Planning

Care and Support at Home Market Testing

  • London Borough of Camden

UK2: Preliminary market engagement notice - Procurement Act 2023 - view information about notice types

Notice identifier: 2025/S 000-042838

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-056597

Published 24 July 2025, 3:00pm



Scope

Description

Camden Council Adults' Commissioning Team are in the process of recommissioning care and support at home services by 1 October 2026. By care and support at home, we mean services that are sometimes called homecare and reablement or short-term and ongoing care and support.

We have an ambitious transformation plan to better support our residents who draw on care and support at home. We believe language matters and so do the views and experiences of the people who draw on care and support. We'd like to invite prospective providers to a market engagement event where we will share our early ideas on the new model of care and support we're working towards in Camden, and enable you an opportunity to feedback to us. In addition to this, we would welcome input into our Equality Impact Assessment (EQIA). To do this we will be holding a separate meeting with interested partners, carers and residents to ensure our EQIA reflects wider market trends and the views of people experiencing care and support at home in Camden. Both events will be held online at the following dates and times:

Equality Impact Assessment Workshop - 5th August at 14:00 - 15:30

Market Engagement Event Workshop - 12th August at 10:00 - 11:30

We look forward to seeing you there. Please log onto (or register) the portal and send a message with your organisation name and the email addresses of the people/person who will be attending.

You can access the tender portal here

https://procontract.due-north.com/SupplierRegistration/Register

Please note a market testing questionnaire may also be published following the events above. If this is the case this notice will be updated with relevant instructions.

Total value (estimated)

  • £188,300,000 excluding VAT
  • £188,300,000 including VAT

Above the relevant threshold

Contract dates (estimated)

  • 1 October 2026 to 30 September 2030
  • Possible extension to 29 September 2033
  • 6 years, 11 months, 29 days

Main procurement category

Services

CPV classifications

  • 85312000 - Social work services without accommodation

Contract locations

  • UKI3 - Inner London - West

Engagement

Engagement deadline

29 August 2025

Engagement process description

Camden Council Adults' Commissioning Team are in the process of recommissioning care and support at home services by 1 October 2026. By care and support at home, we mean services that are sometimes called homecare and reablement or short-term and ongoing care and support.

We have an ambitious transformation plan to better support our residents who draw on care and support at home. We believe language matters and so do the views and experiences of the people who draw on care and support. We'd like to invite prospective providers to a market engagement event where we will share our early ideas on the new model of care and support we're working towards in Camden, and enable you an opportunity to feedback to us. In addition to this, we would welcome input into our Equality Impact Assessment (EQIA). To do this we will be holding a separate meeting with interested partners, carers and residents to ensure our EQIA reflects wider market trends and the views of people experiencing care and support at home in Camden. Both events will be held online at the following dates and times:

Equality Impact Assessment Workshop - 5th August at 14:00 - 15:30

Market Engagement Event Workshop - 12th August at 10:00 - 11:30

We look forward to seeing you there. Please sign up via the portal.

Please note the estimated contract value in this notice is based on current spend.


Participation

Particular suitability

  • Small and medium-sized enterprises (SME)
  • Voluntary, community and social enterprises (VCSE)

Submission

Publication date of tender notice (estimated)

5 January 2026


Procedure

Special regime

Light touch


Contracting authority

London Borough of Camden

  • Public Procurement Organisation Number: PZXL-5842-VBBG

London Borough of Camden

London

N1C 4AG

United Kingdom

Contact name: David Patrick Walsh

Email: david.walsh@camden.gov.uk

Website: http://www.camden.gov.uk

Region: UKI31 - Camden and City of London

Organisation type: Public authority - sub-central government