Official UK procurement notice
Supported Housing & Floating Support for Homeless Households
Authority: Cornwall Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionCornwall Council is responsible for commissioning supported accommodation and floating support provision across Cornwall to support homeless households, people at risk of homelessness and rough sleepers.
The current Empowering and Independence services contract is coming to an end in 31st March 2026. The Council will be procuring an Approved Provider Agreement (APA) for Supported Accommodation for Homeless Households and county wide floating support, to commence April 2026.
The draft specification attached is broken down into 2 Lots:
- LOT 1 – Supported Accommodation
(support in accommodation provided by the provider)
- LOT 2 – Countywide floating Support
(Peripatetic support in situ)
CPV: Health and social work services · Social work and related services · Social work services with accommodation · Social work services without accommodation
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedProcedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Past planning notice
- 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
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 14 Mar 2025, 14:16 GMT
- Last source update
- 14 Mar 2025, 14:16 GMT
- Authority reference
DN767614- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-009468- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-04ed60Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
14 Mar 2025 → 1 Apr 2026 · 3 dates- Planning notice published14 Mar 2025, 14:16 GMT
- Market engagement15 Apr 2025, 00:59 BST
Cornwall Council is conducting a soft market assessment to gain feedback on a proposed specification and KPI's for a new contract, intending to follow the expiry of the pre-existing Empowering Independence contracts, also to understand the potential level of interest across this market sector.
this SMT will run from 14/03/2025 - 14/04/2025 inclusive
- Contract starts212 days ago1 Apr 2026
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published14 Mar 2025, 14:16 GMTUK2
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- 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
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender