Official UK procurement notice
Re- opening of Alternative Provision, Short Breaks and Early Intervention Framework
Authority: Swindon Borough Council (Local council)
What is being bought5 lots · detail below
Published requirement descriptionSwindon Borough Council is seeking to commission suitably qualified and experience service providers to join their framework. This is the annual reopening of the contract initially commissioned in May 2025 for 4 years with this being the 2nd year of the framework. Contract Notice: 2024/S 000-041583 refers.
Swindon Borough Council are re-opening their framework of providers to provide services against education Alternative Provision, Short Breaks and Early Intervention services.
The requirement is being divided into lots where providers can apply for any lot.
Clarifications will close 12:00noon on 15th April 2026.
The tender will close for submissions 12:00noon on 22nd April 2026.
Lots are:
Lot 1 Alternative Provision - Swindon Borough Council is seeking a suite of providers to deliver services to children who are not in mainstream education and to prioritise seeking the return of children back into schools setting.
Lot 2 Short Breaks - Specialist services - Providing services to help children with very specialist needs
Lot 3 Short Breaks - Inclusion- Providing services to help children integrate into everyday activity
Lot 4 Short Breaks - Overnight respite- providing overnight respite for carers of children with these needs
Lot 5 - Early intervention - providing services which help prevent children going into more advanced care solutions
Existing providers do not need to reapply, unless applying for a different lot.
Full details relating to the Services are provided in the tender documents.
CPV: Administrative educational services · Child daycare services · Daycare services · Daycare services for disabled children and young people · Education and training services · Health and social work services · Operation of an educational centre · Primary education services · Secondary education services · Social work and related services · Social work services without accommodation · Training services · +2 more
Lots and requirements (5)Procurement structure
5 lots · all with a published value · win at most 5 of themLot #1Alternative ProvisionPublished value£7,946,200
Swindon Borough Council is seeking a suite of providers to deliver services to children who need to access Alternative Provision and to prioritise seeking the return of children back into schools setting.
Lot #2Short Breaks - InclusionPublished value£1,173,600
Providing Short Break services to help children with very specialist needs
Lot #3Short Breaks InclusionPublished value£33,600
Providing services to help children integrate into everyday activity
Lot #4Short Breaks Overnight RespitePublished value£457,600
providing overnight respite for carers of children with these needs
Lot #5Early InterventionPublished value£510,448
providing services which help prevent children going into more advanced care solutions
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).
- “Re- opening of Alternative Provision, Short Breaks and Early…” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Closed
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Framework agreement
- Who may use this agreement
- Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 30 Dec 2024, 11:27 GMT
- Last source update
- 30 Mar 2026, 15:27 BST
- Award evaluation window
- 22 Apr 2026 – …
- Authority reference
DN811486- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-029209- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-04cd0eFind a Tender
- Performance terms
In the procurement documents
How it was run
Official notice- Appointment period ends
- 22 Apr 2026, 12:00 BST
- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bids opened
- 22 Apr 2026, 12:00 BST
Timeline
30 Mar 2026 → 22 Apr 2026 · 3 dates- Notice published211 days ago30 Mar 2026, 15:27 BST
- Admission / appointment period ends188 days ago · period end, not a bid countdown22 Apr 2026, 12:00 BST
- Bids opened188 days ago22 Apr 2026, 12:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 2 releases on Find a Tender- Deadline moved to 22 Apr 2026, 12:00 BST30 Mar 2026, 15:27 BST+450 days · was 27 Jan 2025, 14:00 GMT
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (4)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Economic and financial selection criteria
- Technical selection criteria
- Economic and financial selection criteria
- Technical selection criteria