Official UK procurement notice
HAC6145 Antill Road Day Activities
Authority: Tower Hamlets
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Council will seek an innovative, creative, flexible and committed provider prepared to work in close and effective partnership with adults with learning disability, their family/carer and a wide range of local partners, including the Community Learning Disability Team (CLDS) and departments within the Council. The Provider will be required to deliver tailored, person-centred day activity services for people with a learning disability and autistic adults. The provider will offer a range of activities that support with life skills, training, employment, clinical and health care services, and social interactions which are aimed at supporting people to develop or maintain their independence within the community and promote inclusion .The contract will offer people choice, personalisation and flexibility, supporting them to develop their social, emotional, communication and independent living skills and to participate in mainstream community activities.
- The authority expects to re-tender this requirement around 2 Aug 2027, 23:59 BST.
CPV: Health and social work services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1Published value£667,590
- Economic & financial standing
Full detail is included in the ITT
Financial evaluation will be as follows.
Potential Suppliers that fail to meet either/both of the minimum requirements will be excluded from the process and their bid will not be further considered.
Bidders will be required to provide documentary evidence, in the form of the last 2 years’ full/detailed Financial Statements, inclusive of Turnover figures (audited if required by Law), to demonstrate their ability to meet the various metrics set out in this section, whether this be for the bidding organisation, or the parent company or group on whom reliance has been placed to meet the financial threshold. If Bidders fail to provide the required documentary evidence, this may result in a fail.
Bidders will need to provide the complete/full/detailed version of their Financial Statements. If they are exempt from publishing their full accounts, they must still provide their Turnover figures for the last two financial years or for the years covered by their Financial Statements. Failure to do so will result in a fail.
Turnover
The Bidders annual turnover must be at least twice the annual contract value for this Contract which is £667,590. Therefore, Bidders must have an annual turnover of at least £1,335,180.
D&B Risk Indicator
The Authority will request a report produced from Dun and Bradstreet which is a corporation that offers information on commercial credit and reports on businesses in comparison with other business in the same field.
The Bidder’s D&B Rating – Risk Indicator will be given a score based on the following table:
Risk Indicator Probability of Failure
1 Minimum Risk
2 Lower than average
3 Higher than average
4 High risk
- Insufficient Information
3.3.8 Bidders must achieve a risk indicator of 1 or 2. A score of 3 or 4 will result in a fail.
D&B Failure Score
3.3.9 Where a Bidder passes the Economic and Financial Standing evaluation, should the Dun and Bradstreet Probability of Failure Score be higher than the national average, the Authority reserves the right to require a parent company guarantee, a performance bond or alternative security for any contract award.
- Technical & professional ability
Full detail is included in the ITT
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Published sub-criteria (3)
- Quality Method Statements: 60%
- Price: 30%
- Social Value: 10%
Published award criteria (3)
- Quality Method Statements: Response to the quality method statements as set out in the ITT
- Social Value: Completion of the social value matrix and response to a single quality method statement as set out in the ITT
- Price: Evaluation of the bidders tender price as set out in the ITT
- Economic & financial standing
Full detail is included in the ITT
Financial evaluation will be as follows.
Potential Suppliers that fail to meet either/both of the minimum requirements will be excluded from the process and their bid will not be further considered.
Bidders will be required to provide documentary evidence, in the form of the last 2 years’ full/detailed Financial Statements, inclusive of Turnover figures (audited if required by Law), to demonstrate their ability to meet the various metrics set out in this section, whether this be for the bidding organisation, or the parent company or group on whom reliance has been placed to meet the financial threshold. If Bidders fail to provide the required documentary evidence, this may result in a fail.
Bidders will need to provide the complete/full/detailed version of their Financial Statements. If they are exempt from publishing their full accounts, they must still provide their Turnover figures for the last two financial years or for the years covered by their Financial Statements. Failure to do so will result in a fail.
Turnover
The Bidders annual turnover must be at least twice the annual contract value for this Contract which is £667,590. Therefore, Bidders must have an annual turnover of at least £1,335,180.
D&B Risk Indicator
The Authority will request a report produced from Dun and Bradstreet which is a corporation that offers information on commercial credit and reports on businesses in comparison with other business in the same field.
The Bidd…
- Technical & professional ability
Full detail is included in the ITT
- Price carries 30 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 3 points. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Closed
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Yes · next expected 2 Aug 2027
- First published
- 23 Sept 2026, 21:20 BST
- Last source update
- 23 Sept 2026, 21:20 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 24 Nov 2026
- Authority reference
HAC6145- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-090352- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06f784Find a Tender- Contract terms summary
All payment terms are included in the contract documentation included with this tender
- Risks
Risks include:
- increases to the london, and other, living wage
- an increase in demand for the service
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 23 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
- Clarification deadline
- 13 Oct 2026, 17:00 BST
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
All tenders are to be submitted on the London Tenders Portal (www.londontenders.org ↗) under opportunity DN827581
Timeline
11 Sept 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 8 dates- Planning notice published47 days ago11 Sept 2026, 08:16 BST
- Market engagement40 days ago17 Sept 2026, 23:59 BST
PME event to be held 21/09/2026
- Next notice expected35 days ago22 Sept 2026, 23:59 BST
- Tender notice published34 days ago23 Sept 2026, 21:20 BST
- Clarification questions by14 days ago13 Oct 2026, 17:00 BST
- Submission deadline4 days ago23 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
- Today28 Oct 2026
- Award decision expected byin 27 days24 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 154 days1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
2 events · 1 release on Find a Tender · since 11 Sept 2026- Preliminary market engagement notice published11 Sept 2026, 08:16 BSTUK2
- Tender notice published23 Sept 2026, 21:20 BSTUK4
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (4)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Bidding documents and specifications All documents can be accessed free of charge on the London Tenders Portal under project DN827581
- Technical specifications All documents can be accessed free of charge on the London Tenders Portal under project DN827581
Notices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender