✓Tender information last checkedLast checked 9 Oct 2026, 13:21.
Opportunity overview
A lone worker is an employee that carries out their job duties without any additional workers watching over them or working with them. SCC requires the best and most cost effective solution that can monitor employees travelling to and from destinations, provide safeguard when workers meet with clients unknown to them or during a hazardous operation that they need to perform alone on a site.
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095611-2026Tender notice on Find a Tender ·
PROCURAAXIS ANALYSIS
ProcuraAxis Analysis
Our approved analysis of the opportunity appears below the official tender information.
ANALYSIS PREVIEW
Opportunity intelligence at a glance
Sheffield City Council is seeking a lone-worker safety solution for Adult Care & Wellbeing Services. The solution should help monitor employees travelling to and from destinations and safeguard staff meeting unknown clients or carrying out hazardous lone work.
Who this may suit
Potential fit for suppliers of lone-worker monitoring, staff safety, panic-alert, safeguarding or mobile workforce safety solutions. The opportunity is open for bidding; detailed technical, eligibility and contractual requirements are not provided in the supplied notice data.
Key points identified
Solution objectiveProvide the best and most cost-effective lone-worker safety solution.Evidence: Description: 'SCC requires the best and most cost effective solution'.
Employee travel monitoringMonitor employees travelling to and from destinations.Evidence: Description: 'monitor employees travelling to and from destinations'.
Safeguarding for client meetingsProvide safeguards when workers meet clients unknown to them.Evidence: Description: 'provide safeguard when workers meet with clients unknown to them'.
93% approved-analysis confidence6 supplier criteria identified2 risks or unknowns
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Sheffield City Council is seeking a lone-worker safety solution for Adult Care & Wellbeing Services. The solution should help monitor employees travelling to and from destinations and safeguard staff meeting unknown clients or carrying out hazardous lone work.
Who this may suit
Potential fit for suppliers of lone-worker monitoring, staff safety, panic-alert, safeguarding or mobile workforce safety solutions. The opportunity is open for bidding; detailed technical, eligibility and contractual requirements are not provided in the supplied notice data.
Key deliverables
Lone-worker safety solution
Monitoring for employees travelling to and from destinations
Safeguarding support for staff meeting unknown clients
Safety support for hazardous operations undertaken alone
SUPPLIER REQUIREMENTS
6 criteria identified
Solution objective
98% confidence
Provide the best and most cost-effective lone-worker safety solution.
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Description: 'SCC requires the best and most cost effective solution'.
Employee travel monitoring
99% confidence
Monitor employees travelling to and from destinations.
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Description: 'monitor employees travelling to and from destinations'.
Safeguarding for client meetings
99% confidence
Provide safeguards when workers meet clients unknown to them.
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Description: 'provide safeguard when workers meet with clients unknown to them'.
Hazardous lone-work safety
99% confidence
Provide safeguards during hazardous operations performed alone on site.
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Description: 'during a hazardous operation that they need to perform alone on a site'.
Technical specification
99% confidence
Unknown.
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No technical specification, platform, device, integration or service-level requirements are supplied.
Supplier eligibility requirements
99% confidence
Unknown.
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No selection, exclusion, financial standing, insurance, location or company-size requirements are supplied.
COMMERCIAL AND DELIVERY
Contract intelligence
Commercial
Estimated contract value
95% confidence
Up to £35,000.
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Process value_max: 35000 GBP; active lot value_amount: 35000 GBP.
Pricing and payment terms
99% confidence
Unknown.
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No pricing schedule, payment terms or contract terms are supplied.
Delivery
Delivery geography
95% confidence
United Kingdom.
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Delivery location is recorded as region 'UK', country 'United Kingdom'.
Buyer location
99% confidence
Sheffield, United Kingdom (S1 2HH).
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Buyer location: Sheffield, UKE32, S1 2HH, United Kingdom.
Contract dates and duration
99% confidence
Unknown.
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Contract start and end dates are null.
PROCEDURE
How to respond
Procedure
99% confidence
Below-threshold open competition.
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Procurement method details: 'Below threshold - open competition'.
Procurement method
99% confidence
Open.
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Procurement method: 'open'.
Opportunity status
99% confidence
Open / active tender.
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Display status: open; source status: active; notice type: Tender notice on Find a Tender.
Publication date
99% confidence
9 October 2026.
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Published at: 2026-10-09T12:03:59+01:00.
Submission deadline
99% confidence
29 October 2026, 17:00 UTC.
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Submission deadline: 2026-10-29T17:00:00+00:00.
RISKS AND UNKNOWNS
Points requiring attention
Limited procurement detail
99% confidence
The supplied notice data does not state technical specifications, evaluation criteria, contract duration, submission instructions, supplier eligibility criteria, or commercial terms.
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These fields and details are absent from the supplied opportunity data.
Value basis unclear
98% confidence
The £35,000 figure is supplied as both the process maximum value and lot value, but it is not stated whether this is total contract value, annual value, budget, or another basis.
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Process value_max: 35000 GBP; lot value_amount: 35000 GBP; no value basis or duration is supplied.
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