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# Application for a Care Home Contract

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/application-for-a-care-home-contract-ocds-h6vhtk-0297e5). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly ICB: "Application for a Care Home Contract". Published status: active. Published Value: £355,000,000. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 31 Mar 2024, 12:00 BST. Published submission portal: uk.eu-supply.com.

## Key Information
- **Status:** ACTIVE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly ICB](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/nhs-cornwall-and-isles-of-scilly-icb-GB-FTS-156688)
- **Published Value:** £355,000,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** 31 March 2024 at 12:00 BST
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Restricted procedure
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Health services, Residential health facilities services, Residential nursing care services, Social services
- **Delivery Location:** UKK30
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-0297e5`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/application-for-a-care-home-contract-ocds-h6vhtk-0297e5#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [uk.eu-supply.com](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fuk.eu-supply.com%2Flogin.asp%3FB%3DNHSSW)
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/application-for-a-care-home-contract-ocds-h6vhtk-0297e5#participate

## Description
NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Integrated Care Board and the Cornwall Council are pleased to invite care home providers to join the new joint contract for care home services from the 1st April 2021.
The aim of care home service is to ensure people have access to good quality care, support and accommodation that can enable them to meet their health and social care needs and outcomes twenty-four hours a day, 365 days a year.
Services that are within the scope include care homes with or without nursing for a person who is eligible in accordance with:
a)	The Care Act 2014;
b)	The eligibility criteria for NHS Funded Nursing Care or Continuing Healthcare;
c)	Other joint funding responsibilities of the Commissioners.
Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust may also commission care home services through the new joint contract.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** active
- **CPV codes:** 85100000, 85144000, 85144100, 85320000
- **Delivery regions:** UKK

- **Estimated Value:** £355,000,000
- **Description:** NHS Kernow and the Cornwall Council currently operate independent, but aligned, interim contracts for care home services in Cornwall which expire on the 31st March 2021.
The Contracting Authorities which include NHS Kernow, the Cornwall Council and C...
- **Contract Period:** 31/03/2021 to 31/03/2024
- **Renewal published:** yes

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F012663-2024)
- **Last Source Update:** 2024-04-18T12:04:07.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-28T07:07:56.364Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-0297e5