Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin VCSE Mental Health Transformation (Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin)

This tender exhibits significant quality concerns, primarily due to a retrospective contract start date, undisclosed estimated value, and a lack of specified evaluation criteria, severely impacting legal compliance, fairness, and data consistency.

The tender's contract start date (2022) significantly predates the submission deadline (2026), which is a severe legal compliance issue, suggesting a retrospective award or highly irregular process. The missing reveal date prevents assessment of reasonable submission periods, and the classified value impacts mandatory disclosure.

The tender description is extremely brief, and all detailed requirements (eligibility, technical, financial) are generic placeholders referring to external documents. Crucially, evaluation criteria are explicitly missing, which severely hinders clarity for potential bidders.

While basic information like title, reference, organization, and duration are present, critical details such as the estimated value, full requirements, and evaluation criteria are either missing or deferred to external portals, making the provided information incomplete.

Fairness is severely compromised by the retrospective contract start date, which suggests a pre-determined outcome or an unfair advantage. The undisclosed estimated value and the complete absence of evaluation criteria further undermine transparency and equal treatment among bidders.

Electronic submission via the EU-Supply portal is supported, which is practical. However, the classified value makes it difficult for bidders to assess the scope, and the highly confusing contract start date (2022) versus submission deadline (2026) creates significant practical ambiguity.

The most critical inconsistency is the contract start date (2022-11-09) being significantly in the past relative to the submission deadline (2026-11-08). This fundamental logical flaw severely impacts the tender's data integrity and credibility.

While the service itself (VCSE Mental Health Transformation) inherently addresses social aspects, the tender documentation does not explicitly include or evaluate broader green procurement, social criteria beyond the service description, or innovation focus.