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Southampton City Council - Residential & Nursing Care Home Strategy - Preliminary Market Engagement

Buyer: Southampton City Council →

BuyerSouthampton City Council
Statusplanning
DeadlineNot published
ValueValue not published
Published24 Sept 2025

What is being bought

The Southampton City Council Living and Ageing Well Commissioning team will be developing a Care Home Strategy in early 2026 to consider the needs of the city's residential and nursing home residents over the next five years. The Care Home Strategy will help shape the Council's future commissioning decisions and will be developed in partnership and in consultation with service users, care home providers and other relevant stakeholders. At this stage, the development of the Council's Care Home Strategy does not infer that any procurement procedure will necessarily follow. However, for the purposes of transparency a preliminary market engagement notice is being published concerning the preliminary market engagement that the Council intends to undertake this autumn 2025 in developing its Care Home Strategy - given this may shape the Council's future commissioning intentions. For further details as to how residential and nursing care home providers can participate in this preliminary market engagement, residential care home and nursing care home providers can register on and access the Council's e-procurement portal - Proactis- at: https://supplierlive.proactisp2p.com/ then clicking on the "Opportunities" tile to search for the pre-market engagement project (reference: REQ/1000418).

Delivery location

UKJ32, GB

Categories

Welfare services for the elderly 85311100Welfare services for disabled people 85311200

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statusplanning
Contract periodFrom 1 Apr 2027 to 31 Mar 2031
SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Welfare services for the elderly, Welfare services for disabled peopleNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 85. The category anchor is Welfare services for the elderly (85311100); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison setProceduresReported bids per procedureNamed award suppliersPrice evidence
Market: CPV division 8518,4951 median · 30.5 average (8,768 of 18,495 with a bid count)2 average (9,740 of 18,495 with named award suppliers)10 comparable price pairs
Same buyer8Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Delivery region: UKJ32261 median · 2.4 average (15 of 26 with a bid count)2.2 average (15 of 26 with named award suppliers)Not published

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Price-outcome signal

Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementNot published
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimeNot published
Covered byNot published
Submission policyNot published
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetValue not published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents1
Planning milestones1
MilestoneTypeDueStatus
The preliminary market engagement is for providers of residential care homes and nursing care homes. The preliminary market engagement is to address the following areas of interest to the Council: 1. Challenges that care home providers may be currently facing in relation to supporting residents' care needs. 2. The gaps providers identify in the care home market relating to meeting service user needs. 3. Providers' views as to how the care home market needs to develop within the next 5 years to meet residents' needs. 4. Ideas providers might have for improved partnership working between care homes and the Council to lead to better outcomes for service users placed in residential/nursing care. 5. Providers' views as to how non-care related needs are met within their care home settings (such as relating to sexuality, religion, culture, family, community, gender etc). 6. Providers' views as to how the care home market might look in 5 years' time, and what the perceived gaps are in staff training and knowledge to meet service users' care and non-care related needs. For further details as to how residential and nursing care home providers can participate in this preliminary market engagement, residential care home and nursing care home providers can register on and access the Council's e-procurement portal - Proactis- at: https://supplierlive.proactisp2p.com/ then clicking on the "Opportunities" tile to search for the pre-market engagement project (reference: REQ/1000418). A preliminary market engagement questionnaire will be available on this project for providers to download and respond to by the end of Friday 28th November 2025. Please note, the questions on the questionnaire will replicate those that are being asked of local providers attending two preliminary market engagement events that the Council will be holding in November 2025. Provider organisations should note that it is neither the intention nor purpose of the preliminary market engagement events or the preliminary market engagement questionnaire to confer any advantage to participants regarding any future procurement process.engagement28 Nov 2025scheduled

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Documents & submission route

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-05a168
Latest release ID059398-2025
Latest release timestampWed Sep 24 2025 14:57:59 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLNot published
Tender statusplanning
Procurement methodNot published
Procurement method detailsNot published
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: endNot published
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadlineNot published
Award period: startNot published
Award period: endNot published
Submission method detailsNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender valueNot published
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source0
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release1

Notice history

DateEventReference
24 Sept 2025planning059398-2025

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

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Complete JSON history (1 releases)
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