Community Life Choices 2027

Buyer
Leicestershire County Council
Value
£56,000,000
Closes
12 November 2026
Where
Leicester, the East Midlands
Type
Sets up a framework (suppliers apply to join)

In plain English

Leicestershire County Council is setting up a support framework for adults (18+) who need social care. They want providers to deliver two types of services: group activities and community support from a building base, plus a managed Personal Assistant service where the provider employs and manages PAs on behalf of people who need support.

What the buyer wants

• Deliver group support and one-to-one support activities (including travel training, work and volunteering support) both at a building base and in the community, with option to provide personal care • Recruit, employ, manage and provide individual Personal Assistants (PAs) to support people on a one-to-one basis, with a goal of helping people eventually manage their own PAs

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Likely requirements

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This is a social care framework requiring regulated provider status, employment law compliance, and safeguarding expertise: most general tradespeople will be structurally ineligible unless they operate as an established care provider or social enterprise with relevant registrations and staff.

How to bid

This is a framework: the buyer picks a set of suppliers now and awards work to them over several years. If you are not on it when it is awarded, you usually cannot win work from it until it is re-tendered, so this is the window to bid.

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