Official UK procurement notice
Home care for Leicestershire 2027
Authority: Leicestershire County Council (Local council)
Leicestershire County Council (the Authority) is committed to the delivery of high-quality Adult Social Care Services and Health Care Services within Home Care for residents of Leicestershire who are assessed as requiring Home Care. The Authority wishes to work in Providers are required to deliver services focusing on the health, safety, enablement, progression and wellbeing of people who require such services. They must enable people to gain, maintain or regain skills to help them live independently and recover from illness. Published lot titles: Lot 1. Home Care (maintenance); Lot 3. Home Care (Live in Care/24 Hour Care).
What is being bought2 lots · detail below
Published requirement descriptionLeicestershire County Council (the Authority) is committed to the delivery of high-quality Adult Social Care Services and Health Care Services within Home Care for residents of Leicestershire who are assessed as requiring Home Care. The Authority wishes to work in
'Partnership' with independent sector Home Care Providers ("Providers"), who can demonstrate and maintain quality standards in line with the Council's Service Specification
("Specification"), which has at its core the Care Quality Commission's Regulations and is in accordance with the Care Act 2014.
Providers are required to deliver services focusing on the health, safety, enablement, progression and wellbeing of people who require such services. They must enable people to gain, maintain or regain skills to help them live independently and recover from illness. The Service, wherever possible, supports people to prevent unnecessary admission to hospital and residential care. The service should also support people to be discharged from hospital or move out of long or short term, building based care.
- No preliminary market engagement: UK2: Preliminary market engagement notice - Procurement Act 2023 - view information about notice types Notice identifier: 2025/S 000-050085 Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-052016 (view related notices) Published 20 August 2025, 11:11am
CPV: Health and social work services
How this framework works
From the published notice- Type
- Closed framework · open framework scheme (admission reopens)
- Call-offs
- call-offs may be awarded directly or by further competition
- Framework period
- 7 yrs from 12 Oct 2027
- Scheme runs until
- 11 Oct 2034
Published description of the framework
A place on the Framework will be awarded to any provider who receives a pass for all the required elements.
This Framework has a "Call of Procedure" to award individual packages of care to eligible Providers.
Bidders are asked to state an hourly rate within the guide rates provided.
Lots and requirements (2)Procurement structure
2 lots · all with a published valueLot #1Home Care (maintenance)Published value£490,000,000
Providers will be awarded packages of care for Homecare maintenance via the Call of Procedure described within the tender documentation
Lot #2Home Care (Live in Care/24 Hour Care)Published value£1,000,000
Providers will be awarded packages of care for Homecare Live in Care / 24 Hour Care via the Call of Procedure described within the tender documentation
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
- “Home care for Leicestershire 2027” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract: call-offs may be direct or by further competition.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How Leicestershire County Council buys Health and social work services (CPV 85), and who usually turns up
Leicestershire County Council’s published record next to the market for the same work. Compared with other frameworks and DPS only. 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.
Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in East Midlands.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards have an award date within 36 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.
Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.
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 bid0% / 1%
2–39% / 11%
4–69% / 24%
7+82% / 64%
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.
On a framework or DPS, prices are agreed when work is called off.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Not comparable on a framework or DPS: the price is set later, on each call-off.
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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.
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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
Our matching links this notice to “Home Care for Leicestershire” of this authority, but none of the 3 panel members sit in a category matching this notice.
Lot #1Home Care (maintenance)CPV 85Published estimate£490m
This lot lists more than one class in CPV 85. The comparison uses that group.
