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# Strategic Market Support Service and Care Home Trusted Assessors

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/strategic-market-support-service-and-care-home-trusted-assessors-ocds-h6vhtk-035975). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Lincolnshire County Council: "Strategic Market Support Service and Care Home Trusted Assessors". Published status: unsuccessful. Published Value: Value not published. 2 published lots. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** UNSUCCESSFUL (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [Lincolnshire County Council](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/lincolnshire-county-council-ons-e10000019)
- **Published Value:** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 2
- **Procurement Method:** Not published
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Health services, Operation of an educational centre, Personnel-training services, Social work and related services
- **Delivery Location:** UKF3
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-035975`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/strategic-market-support-service-and-care-home-trusted-assessors-ocds-h6vhtk-035975#tl-md)

## Description
Lincolnshire County Council will be undertaking a procurement in line with Regulations
74-76 of the Public Contract Regulations 2015 (PCR) the light touch regime and pursuant to
Reg 76(7) of the PCRs.
The Strategic Market Support Service (SMSS) and Care Home Trusted Assessors (CHTA)
contracts main aim is to engage with care providers to support and develop the market and
to meet the demand for critical adult social care services.
The SMSS provides long term stability through the delivery of a workforce strategy and
supportive workforce training needs analysis, with the subsequent delivery of education and
training courses to develop Lincolnshire care services and their workforce whilst ensuring
the offer of support to the provider market is attractive and meaningful. This leads to a
longer term plan of sustainability to ensure that all Lincolnshire residents who receive their
care from independent and third sector providers in Lincolnshire will have those services
delivered by a skilled, competent and caring workforce.
The CHTA service aims to reduce the demand (and need) for care home managers (or care
home staff) to attend an acute hospital setting to review the suitability of someone ready for
discharge. The CHTA team complete discharge assessments in a time responsive manner
which supports the urgency of operational capacity and demand in the acute hospital setting
and promotes discharges seven days a week.

## Lots (2)
### Lot 1: Strategic Market Support Service
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** Not published
- **CPV codes:** 79632000, 80490000
- **Delivery regions:** UKF

- **Estimated Value:** £1,455,000
- **Description:** The Strategic Market Support Service (SMSS) contract will promote and deliver workforce
development and training to all care providers in Lincolnshire, specifically (i) Residential and
Nursing Home Services, (ii) Home Care and Community Support Servi...

### Lot 2: Care Home Trusted Assessors
- **Lot id:** `2`
- **Status:** Not published
- **CPV codes:** 85100000, 85300000
- **Delivery regions:** UKF

- **Estimated Value:** £850,000
- **Description:** The Care Home Trusted Assessors (CHTA) contract will establish a team of suitably qualified
and experienced staff to support operational hospital discharges pressures. Their role is to
conduct an operational assessment of all individuals identified a...

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (2)
- **Award:** Strategic Market Support Service and Care Home Trusted Assessors (unsuccessful)
  - Award id: `021609-2022-1`
  - Supplier(s): **Not published**

- **Award:** Care Home Trusted Assessors (unsuccessful)
  - Award id: `021609-2022-2`
  - Supplier(s): **Not published**

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F021609-2022)
- **Last Source Update:** 2022-08-05T15:04:33.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-29T03:06:19.170Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-035975