Published date: 30 December 2025

Open opportunity - This means that the contract is currently active, and the buying department is looking for potential suppliers to fulfil the contract.


Closing: 30 January 2026, 5pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Maternity benefits - 75312000

  • Guidance and counselling services - 85312300

  • Counselling services - 85312320

Location of contract

SG17 5TQ

Value of contract

£0

Procurement reference

IT-33-4781-CBC-1868-T-SM

Published date

30 December 2025

Closing date

30 January 2026

Closing time

5pm

Contract start date

1 April 2026

Contract end date

31 March 2029

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (below threshold)

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

This procedure can be used for procurements below the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The provision of birth relative counselling for those affected by adoption as per Statutory Guidance on Adoption, Chapter 2.
Adoption Connects is a regional adoption agency providing adoption services for Central Bedfordshire and Milton Keynes councils therefore the duty to provide counselling should cover birth relatives from both council boundaries.

The Council will provide as much support and information as it can to help guide you through the quotation process. Questions asked together with the response, will be made available to all tenderers, to ensure a fair and consistent approach to all.

If there is anything you are not sure about or need clarification on, please use the Correspondence facility within the In-tend electronic tendering system. Last date for receiving questions on the In-Tend system: 27th January 2026

Completed Quotations and attachments should be submitted electronically by the due date via our In-tend electronic tendering system. Quotations must be uploaded via the My Return section of the system. Quotations submitted through the correspondence facility will not be considered. Your Quotation must be submitted via the In-tend system by no later than 30th January 2026 by 5pm
Quotations received after that time will be excluded.

More information

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Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No

How to apply

Follow the instructions given in the description or the more information section.

About the buyer

Contact name

Tony Sharpstone

Address

Priory House
Chicksands
Shefford
SG17 5TQ
United Kingdom

Telephone

03003008000

Email

tony.sharpstone@centralbedfordshire.gov.uk

Website

www.centralbedfordshire.gov.uk