Innovation Accelerator for Social Care business challenges

A Tender Notice
by OXFORDSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL

Source
Find a Tender
Type
Contract (Services)
Duration
3 year
Value
£2M
Sector
TECHNOLOGY
Published
28 Sep 2025
Delivery
01 Jun 2026 to 31 May 2029
Deadline
24 Oct 2025 11:00

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Location

Oxfordshire:

Geochart for 1 buyers and 0 suppliers

Description

Innovate Oxfordshire (part of Oxfordshire County Council) is proud to announce the initiation of a competitive flexible procedure (CFP) tender process, in alignment with our Local Government Accelerator - the first of its kind in the UK, with it's first Call to Action focused specifically on Adult Social Care. The Accelerator is designed to fast-track innovation within local government by supporting the development, testing, and scaling of transformative solutions that meet real-world challenges. By fostering collaboration between Local Authorities, Innovators, and Sector Experts, the Accelerator plays a critical role in improving outcomes for residents, reducing system pressures, and enabling smarter, more sustainable service delivery. The CFP has three stages as shown below and suppliers will be selected/deselected at each stage by reference to the evaluation criteria defined in the ITT. Stage 1 - Participation stage Stage 2 - Presentation and demonstration stage Stage 3 - Proof of Concept (POC) trial Tenderers that are short-listed to participate in the POC trial will be expected to operate their proposed solution, at their cost, for a period of 12 weeks. The Council is not obligated to Contract any solution proposed

Renewal Options

Optional extensions of 3years in aggregate

Award Criteria

Quality - Pass Fail Pass/Fail - participation criteria Applicable to all Tenderers responses to Part 1 and also subsequent stages if they are selected
Price Indicative pricing This criteria will only be used for Tenderers selected to participate in Stage 2 of the CFP as defined in the ITT
Quality - Scored (Technical) Scored criteria for Technical This will be used at Stage 1 of the CFP as identified in the ITT
Quality - Proof of Concept (POC) Assessment of outcomes of POC trial and benefit generated This criteria will only be used for Tenderers selected to particpate in Stage 3 of the CFP as defined in the ITT
Quality - Presentation and demonstration This criteria will only be used for Tenderers selected to participate in Stage 2 of the CFP as defined in the ITT

CPV Codes

  • 72000000 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

Indicators

  • Renewals are available.

Other Information

The Council tender documents will be published on its e-tendering portal called Proactis and hosted on the South East Business Portal found at https://sebp.due-north.com/ ** PREVIEW NOTICE, please check Find a Tender for full details. **

Reference

  • ocds-h6vhtk-052bee
  • FTS 060333-2025

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