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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 101 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid1%
2–311%
4–624%
7+64%
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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.
| Supplier | This buyer’s earlier contract | Lot | Award value | Why listed |
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| OASIS CARE AND TRAINING AGENCY (OCTA)Earlier contract | Home Care for Leicestershire 2026started Oct 2026 | Home Care (maintenance) and Home Care (Live In Care/24hr Care) | — | Matched as the earlier contract |
| Integrative Supported Living Care LtdEarlier contract | Home Care for Leicestershire 2026started Oct 2026 | Contract 1. Home Care (maintenance) and Home Care (Live In Care/24hr Care) | — | Matched as the earlier contract |
| MI LIFE CARE SERVICES LIMITEDEarlier contract | Home Care for Leicestershire 2026started Oct 2026 | Contract 1. Home Care (maintenance) and Home Care (Live In Care/24hr Care) | — | Matched as the earlier contract |
| CARITAS CARE SOLUTIONS LTDEarlier contract | Home Care for Leicestershire 2026started Oct 2026 | Home Care (maintenance) and Home Care (Live In Care/24hr Care) | — | Matched as the earlier contract |
| PRIVATE HOME CARE UK LIMITEDEarlier contract | Home Care for Leicestershire 2026started Oct 2026 | Home Care (maintenance) and Home Care (Live In Care/24hr Care) | — | Matched as the earlier contract |
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.
Lot #2Home Care (Live in Care/24 Hour Care)CPV 85Published estimate£1.0m
This lot lists more than one class in CPV 85. The comparison uses that group.
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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 101 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid1%
2–311%
4–624%
7+64%
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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.
| Supplier | This buyer’s earlier contract | Lot | Award value | Why listed |
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| OASIS CARE AND TRAINING AGENCY (OCTA)Earlier contract | Home Care for Leicestershire 2026started Oct 2026 | Home Care (maintenance) and Home Care (Live In Care/24hr Care) | — | Matched as the earlier contract |
| Integrative Supported Living Care LtdEarlier contract | Home Care for Leicestershire 2026started Oct 2026 | Contract 1. Home Care (maintenance) and Home Care (Live In Care/24hr Care) | — | Matched as the earlier contract |
| MI LIFE CARE SERVICES LIMITEDEarlier contract | Home Care for Leicestershire 2026started Oct 2026 | Contract 1. Home Care (maintenance) and Home Care (Live In Care/24hr Care) | — | Matched as the earlier contract |
| CARITAS CARE SOLUTIONS LTDEarlier contract | Home Care for Leicestershire 2026started Oct 2026 | Home Care (maintenance) and Home Care (Live In Care/24hr Care) | — | Matched as the earlier contract |
| PRIVATE HOME CARE UK LIMITEDEarlier contract | Home Care for Leicestershire 2026started Oct 2026 | Home Care (maintenance) and Home Care (Live In Care/24hr Care) | — | Matched as the earlier contract |
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.
What this replaces i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
89% title match.
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.
89% title match.
A past supplier may not bid again.
The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (89% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid
Home Care for Leicestershire 2026, winner not published; the published contract ends 11 Oct 2034.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Open admission
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Light touch regime
- Commercial structure
- Open framework scheme
- Who may use this agreement
- Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 2 Nov 2026, 11:25 GMT
- Last source update
- 2 Nov 2026, 11:25 GMT
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 20 Jul 2027
- Authority reference
DN776276- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-103640- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07955cFind a Tender
- Earlier procedure Home Care for Leicestershire 2026
How to participate & submission route
Official notice- Requests to participate (first stage)
- —
- Appointment period ends
- 9 Dec 2026, 16:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 20 Nov 2026, 16:00 GMT
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
2 Nov 2026 → 12 Oct 2027 · 5 dates- Tender notice published14h ago2 Nov 2026, 11:25 GMT
- Today3 Nov 2026
- Clarification questions byin 17 days20 Nov 2026, 16:00 GMT
- Admission / appointment period endsin 36 days · period end, not a bid countdown9 Dec 2026, 16:00 GMT
- Award decision expected byin 259 days20 Jul 2027, 23:59 BST
- Contract startsin 342 days12 Oct 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published2 Nov 2026, 11:25 GMTUK4
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Nothing awarded yet- 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
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender