RFP QuestBeta
Awarded · ResultStage · contract

SANDWELL METROPOLITAN BOROUGH COUNCIL

Cost of Care Exercise with Home Care and Care Home Providers

HealthcareCPV 85000000
Value£134k
Awarded14 May 2022
Published15 Aug 2022
RegionWest Midlands
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£134ktotal contract value
median £380k
this tender£0£16.5m

This sits in the lower-middle of the Health & Social Care band — a mid-scale opportunity. Based on 32,734 valued Health & Social Care tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The 2022 to 2023 funding is designed to ensure local authorities can prepare their markets for reform and move towards paying providers a fair cost of care, as appropriate to local circumstances.

The identified 'fair cost of care' will be what local authorities are required to move towards paying providers.

It is understood from the guidance that this means to both increase the payments to providers below this rate and bring down the value of payments to providers above the rate. 'the cost of care report is required to capture the lower quartile and upper quartile costs.

This reflects that there are a range of local costs.

The median figure will enable transparency and assurance that fee rates are moving towards the fair cost of care'

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

The 2022 to 2023 funding is designed

The 2022 to 2023 funding is designed to ensure local authorities can prepare their markets for reform and move towards paying providers a fair cost of care, as appropriate to local circumstances.

02

The identified 'fair cost of care'

The identified 'fair cost of care' will be what local authorities are required to move towards paying providers.

03

'the cost of care report is required

'the cost of care report is required to capture the lower quartile and upper quartile costs.

Derived from the notice text — always confirm against the original documents.

Buyer intelligence

Make the case to bid

Reveal who to approach at SANDWELL METROPOLITAN BOROUGH COUNCIL, and generate a go-to-market strategy from their news, accounts and people.

Source & provenance
OCID
b3edea4b-cfb0-40b6-b7e7-1e02db0c3e29
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
Contracts Finder
Buyer ref
ASC115
View the original notice on Contracts Finder

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source data © Crown copyright.

Market context

Who wins this kind of work

The suppliers and buyers around this opportunity — drawn from official award data. Drag to orbit; click a node to explore.

Top suppliers & buyers in Health & Social Care

Scroll to explore the market network

SANDWELL METROPOLITAN BOROUGH COUNCIL’s tender network

Assembling the network…

Also open now

Similar open tenders

BMC1002-2025 - Home Care 2025 - Approved Provider List - APL open framework

East Riding of Yorkshire Council

Closes 30 Mar 2027Healthcare
£17.0mValue

Approved Provider List (APL-1) - Care at Home (Domiciliary Care)

City of York Council

Closes 31 Mar 2031Healthcare
£522.9mValue