under Section 55 of the Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Act 2009 to discharge its immigration and asylum functions having regard to the need to safeguard and promote the welfare of children in the UK.
This includes Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children (UASC) who arrive in the UK and enter the immigration system without a parent or guardian.
The Support Services for UASC ensure that their immediate needs are met upon arrival in Kent, or elsewhere, prior to entering the care of a local authority. Additionally, there is a need to ensure UASC have access to information and support to help them navigate the asylum process.
The services will operate alongside, and in collaboration with the Authority and a range of other services and Authority suppliers, to enable the effective operation of the system to manage and support UASC. It is recognised that service users may require only one, or a combination of these services at any given time. Therefore, all services areas must be available, but would be delivered on an as-required basis, according to the needs of each individual case.
The core service areas are:
Service Area 1: Delivery of Services at Kent Intake Unit (KIU)
Service Area 2: Delivery of Orientation Sessions
03/ Classification
CPV codes
Common Procurement Vocabulary codes, exactly as the notice lists them. No descriptions are added here.
- 85310000
- 85311300
- 85312000
- 85312400
- 85321000
04/ History
Releases of this notice
3 releases held, oldest first. Dates are UK time.
- 31 Mar 2026Planning notice
Planning notice published 31 March 2026.
Release 029405-2026
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab) - 11 Sep 2026Tender notice
Tender notice published 11 September 2026. The notice text changed; the source gives no change note.
Deadline in this release: Fri 16 Oct 2026, 23:59 BST.
Release 086663-2026
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab) - 12 Oct 2026Tender notice update
Tender notice update published 12 October 2026. The source does not state what changed.
Deadline in this release: Wed 21 Oct 2026, 23:59 BST.
Release 096320-2026
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab)
05/ Limits
What the source does not tell us
- None recorded for the fields above. Attached documents are not read, so this is not a full account of the tender.
06/ Questions
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07/ Related
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- Reference
- ocds-h6vhtk-067882
- Source
- Find a Tender
- Stage
- tender · Open
- Last verified
- Mon 12 Oct 2026, 20:21 BST
- Read at
- Tue 20 Oct 2026, 21:00 BST
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