Official UK procurement notice
Bedford Borough Council Provision of Domiciliary Care within 4 Extra Care Schemes
Authority: Bedford Borough Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionOnsite domiciliary care within the following extra care schemes:
- Gordon Collings House (MK42)
55 Units
489 care hours per week including 7 residents requiring 2:1 calls day and night
Current contract arrangement: 24/7 coverage, amalgamated contract with St Bede’s
- St Bede’s (MK40)
104 units (51 units are affordable rent with the remainder privately-owned units)
212 care hours per week including 2 residents requiring 2:1 calls day and night
Current contract arrangement: 24/7 coverage, amalgamated contract with Gordon Collings House
- Wootton Vale (MK43)
55 units
445 care hours per week including 6 residents requiring 2:1 calls day and night
Current contract arrangement: 24/7 coverage, Individual contract
- Sir William Harpur House (MK41)
37 units
179 care hours per hour including 1 residents requiring 2:1 calls day
Current contract arrangement: 7am-10pm coverage, individual contract
This Notice is intended to notify the market of the upcoming tender opportunity. Bedford Borough Council would like to gauge the level of interest in the contract opportunity; the market engagement will also help to inform the service model/s and cost model/s specified under the tender.
Could you please indicate if you:
o May be interested in bidding for the tender
o are not interested in bidding for this tender
The market engagement to be held over the coming months; please indicate your preference:
o a virtual event on Teams
o a face-to-face event in Bedford Borough
o a survey via email
Please email Claire Churchley (Email: [email protected]) for enquiries and to register an interest.
CPV: Social work and related services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewal
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Past planning notice
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Light touch regime
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 29 May 2025, 14:27 BST
- Last source update
- 29 May 2025, 14:27 BST
- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-028476- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0528e1Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
29 May 2025 → 18 May 2026 · 4 dates- Planning notice published29 May 2025, 14:27 BST
- Market engagement1 Jul 2025, 00:59 BST
The market engagement to be held over the coming months through one of the following:
- a virtual event on Microsoft Teams
- a face-to-face event in Bedford Borough
- a survey via email
- Tender notice expected381 days ago16 Oct 2025, 00:59 BST
- Contract starts167 days ago18 May 2026
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published29 May 2025, 14:27 BSTUK2
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender