Northamptonshire Children's Trust Provision of Personal Care and Support Services for Children and Young People with Disabilities.

Official notice

Authority: Northamptonshire Children's Trust (Public body)

Open framework scheme5 lotsServicesOpen procedureAbove thresholdLight touch regimeSME suitableVCSE suitable

Sectors: Health & Social Care (85) Delivery: East Midlands (UKF24)

Framework ceiling (notional)£16,800,000envelope for 5 lots · framework ceiling, not attributable revenue · 1 value update

Submissions closed 10 Dec 2025awarded 25 Mar 2026

Awarded to 3BN CARE LTD +7 more5 awards

Framework period 4 yrsends 31 Mar 2030 · starts 1 Apr 2026

What is being bought5 lots · detail below

Published requirement description

Northamptonshire Children's Trust Framework Agreement for the provision of Personal Care and Support Services for children and young people with Disabilities for a period of 4 years.

The Contract has a maximum annual budget of £3,500,000 (exclusive of VAT) for the delivery of the requirement as set out in the Specification. This should be based upon the base 4-year contract, with the core service as detailed in the tender documentation.

Services will be categorised by the following Lots that are described further in the specification:

Lot 1 - Support Hours in North Northamptonshire - Urban Areas (Corby, Kettering, Rushden and Wellingborough)
Lot 2 - Support Hours in North Northamptonshire - Rural Areas (East Northamptonshire)
Lot 3 - Support Hours in West Northamptonshire - Urban Areas (Northampton)
Lot 4 - Support Hours in West Northamptonshire - Rural Areas (Daventry and South Northamptonshire)
Lot 5 - Accommodation in Overnight Settings

Personal Care and Support Services should be person centred, aiming to maintain a child or young person's quality of life, enabling them to remain living with their family and achieve their specific outcomes. The Service is not about dependency, but about helping children and young people to do things for themselves as far as they are able and encouraging them and their family and other networks to build on their strength, independence and capacity.

The authority expects to re-tender this requirement around 1 Oct 2029, 23:59 BST.

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
Bids received: 62 bids on the busiest of 5 lots · 68 suppliers appointed
Framework period: 4 yrs from 1 Apr 2026
Scheme runs until: 31 Mar 2030

Published description of the framework

Providers who met the selection and award criteria have been accepted onto the Framework Agreement and have the opportunity to be selected for individual referrals/call-offs.

Payment Rate for each Contract are set as Fixed unit prices and Fixed Hourly Rates as specified in the Service Specification and Framework Agreement.

Lots and requirements (5)Procurement structure

5 lots · all with a published value · same evaluation weights on every lot

Every one of these 5 lots carries the same published figure, £14,000,000: it is the framework's maximum for the whole notice, not each lot's own budget, and no share per lot is published. The cards below say ceiling above rather than repeat it.

Lot #1Support Hours in North Northamptonshire - Urban Areas (Corby, Kettering, Rushden and Wellingborough)Awarded 4 yrsSMEVCSEceiling above

The source published no individual description for this lot.

Contract period: 1 Apr 2026 – 31 Mar 2030 (4 yrs)