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Leicestershire County Council

Residential Care for Leicestershire Residents

HealthcareCPV 85311000
Value£700.0m
Deadline1 Feb 2029
Published13 Dec 2024
RegionNationwide
Timeline
Published 13 Dec 2024923 days leftCloses 1 Feb 2029
Who to contact
Mr Louis Blake
Louis.Blake@leics.gov.uk

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

How to submit
Open the submissions portal

The submission route named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£700.0mtotal contract value
median £380k
this tender£0£756.0m

This is a large award for Health & Social Care — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 32,734 valued Health & Social Care tenders in our corpus.

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The brief

Leicestershire County Council manages the commissioning and contracting arrangements for individual packages of residential care for individual people, eligible for social care support, who are residents of Leicestershire.

This Provider List is for residential care for adults who have been assessed as eligible under the Care Act 2014 or under the NHS Continuing Health Care (CHC) Framework and who require a residential or nursing care home placement to meet their care needs in Leicestershire.

The service specification outlines the exact requirements of the Council.

Please note that this process will award Providers and this will include all eligible locations under each Provider.

Please note that this procurement falls under the Light Touch Regime.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

Leicestershire County Council manages the commissioning

Leicestershire County Council manages the commissioning and contracting arrangements for individual packages of residential care for individual people, eligible for social care support, who are residents of Leicestershire.

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

What it takes to bid this

4580 daysof bid-team effort
£30.8k£54.8kat typical UK bid-team rates

Typical UK bid effort for the £10m+ band — an estimate, not a quote.

Qualify & bid/no-bid ~10% · SQ / PQQ ~20% · Written response ~55% · Review & presentation ~15%

Typical for this category — confirm against the ITT pack

  • Hold at bidCQC registration / safeguarding policies
  • Plan for deliveryDBS-checked staff & vetting process
  • Plan for deliveryTUPE (incumbent staff often transfer)
  • Show at bidComparable references / case studies
  • Hold at bidFinancial standing (accounts, often ~2× contract value turnover)
  • Hold at bidInsurance cover (PL / EL, often PI)
  • Show at bidSocial value commitments

Hold at bid = pass/fail conditions of participation. Show at bid = scored in the quality response. Plan for delivery = contract obligations from day one.

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Source & provenance
OCID
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Stage
tender · Open
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
040245-2024
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