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Contract award: Devon County Council - Open Light Touch Framework for the Provision of Short Breaks for Disabled Children and Young People in Devon (GBP 20,000,000)

UK Find a Tender Service OCDS API Authoritative source Published 21st October 2026 United Kingdom

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Source-reported

Contract award notice published on UK Find a Tender by Devon County Council. Procurement: Open Light Touch Framework for the Provision of Short Breaks for Disabled Children and Young People in Devon. Description: Devon County Council (DCC) will be setting up an Open Light Touch Framework for the provision of Short Breaks for Disabled Children and Young People in Devon. This Framework will enable DCC to call-off and award individual packages and block contracts for placements to approved Framework Suppliers. The framework will comprise the following Lots: Lot 1: Targeted support and short breaks for childre Category: services. Value: GBP 20,000,000 (largest of 3 stated award/contract values). Supplier(s): AGILE WORKFORCE SERVICES LIMITED, APPLE TREE FARM SERVICES CIC, BRIGHT STEPS DEVON CIC, CDD HEALTHCARE STAFFING LTD, COMMUNITY EQUALITY DISABILITY ACTION and others.

Publication: UK Find a Tender Service OCDS API · Government/Regulator
Published: 21st October 2026
Original report: find-tender.service.gov.uk

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Category: Supply Chain & Logistics
Geography: United Kingdom
Organisations: None identified
Collected: 21st October 2026 · 11:36

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.

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Significance 1 · Low

Confidence 2 · Low

Initial Significance Low (17.0/100). 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

Possibly the same underlying story as Contract award: HAMPSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL - MANAGED PRINT SERVICES (GBP 3,000,000) — flagged automatically, never merged automatically.

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

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.