Re-opening of Peer Outreach Service Framework - January 2026

This tender provides basic administrative details but suffers from a severe lack of substantive information, including no attached documents, undisclosed estimated value, and generic requirements, making it difficult for potential bidders to prepare a comprehensive and competitive offer.

The tender appears to follow an open procedure, which is generally compliant. However, the absence of detailed mandatory exclusion grounds and financial requirements in the provided extract, coupled with no attached documents, makes a full assessment of legal compliance challenging.

The description of the service and the framework re-opening is clear. However, the requirements for eligibility, technical capability, and financial standing are extremely generic and lack specific criteria, making it difficult for bidders to understand what is truly expected.

This is the weakest aspect. The tender is critically incomplete, lacking essential documents, estimated value, detailed financial and technical requirements, and evaluation criteria. Bidders cannot fully understand the scope or expectations.

The open procedure and explicit statement that both new and existing providers can apply for new areas promote fairness in principle. However, the severe lack of detailed information and evaluation criteria could inadvertently disadvantage new bidders or those without prior knowledge of the council's expectations, potentially favoring incumbents or those with insider information. The absence of evaluation criteria is a major fairness concern.

From the contracting authority's perspective, the lack of detailed requirements and evaluation criteria could lead to a wide range of submissions, making evaluation difficult and potentially subjective. From a bidder's perspective, preparing a meaningful bid without essential information (documents, value, specific criteria) is highly impractical.

The provided data is internally consistent, but its limited nature makes a thorough consistency check difficult.

There is no mention of green procurement or any other sustainability criteria within the provided information.