Homecare and Domiciliary Services Framework
- Buyer
- Westmorland and Furness Council
- Value
- £206,500,000
- Closes
- 30 November 2026
- Where
- Kendal, the North West
- Type
- Sets up a framework (suppliers apply to join)
In plain English
Westmorland and Furness Council is setting up a five-year list of approved providers, called a framework, for home care and support services, starting April 2027. Care providers apply to join, and the council will then arrange home care for adults from the approved list, worth an estimated £206.5 million in total. Existing members must reapply, as places do not transfer automatically.
What the buyer wants
• Submit a new application to join the Homecare Framework and meet the requirements of this procurement process. • Deliver safe, responsive, person-centred domiciliary care that promotes independence, health, wellbeing and choice in people's own homes. • Work alongside individuals, carers, families, communities and health partners, making use of community resources and technology to reduce loneliness and delay the need for long-term care.
Requirements
What could rule a small business out (our reading of the notice, written with AI): The notice does not set out specific financial, insurance or certification thresholds, but it requires a comprehensive, high-quality application and sets out a five-year framework with limited opportunities to join later, so a small provider without the time and resources to prepare a full bid may find it difficult to compete.
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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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