Tender

Adults Home Care

  • Southwark Council

UK4: Tender notice - Procurement Act 2023 - view information about notice types

Notice identifier: 2025/S 000-055155

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-059707

Published 9 September 2025, 4:41pm



Scope

Reference

DN789564

Description

Adults Home Care service provision will be split across three (3) groups with a total of fifteen (15) Lots:

1. Group A (Lots 1-5): Adults' Home Care - Primary Provider (Core services);

2. Group B (Lots 6-12): Adults' Home Care - Secondary Provider (Core services); and;

3. Group C (Lots 13-15): Adults' Home Care - Specialist services.

The Council is therefore seeking to award fifteen (15) cost and volume contracts to successful bidders as part of this Procurement and it is anticipated that the contracts will be fully operational by 2 November 2026 (this may be subject to change) and will continue for a period of four (4) years from that date with an option to extend, at the Council's discretion, for up to four (4) years (two (2) years plus two (2) years) unless terminated in accordance with the Terms and Conditions of the Contract.

Transfer of existing care packages are within the scope of this Procurement.

Total value (estimated)

  • £232,100,000 excluding VAT
  • £232,100,000 including VAT

Above the relevant threshold

Contract dates (estimated)

  • 2 November 2026 to 1 November 2030
  • Possible extension to 1 November 2034
  • 8 years

Description of possible extension:

Term is four year with an option to extend further four years (4+2+2)

Main procurement category

Services

CPV classifications

  • 85000000 - Health and social work services

Contract locations

  • UKI44 - Lewisham and Southwark

Lot 1. Borough (Primary Provider)

Description

Geographical Area - North West (Primary Provider)

Lot value (estimated)

  • £27,800,000 excluding VAT
  • £27,800,000 including VAT

Same for all lots

CPV classifications, contract locations and contract dates are shown in the Scope section, because they are the same for all lots.


Lot 2. Bermondsey and Rotherhithe (Primary Provider)

Description

Geographical Area - North East (Primary Provider)

Lot value (estimated)

  • £27,800,000 excluding VAT
  • £27,800,000 including VAT

Same for all lots

CPV classifications, contract locations and contract dates are shown in the Scope section, because they are the same for all lots.


Lot 3. Peckham and Nunhead (Primary Provider)

Description

Geographical Area - Central East (Primary Provider)

Lot value (estimated)

  • £27,800,000 excluding VAT
  • £27,800,000 including VAT

Same for all lots

CPV classifications, contract locations and contract dates are shown in the Scope section, because they are the same for all lots.


Lot 4. Camberwell & Walworth (Primary Provider)

Description

Geographical Area - Central West (Primary Provider)

Lot value (estimated)

  • £27,800,000 excluding VAT
  • £27,800,000 including VAT

Same for all lots

CPV classifications, contract locations and contract dates are shown in the Scope section, because they are the same for all lots.


Lot 5. Dulwich (Primary Provider)

Description

Geographical Area - Southern (Primary Provider)

Lot value (estimated)

  • £22,300,000 excluding VAT
  • £22,300,000 including VAT

Same for all lots

CPV classifications, contract locations and contract dates are shown in the Scope section, because they are the same for all lots.


Lot 6. Borough (Secondary Provider)

Description

Geographical Area - North West (Secondary Provider)

Lot value (estimated)

  • £5,600,000 excluding VAT
  • £5,600,000 including VAT

Same for all lots

CPV classifications, contract locations and contract dates are shown in the Scope section, because they are the same for all lots.


Lot 7. Bermondsey and Rotherhithe (Secondary Provider)

Description

Geographical Area - North East (Secondary Provider)

Lot value (estimated)

  • £3,300,000 excluding VAT
  • £3,300,000 including VAT

Same for all lots

CPV classifications, contract locations and contract dates are shown in the Scope section, because they are the same for all lots.


Lot 8. Peckham and Nunhead (Secondary Provider A)

Description

Geographical Area - Central East (Secondary Provider A)

Lot value (estimated)

  • £21,700,000 excluding VAT
  • £21,700,000 including VAT

Same for all lots

CPV classifications, contract locations and contract dates are shown in the Scope section, because they are the same for all lots.


Lot 9. Peckham and Nunhead (Secondary Provider B)

Description

Geographical Area - Central East (Secondary Provider B)

Lot value (estimated)

  • £21,700,000 excluding VAT
  • £21,700,000 including VAT

Same for all lots

CPV classifications, contract locations and contract dates are shown in the Scope section, because they are the same for all lots.


