Official UK procurement notice
HAC6150 Homecare · UK public procurement notice
Authority: Tower Hamlets
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe primary objective of this project is to procure domiciliary (home care) services that meet the eligible needs of residents under the Care Act 2014. The procurement will enable residents to exercise greater choice and control over their care and support arrangements, helping them to achieve their desired outcomes and maintain their independence. The contract will also deliver wider community benefits by generating social value and providing opportunities for suppliers to work collaboratively with the Council. Benefits include achieving best value, creating employment opportunities for local residents, supporting the development and sustainability of the local care market, and contributing to the local economy. The proposed procurement approach is a competitive flexible procedure comprised of an SQ stage to shortlist participants, followed by an ITT stage, for a contract with an initial term of three years, with options for extension. The domiciliary care market is vibrant, competitive, and well-established, with a diverse range of providers operating locally and nationally
CPV: Health and social work services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewal
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Tower Hamlets buys Health and social work services (CPV 85), and who usually turns up
Tower Hamlets’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Health and social work services (CPV 85) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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How often small and medium firms win.
Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.
The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.
Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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How often local firms win similar work.
Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.
Here, local means registered in Greater London.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in Greater London. More of this buyer’s work stays local than in this market: 98% against 60%, n=43.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards were announced within 47 days of the bid deadline.
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How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.
Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.
The market share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
Direct awards or one recorded bid are common here. Check the route before spending time on a bid.
How many bids did past lots attract?
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How many bids past lots received.
Each colour is a bid-count range. Only competed lots with a published count are included.
Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid32% / 27%
2–326% / 33%
4–626% / 24%
7+16% / 17%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
Each colour shows awards below, close to or above the published estimate, one lot at a time.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Below estimate27% / 36%
Within ±2%60% / 56%
Above estimate13% / 8%
Assess each lot i
What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list
Lot #1Published estimate£300m
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How many bids this lot may attract.
The forecast uses similar past competitions. The bar shows either that forecast or past bid counts; the line below says which.
Each lot shows its own forecast based on its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative. The bar shows 344 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid27%
2–333%
4–624%
7+17%
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Where the award price may land.
The forecast uses similar awards and the buyer’s estimate. The band covers the middle half of likely prices.
No comparable awards for this lot yet.
A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.
Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
Who could compete for this lot? i
Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
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Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.
About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
- Two views, kept apart. The authority’s own track record and the wider market for the same kind of work sit side by side and are never mixed. Where the local picture is too thin, a figure widens to a broader market and says which one it used.
- Forecasts are labelled. The price forecast and its range, possible competitors and the earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards: not published facts, not win chances and not price advice. Official notices do not say who is bidding.
- Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 4 Sept 2026, 13:05 BST
- Last source update
- 4 Sept 2026, 13:05 BST
- Authority reference
HAC6150- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-083887- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06f23cFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
4 Sept 2026 → 18 Aug 2027 · 4 dates- Planning notice published48 days ago4 Sept 2026, 13:05 BST
- Market engagement37 days ago14 Sept 2026, 23:59 BST
The Council intends to hold a provider engagement event during which officers will outline the proposed model and facilitate discussion on key design principles for the future framework.
The event will take place on 17th September 2026 between 10:00 and 13:30 in the Grocer’s Wing of the Town Hall (160 Whitechapel Rd, London E1 1BJ).
Providers wishing to attend should register their interest free of charge via the Proactis Procurement Portal www.londontenders.org ↗ (using project reference: DN828255) and submit via the message function attendee/s contact details with name, position, email address by 17:00 14th September 2026. We will then issue invitations to the online event to those who have provided this information.
Following the market engagement event, the Council wishes to hold 1:1 sessions with a small number of providers to gather more in-depth feedback.These sessions will be held week beginning 21st September 2026 via Teams.
If you wish to be invited to partake in these sessions, please provide the following via the Proactis Procurement Portal www.londontenders.org ↗ (using project reference: DN828255) by 17:00 14th September 2026:
- Two case studies demonstrating your ability to deliver the required services.
- An indication of which Tier of service you wish to feedback on (Prime Area Provider, Secondary Provider, or Specialist Provider).
- Evidence of your ability to deliver the required number of hours for your chosen Tier.
- A two A4 page covering letter setting out how you will meet the requirements set out in 1.3.2.
Please refer to the market engagement brief for more information
- Tender notice expected19 days ago2 Oct 2026, 23:59 BST
- Today22 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 300 days18 Aug 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published4 Sept 2026, 13:05 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