Children's External Placements Education & Tuition PDPS Reopening 1

  • Peterborough City Council

F14: Notice for changes or additional information

Notice identifier: 2026/S 000-009975

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-06148b

Published 4 February 2026, 1:16pm



Section one: Contracting authority/entity

one.1) Name and addresses

Peterborough City Council

Sand Martin House Peterborough, Bittern Way

Peterborough

PE28TY

Contact

Christian Menendez

Email

christian.menendez@peterborough.gov.uk

Country

United Kingdom

Region code

UKH11 - Peterborough

Justification for not providing organisation identifier

Not on any register

Internet address(es)

Main address

https://www.peterborough.gov.uk/business/supplying-the-council/supply-opportunities

Buyer's address

https://www.peterborough.gov.uk/business/supplying-the-council/supply-opportunities


Section two: Object

two.1) Scope of the procurement

two.1.1) Title

Children's External Placements Education & Tuition PDPS Reopening 1

Reference number

DN794100

two.1.2) Main CPV code

  • 85000000 - Health and social work services

two.1.3) Type of contract

Services

two.1.4) Short description

The procurement is to reopen a multi supplier "pseudo DPS" (referred to as "PDPS"). As the PDPS Agreement will be "pseudo PDPS", it will look and feel similar to a DPS agreement set up under Regulation 34 of the PCR. This means that the Authority envisages the PDPS will re-open at (12) twelve-month intervals (or at other intervals at the Authority's discretion) for new providers to apply or previously unsuccessful providers to re-apply. Reopening of the PDPS is solely at the discretion of the Authority.

The Procurement is being run using a procedure similar to the open procedure described in Regulation 27of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (as amended). However, the Authority reserves the right to deviate from the formalities of the open procedure given the flexibilities permitted by Regulation 76 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (as amended) in the conduct of procurements for "Social and Other Specific Services", otherwise referred to as "Light Touch Regime" procurement

• Lot 1 Independent Fostering Agencies

• Lot 2 Residential Children's Homes

• Lot 3 Independent Special Education Provisions/Post 16 Placements

• Lot 4 Out of School Tuition

• Lot 5 Post 16 Alternative Provision

There is an additional Lot 6 which will comprise of mini competition stage for block contracts, Please note that only those bidders that are awarded onto Lots as detailed below will be invited to participate in mini competition

• Lot 6a - Only those successfully awarded onto Lot 1 Independent Fostering Agency will be invited to participate

• Lot 6b - Only those successfully awarded onto Lot 2 Residential Children's Homes will be invited to participate

• Lot 6c - Only those successfully awarded ont Lot 3 Independent Special Education Provision will be invited to participate

• Lot 6d - Only those successfully awarded onto Lot 4 Out of School Tuition and Alternative Provision will be invited to participate

• Lot 6e - Only those successfully awarded onto Lot 5 Post 16 Education will be invited to participate

Where it is appropriate to do so, Peterborough is committed to supporting children and young people to remain living and learning in their local area.

It should be noted that for Independent Special Educational Provisions offering 38+ week boarding or 52 week placements, Providers will need to meet the requirements within both the Lot 3 Specification (for ISEPS) and Lot 2 Specification (for Residential Children's Homes)

The definition of Partner Organisation for the purpose of this procurement will be any Educational Establishment within Peterborough as defined at: https://www.peterborough.gov.uk/residents/schools-and-education/all-schools-colleges, or

any Local Authority Council in England whether County, Unitary, District, Borough, Metropolitan, parish or community Council as defined at http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Dl1/Directories/Localcouncils/index.htm


Section six. Complementary information

six.6) Original notice reference

Notice number: 2026/S 000-009102


Section seven. Changes

seven.1) Information to be changed or added

seven.1.2) Text to be corrected in the original notice

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The procurement documents are available for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge, at

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The procurement documents are available for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge, at

https://procontract.due-north.com/Advert?advertId=8ccfd6da-4500-f111-813c-005056b64545

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Tenders or requests to participate must be submitted electronically via

https://procontract.due-north.com/Procurer/Advert/View?advertId=8ccfd6da-4500-f111-813c-005056b64545&fromAdvertEvent=True

Tenders or requests to participate must be submitted to the above-mentioned address

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Tenders or requests to participate must be submitted electronically via

https://procontract.due-north.com/Advert?advertId=8ccfd6da-4500-f111-813c-005056b64545

Tenders or requests to participate must be submitted to the above-mentioned address

seven.2) Other additional information

In section I.3 (Communication) the ProContract link was not working as intended. A new link has been provided to take interested economic operators directly to the opportunity on ProContract.