Official UK procurement notice
Residential Care for Leicestershire Residents
Authority: Leicestershire County Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionLeicestershire County Council manages the commissioning and contracting arrangements for individual packages of residential care for individual people, eligible for social care support, who are residents of Leicestershire.
This Provider List is for residential care for adults who have been assessed as eligible under the Care Act 2014 or under the NHS Continuing Health Care (CHC) Framework and who require a residential or nursing care home placement to meet their care needs in Leicestershire. The service specification outlines the exact requirements of the Council. Please note that this process will award Providers and this will include all eligible locations under each Provider.
Please note that this procurement falls under the Light Touch Regime.
CPV: Social work services with accommodation
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedWhat 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).
- Turnover usually expected at this size: about £1,400,000,000 (twice the annual value).
Turnover is an indicative market norm (≈2× annual value), not a published condition.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How Leicestershire County Council buys Social work services (CPV 8531), and who usually turns up
Leicestershire County Council’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: Social work services (CPV 8531) →
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 East Midlands.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in East Midlands.
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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 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.
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 bid20% / 21%
2–340% / 24%
4–620% / 32%
7+20% / 24%
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 estimate0% / 21%
Within ±2%100% / 69%
Above estimate0% / 10%
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
Our matching links this notice to “Home Care for Leicestershire” of this authority, but none of the 13 panel members sit in a category matching this notice.
Lot #1CPV 8531Published estimate£700m
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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.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid12%
2–313%
4–640%
7+35%
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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.
Based on 16 comparable awards. Each lot reflects its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative.
A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.
Middle 50%£700m
Estimate£700m
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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| Cera Care Operations LimitedEarlier contract | Home Care for Leicestershireended Oct 2024 | Homecare for Leicestershire | — | Matched as the earlier contract |
| Seven Care Services LtdEarlier contract | Home Care for Leicestershireended Oct 2024 | Homecare for Leicestershire | — | Matched as the earlier contract |
| Profad Care Agency LimitedEarlier contract | Home Care for Leicestershireended Oct 2024 | Homecare for Leicestershire | — | Matched as the earlier contract |
| Integral care SolutionsEarlier contract | Home Care for Leicestershireended Oct 2024 | Homecare for Leicestershire | — | Matched as the earlier contract |
| Jewel Home Care LtdEarlier contract | Home Care for Leicestershireended Oct 2024 | Homecare for Leicestershire | — | 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.
| Supplier | Won in this category | Live contracts | Award vs estimate |
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| £155k7 awards in 36m · last 9 months ago | None on file | no comparable pairs | |
Hales Group LtdLarge | £75m22 awards in 36m · last 4 months ago | 13 live · £352m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | 5% below n=9 |
| £24m4 awards in 36m · last 8 months ago | 6 live · £190m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | at estimate n=5 | |
| 7 awards in 36m · last 2 months ago | None on file | no comparable pairs | |
| — | None on file | no comparable pairs |
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.
55% 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.
55% title match.
A past supplier may not bid again.
The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (55% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid
Home Care for Leicestershire — held by Care with Pride Ltd and Caremark (Charnwood) (+1 more); the published contract ends 31 Oct 2024.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Open for tender
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 13 Dec 2024, 12:21 GMT
- Last source update
- 13 Dec 2024, 12:21 GMT
- Award evaluation window
- 3 Jan 2025 – …
- Authority reference
DN752540- FTS notice number
2024/S 000-040245- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-04c7dfFind a Tender
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Submit via ProContract (Due North)- Requests to participate (first stage)
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- Tender submission deadline
- 1 Feb 2029, 12:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
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- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bids opened
- 3 Jan 2025, 12:00 GMT
Timeline
13 Dec 2024 → 1 Feb 2029 · 3 dates- Notice published13 Dec 2024, 12:21 GMT
- Bids opened3 Jan 2025, 12:00 GMT
- Today22 Oct 2026
- Submission deadline1 Feb 2029, 12:00 GMT
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
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- Construction and Technology Court (King's Bench Division)Review body
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice; the tender pack is on the portal.