Plymouth Homecare Light Touch Framework
- Buyer
- Plymouth City Council
- Value
- £312,138,968
- Closes
- 20 November 2026
- Where
- Plymouth, the South West
- Type
- Sets up a framework (suppliers apply to join)
In plain English
Plymouth City Council is setting up a framework, a pre-approved list of care providers, for home care for adults aged 18 and over who have been assessed as needing support in their own homes. Providers on the list will deliver personal care, medication support, meals and help to regain independence, with work called off as individual needs arise across the city. The estimated value is £312 million, so this is a very large framework, though it is designed to include multiple providers.
What the buyer wants
• Deliver CQC-regulated personal care to assessed adults in their own homes across Plymouth, including washing, dressing, toileting, meals, and medication prompting or administration. • Provide a person-centred, enabling service that supports reablement, responds to changes in need or risk, and escalates concerns appropriately. • Show you have the staff capacity, vetted and trained workforce, local operational arrangements, and business continuity plans to cover the agreed Plymouth geographic area.
Likely requirements
Our reading of the notice. Always check the tender documents.
Without current CQC registration covering personal care in Plymouth, or without the local staffing and 24/7 operational capacity to cover the geographic scope, a provider would almost certainly be excluded at the first stage.
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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