Lot 10. Camberwell & Walworth (Secondary Provider A)

Description

Geographical Area - Central West (Secondary Provider A)

Lot value (estimated)

  • £16,700,000 excluding VAT
  • £16,700,000 including VAT

Same for all lots

CPV classifications, contract locations and contract dates are shown in the Scope section, because they are the same for all lots.


Lot 11. Camberwell & Walworth (Secondary Provider B)

Description

Geographical Area - Central West (Secondary Provider B)

Lot value (estimated)

  • £16,700,000 excluding VAT
  • £16,700,000 including VAT

Same for all lots

CPV classifications, contract locations and contract dates are shown in the Scope section, because they are the same for all lots.


Lot 12. Dulwich (Secondary Provider)

Description

Geographical Area - Southern (Secondary Provider)

Lot value (estimated)

  • £3,300,000 excluding VAT
  • £3,300,000 including VAT

Same for all lots

CPV classifications, contract locations and contract dates are shown in the Scope section, because they are the same for all lots.


Lot 13. Specialist (Provider A)

Description

Boroughwide - Specialist (Provider A)

Lot value (estimated)

  • £3,200,000 excluding VAT
  • £3,200,000 including VAT

Same for all lots

CPV classifications, contract locations and contract dates are shown in the Scope section, because they are the same for all lots.


Lot 14. Specialist (Provider B)

Description

Boroughwide - Specialist (Provider B)

Lot value (estimated)

  • £3,200,000 excluding VAT
  • £3,200,000 including VAT

Same for all lots

CPV classifications, contract locations and contract dates are shown in the Scope section, because they are the same for all lots.


Lot 15. Specialist (Provider C)

Description

Boroughwide - Specialist (Provider C)

Lot value (estimated)

  • £3,200,000 excluding VAT
  • £3,200,000 including VAT

Same for all lots

CPV classifications, contract locations and contract dates are shown in the Scope section, because they are the same for all lots.


Participation

Particular suitability

Lot 1. Borough (Primary Provider)

Lot 2. Bermondsey and Rotherhithe (Primary Provider)

Lot 3. Peckham and Nunhead (Primary Provider)

Lot 4. Camberwell & Walworth (Primary Provider)

Lot 5. Dulwich (Primary Provider)

Lot 6. Borough (Secondary Provider)

Lot 7. Bermondsey and Rotherhithe (Secondary Provider)

Lot 8. Peckham and Nunhead (Secondary Provider A)

Lot 9. Peckham and Nunhead (Secondary Provider B)

Lot 10. Camberwell & Walworth (Secondary Provider A)

Lot 11. Camberwell & Walworth (Secondary Provider B)

Lot 12. Dulwich (Secondary Provider)

Lot 13. Specialist (Provider A)

Lot 14. Specialist (Provider B)

Lot 15. Specialist (Provider C)

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

Submission

Enquiry deadline

1 October 2025, 11:59pm

Submission type

Requests to participate

Deadline for requests to participate

8 October 2025, 3:00pm

Submission address and any special instructions

Tender documents can be accessed from Tuesday 9th September 2025 using the link below and accessing the DN 789564 project reference for this procurement https://procontract.due-north.com

Tenders may be submitted electronically

Yes

Languages that may be used for submission

English

Award decision date (estimated)

4 August 2026


Award criteria

This table displays the award criteria of the lot
Name Description Type
Price

Price per Point of Quality as set out in the ITT documents

Price
Quality

Price per Point of Quality as set out in the ITT documents

Quality

Weighting description

Price per Point of Quality as set out in the ITT documents


Other information

Conflicts assessment prepared/revised

Yes


Procedure

Procedure type

Competitive flexible procedure

Special regime

Light touch

Competitive flexible procedure description

Submission of PSQ followed by Invitation to Tender and Presentation.

Justification for not publishing a preliminary market engagement notice

A Preliminary Market Engagement event has been held prior to tender publication however we had to break the notice linking due to system errors.

Original Pipeline related OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-051662 which was then broken to three projects:

1:DN789564 Adults Homecare

2:DN789559 Reablement (this notice)

3:DN789548 Children's Homecare


Documents

Associated tender documents

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


Contracting authority

Southwark Council

  • Public Procurement Organisation Number: PXTW-7647-VDLV

160 Tooley Street

London

SE1 2QH

United Kingdom

Contact name: CAS Procurement Team

Telephone: +442075254703

Email: casprocurement@southwark.gov.uk

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

Region: UKI44 - Lewisham and Southwark

Organisation type: Public authority - sub-central government