Official UK procurement notice
Reablement Care Service · UK public procurement notice
Authority: London Borough of Enfield (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Reablement Care Service shall provide short-term, outcome-focused support to eligible Enfield residents who require assistance to regain, maintain or improve their independence following discharge from hospital.
The externally commissioned support will focus on hospital discharge pathways only and will be underpinned by a strong reablement approach. The service will provide time-limited, person-centred support in residents’ own homes, with the primary aim of enabling individuals to regain confidence, relearn or restore daily living skills, and continue to live as independently as possible within their own home.
Suppliers will be expected to take an enabling, outcome-focused approach, doing with rather than doing for individuals wherever appropriate. Support should help people rebuild practical skills, establish safe routines, improve mobility and confidence, manage everyday tasks, and reduce or avoid the need for ongoing domiciliary care wherever this can be achieved safely.
The Council is seeking market insight on the service delivery models, solutions and areas of emerging best practice that could support the Council’s current requirements and inform improvements to future service delivery.
Information provided through this exercise will be used for information-gathering purposes only. It may help the Council understand solutions that are available in the market and may inform and shape any future requirements, reflecting common approaches across the marketplace where appropriate.
As outlined above, the intention of the Service is to ensure the provision of high-quality, accessible support for eligible residents requiring reablement support following hospital discharge, promoting independence, safety and wellbeing
Due to the need for a borough-wide service, the Council is currently considering dividing the future service into four (4) Lots, potentially split by four geographical areas: North West, South West, North East and South East of the borough (please refer to the Indicative Service Specification, Appendix 2 and the accompanying Introduction plus Appendix 2.A and Appendix 2.B for further information). Under this model, it is envisaged that four (4) Suppliers would deliver the Council’s next generation Reablement Care Service within a defined geographical area. The Council would welcome organisations’ views and feedback on this potential service delivery model through the SMT Questionnaire.
An indicative Service Specification, Appendix 2, and its accompanying documents (Introduction, Appendix 2.A and Appendix 2.B) are provided as part of the Preliminary Market Engagement documentation.
Additional information
Please note that organisations will not be prejudiced by any response or failure to respond to this preliminary market engagement.
CPV: Health and social work services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewal
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How London Borough of Enfield buys Health and social work services (CPV 85), and who usually turns up
London Borough of Enfield’s published record next to the market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Health and social work services (CPV 85) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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How often small and medium firms win.
Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.
The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.
Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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How often local firms win similar work.
Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.
Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in Greater London.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered. More of this buyer’s work stays local than in this market: 90% against 60%, n=21.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards have an award date within 62 days of the bid deadline.
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How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.
Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.
Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
Direct awards or one recorded bid are common here. Check the route before spending time on a bid.
How many bids did past lots attract?
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How many bids past lots received.
Each colour is a bid-count range. Only competed lots with a published count are included.
Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid63% / 26%
2–338% / 33%
4–60% / 24%
7+0% / 16%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
Each colour shows awards below, close to or above the published estimate, one lot at a time.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Below estimate25% / 37%
Within ±2%63% / 54%
Above estimate13% / 8%
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list
Lot #1CPV 85Published estimate£2.9m
This lot lists more than one class in CPV 85. The comparison uses that group.
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How many bids this lot may attract.
The forecast uses similar past competitions. The bar shows either that forecast or past bid counts; the line below says which.
Each lot shows its own forecast based on its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative. The bar shows 334 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid26%
2–333%
4–624%
7+16%
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Where the award price may land.
The forecast uses similar awards and the buyer’s estimate. The band covers the middle half of likely prices.
No comparable awards for this lot yet.
A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.
Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
| Supplier | This buyer’s earlier contract | Lot | Award value | Why listed |
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| Chosen Care Group LimitedEarlier contract | Care and Support Service at Reardon Courtnotice published Feb 2024 | — | £5.9m | Matched as the earlier contract |
Who could compete for this lot? i
Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
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Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.
About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
- Two views, kept apart. The authority’s own track record and the wider market for the same kind of work sit side by side and are never mixed. Where the local picture is too thin, a figure widens to a broader market and says which one it used.
- Forecasts are labelled. The price forecast and its range, possible competitors and the earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards: not published facts, not win chances and not price advice. Official notices do not say who is bidding.
- Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Light touch regime
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 8 Sept 2026, 11:44 BST
- Last source update
- 9 Sept 2026, 08:10 BST
- Authority reference
C9352- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-085151- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06f45dFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
8 Sept 2026 → 1 Jul 2027 · 4 dates- Planning notice published50 days ago8 Sept 2026, 11:44 BST
- Market engagement13 days ago14 Oct 2026, 23:59 BST
The London Borough of Enfield (‘the Council) is undertaking a preliminary market engagement to gather market intelligence and obtain views regarding the provision of a future Reablement Care Service in the borough.
As part of this preliminary market engagement, the Council invites interested organisations to engage by attending an online event on 7 October 2026 and by completing the Council’s Soft Market Test (SMT) Questionnaire. The SMT Questionnaire, Appendix 1, of the Preliminary Market Engagement documentation should be submitted by 12:00 noon on 14 October 2026. Please note, completed SMT Questionnaires are to be submitted via the messaging page of the Council’s procurement portal, Atamis, URL/link: londonboroughofenfield.my.site.com/s/Welcome ↗
The purpose of this preliminary market engagement is to help inform the Council’s options and further decision-making where appropriate. For the avoidance of doubt, this notice is, therefore, intended as an awareness-raising and information-gathering exercise only and is not a call for competition, nor is this a pre-qualification process, and is not the start of a formal procurement process.
Participation or non-participation in this preliminary market engagement shall not prevent any potential supplier from participating in, nor shall it place any potential supplier at an advantage in any future procurement opportunity.
It is anticipated that any future procurement opportunity following the Council’s preliminary market engagement phases could be published during Spring 2027. However, this timeframe is indicative only, and the Council reserves the right to reschedule any forthcoming publication at any time.
Suppliers should also be aware that, following the introduction of the new Procurement Act 2023, the Government have introduced a new Central Digital Platform, which is where contract opportunities are advertised via the new Find a Tender Service. Suppliers must register here to bid for any future Public Contract opportunities.
Guidance can be found using the following URL/link: www.gov.uk/government/publicati… ↗
Participants should note that they are responsible for their own costs associated with participating in this preliminary market engagement. The Council will not be liable for any costs incurred by potential suppliers as a result of their participation in the exercise.
- Today28 Oct 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 169 days15 Apr 2027, 23:59 BST
- Contract startsin 245 days1 Jul 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 8 Sept 2026- Preliminary market engagement notice published8 Sept 2026, 11:44 BSTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published9 Sept 2026, 08:10 BSTUK2
Published amendments (1)
CPV Code change to 85000000 : Health and social work services
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender