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CWC24095 - Outreach Short Breaks Service for children and young people with SEND aged 2-18 years[E11]

Wolverhampton, United KingdomWolverhampton City Council[E1]

In plain English

What they want: The Outreach Short Breaks Service is a specialist provision providing home-based and community-based support to children and young people assessed as eligible by the SEND FHS. This service specification has two separate Lots. •Lot One: At home and/or community support Provide care to a child or young person with medium or high needs at home, or to support with accessing community facilities.
Who can bid: No restrictions are stated in the notice data. The tender documents may set more.
Deadline: Buyer's deadline: 20 Mar 2025, 12:00 UTC. UTC: 20 Mar 2025, 12:00 UTC.
Published 21 Feb 2025.
Value: GBP 3,236,450
Buyer: Wolverhampton City CouncilSee what else this buyer buys and when.
How to apply: Through the buyer's official process. Open the original notice on UK Contracts Finder (OCDS) (opens in a new tab) ↗
Tender documents: The tender documents for this notice are on the buyer's own portal, usually behind a free supplier registration. We link to them and do not fetch them, so the report is based on the notice only.

This opportunity is closed and its deadline has passed. Reports are not available for it.

Deadline[E4]: 20 Mar 2025, 12:00 UTC
Value[E12]: GBP 3,236,450
Published[E9]: 21 Feb 2025
Procedure[E8]: Open procedure (above threshold)
Source: UK Contracts Finder (OCDS) (opens in a new tab)
Last checked: 3 hours ago

About the requirement

From the notice

The Outreach Short Breaks Service is a specialist provision providing home-based and community-based support to children and young people assessed as eligible by the SEND FHS. This service specification has two separate Lots. •Lot One: At home and/or community support Provide care to a child or young person with medium or high needs at home, or to support with accessing community facilities. •Lot Two: Group based community activities Provide group-based community activities for children and young people with medium or complex needs. The procurement is for services which are considered Light Touch Regime (LTR) services under the Public Frameworks Regulations 2015, as specified in Schedule 3 of the Regulations ("Regulations"). Accordingly, the Council is only bound by those parts of the Regulations detailed in Chapter 3 'Particular Procurement Regimes Section 7, Social and Other Specific Services' 74 to 76 of the Public Frameworks Regulations 2015. The Council is not voluntarily following any other part of the Regulations. The procedure which the Council is following is set out within this ITT. The agreement is based upon the basic principles of a framework agreement, and although there are some similar aspects, it does not fully operate in the same way as outlined in regulation 33 of the Public Contracts Regulations (2015). The Local Authority will create a "pseudo framework agreement" (based on CCS guidance) and have set out clearly how we intend to operate the framework agreement from the outset through the OJEU notice, Tender Document and Call-off…[E5]

Eligibility and requirements

ConditionDelivery location: United Kingdom.[E6]
The notice data states no restriction on who may bid. Exclusion grounds and selection criteria in the tender documents still apply.

Risks and unknowns

UnknownWe read the published notice, not the full tender documents.

Updates

First seen · 28 Oct 2026, 13:39 UTC
The deadline (2025-03-20T12:00:00.000Z) has passed.
Source document 94b82620-f31b-4edc-b95f-9f4393b34e13-829557

Evidence

12 facts

Every fact on this page comes from the published notice. Each entry shows the document and the field it was read from.

E1
The buyer is Wolverhampton City Council.
Document 94b82620-f31b-4edc-b95f-9f4393b34e13-829557, field /buyer/name, read 28 Oct 2026, 13:39 UTC · source (opens in a new tab)
E2
The notice is classified under CPV 85300000 (Social work and related services).
Document 94b82620-f31b-4edc-b95f-9f4393b34e13-829557, field /tender/classification/id, read 28 Oct 2026, 13:39 UTC · source (opens in a new tab)
E3
Contracts Finder publishes United Kingdom procurement.
“England”
Document 94b82620-f31b-4edc-b95f-9f4393b34e13-829557, field /tender, read 28 Oct 2026, 13:39 UTC · source (opens in a new tab)
E4
Tenders must be submitted by 20 Mar 2025, 12:00 UTC.
“2025-03-20T12:00:00Z”
Document 94b82620-f31b-4edc-b95f-9f4393b34e13-829557, field /tender/tenderPeriod/endDate, read 28 Oct 2026, 13:39 UTC · source (opens in a new tab)
E5
The buyer describes the requirement in the notice.
“The Outreach Short Breaks Service is a specialist provision providing home-based and community-based support to children and young people assessed as eligible by the SEND FHS. This service specification has two separate Lots. •Lot One: At home and/or community support Provide ca…”
Document 94b82620-f31b-4edc-b95f-9f4393b34e13-829557, field /tender/description, read 28 Oct 2026, 13:39 UTC · source (opens in a new tab)
E6
Delivery location: United Kingdom.
Document 94b82620-f31b-4edc-b95f-9f4393b34e13-829557, field /tender/items/0/deliveryAddresses/0, read 28 Oct 2026, 13:39 UTC · source (opens in a new tab)
E7
This is a call for competition. Suppliers can respond.
“tender”
Document 94b82620-f31b-4edc-b95f-9f4393b34e13-829557, field /tag, read 28 Oct 2026, 13:39 UTC · source (opens in a new tab)
E8
The procedure is: Open procedure (above threshold).
Document 94b82620-f31b-4edc-b95f-9f4393b34e13-829557, field /tender/procurementMethodDetails, read 28 Oct 2026, 13:39 UTC · source (opens in a new tab)
E9
The notice was published on 21 Feb 2025.
“2025-02-21T15:47:42Z”
Document 94b82620-f31b-4edc-b95f-9f4393b34e13-829557, field /tender/documents/0/datePublished, read 28 Oct 2026, 13:39 UTC · source (opens in a new tab)
E10
Contracts Finder gives the tender status as active.
Document 94b82620-f31b-4edc-b95f-9f4393b34e13-829557, field /tender/status, read 28 Oct 2026, 13:39 UTC · source (opens in a new tab)
E11
The notice is titled "CWC24095 - Outreach Short Breaks Service for children and young people with SEND aged 2-18 years".
Document 94b82620-f31b-4edc-b95f-9f4393b34e13-829557, field /tender/title, read 28 Oct 2026, 13:39 UTC · source (opens in a new tab)
E12
The stated value is GBP 3,236,450.
“3236450 GBP”
Document 94b82620-f31b-4edc-b95f-9f4393b34e13-829557, field /tender/value/amount, read 28 Oct 2026, 13:39 UTC · source (opens in a new tab)

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