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Contract award: Yorkshire Purchasing Organisation - Children's Residential Care Solution (1322) (GBP 900,000,000)

UK Find a Tender Service OCDS API Authoritative source Published 5th October 2026 United Kingdom

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What the source reported

Source-reported

Contract award notice published on UK Find a Tender by Yorkshire Purchasing Organisation. Procurement: Children's Residential Care Solution (1322). Description: YPO is creating a procurement solution to enable its customers to purchase children’s homes for children, focusing on securing whole homes rather than individual placements. There is strong evidence to support this type of strategic commissioning as it promotes improved outcomes for children, sufficiency and market shaping and improved value for money. The time is right to look at this differently Category: services. Value: GBP 900,000,000 (stated award/contract value). Supplier(s): Keys PCE Limited, T-Junction Children's Services, Frontline Health Professionals Ltd, GABLE HEALTHCARE SERVICES, Fosse Children Services and others.

Publication
UK Find a Tender Service OCDS API · Government/Regulator
Published
5th October 2026
Original report
find-tender.service.gov.uk

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What ProcIntel recorded

ProcIntel-derived
Category
Supply Chain & Logistics
Geography
United Kingdom
Organisations
None identified
Collected
5th October 2026 · 11:55

Initial assessment ProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.

A provisional, automatically computed reading of this individual Signal, before Event extraction or human review. Not a final rating.

Significance 1 · Low
Confidence 2 · Low

Initial Significance Low (15.0/100). Strongest contributor: Procurement Impact (6.0/30 points). Limiting factor: Impact-Scale Specificity (0.0/10 points). Initial Confidence Low (39/100, data sufficiency: Insufficient). Strongest contributor: Source Authority (40.0/40 points). Limiting factor: Specificity (0.0/20 points). Capped at 39 (Low) -- insufficient structured evidence to support a higher Confidence reading, regardless of source authority.

Strongest contributor
Procurement Impact
Limiting factor
Impact-Scale Specificity