Awarded· 11 Dec 2025
Care at Home and Supported Living Services
Argyll and Bute Council · Highland, Scotland
Argyll and Bute Council has awarded Care at Home and Supported Living Services. It is a contract for other health and social care in Highland.
Source: Find a Tender, published 11 Dec 2025. Details are refreshed every 30 minutes.
Key dates
2025
Award notice published
Award Notice · 09:40
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About this tender
In brief
Argyll and Bute Council has awarded Care at Home and Supported Living Services. It is a contract for other health and social care in Highland. It was awarded on 11 December 2025.
It is run as an open procedure. Find a Tender published it on 11 December 2025. The notice number is 081766-2025. The OCDS ID is ocds-h6vhtk-05f356.
Summary of the contracting process
The procurement process for the "Care at Home and Supported Living Services" contract, initiated by Argyll and Bute Council, has concluded at the award stage. This procurement, categorised under Social Work Services (CPV code 85310000), focused on providing services in various locations throughout Argyll and Bute, including the postcodes UKM63 and UKM81.
The process adhered to an open procedure under legal directive 32014L0024, and the council used an open procurement method. Initially announced with the reference SC Ref:818213, the procurement involved key dates around December 2025, when interested parties were to be contacted post-deadline for prequalification.
However, the awards for both lots related to Care at Home Services to Older People and Supported Living Service for Adults with Learning Disabilities were marked as unsuccessful. Such enterprises can leverage their expertise to contribute towards improving social inclusion, health outcomes, and quality of life for service users, positioning themselves as key partners in future service provision within the region.
About this tender
Care at Home Services to Older People and Supported Living Services to Adults living with Learning Disability.
Lots (2)
- 01
Care at Home Services to Older People
The purpose of the Care at Home service is to support people and where appropriate, support their carers to have a good quality of life in their own homes. The service covers both long term care needs and short term interventions which may include personal care and social/emotional support.
In line with re-ablement/enablement practices, the service aims to support people to sustain, recover and/or manage their health, skills and abilities to lead independent and fulfilling lives. The service also provides support to those approaching the end of their lives in their own homes, where this is their choice.
Additional information: Economic operators may be excluded from contracting with the Council if they are in any of the situations referred to in Regulation 58 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015. Information on this will be collected during prequalification.
- 02
Supported Living Service for Adult with Learning Disability
The models of support being deployed reflect the national policy of promoting independence and responsibility, enabling people to feel safe, improving health, wellbeing and social inclusion, improving skills and confidence.
This will be achieved through supporting adults with a Learning Disability to have a say, listening, respecting and responding to them in a reliable and positive way, by helping them develop life skills and by providing opportunities to access a range of activities that promote this.
Supported Living services not only include care and support at home, personal care and housing support services but include as key features; improving community involvement, access to education, training and paid employment opportunities.
The Provider must demonstrate that individuals spend a significant part of their time with people who do not have a Learning Disability or are paid carers i.e. access to services in the wider community, the same as anyone else would do, either with or without support, thus enabling individuals to lead a full life.
Additional information: Economic operators may be excluded from contracting with the Council if they are in any of the situations referred to in Regulation 58 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015. Information on this will be collected during prequalification.
Key facts
Contract
- Service
- Other health and social care
- Procurement type
- Standard
- Category
- Services
- Contract period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Lots
- 2
Procedure
- Notice type
- Award Notice
- Procurement method
- Open
- Procedure
- Open procedure
- Current stage
- Award
- Stages so far
- Award
- Published on
- Find a Tender Service
- Buyer's portal
- Public Contracts Scotland
Not stated in the notice: awardee scale.
Values
Not stated in the notice: tender value, lots value, awards value, contracts value.
Status
- Tender
- Complete
- Awards
- Unsuccessful
Not stated in the notice: lots, contracts.
References
- Find a Tender notice
- 081766-2025
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-05f356
- CPV code
- 85300000 - Social work and related services; 85310000 - Social work services
- CPV division
- 85 - Health and social work services
Location
- Local authority
- Highland
- Town
- Paisley
- Postcode
- PA31 8RT
- Electoral ward
- Inverness South
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire
- Delivery area
- Lochaber, Skye and Lochalsh, Arran and Cumbrae, and Argyll and Bute, TLM81 East Dunbartonshire, West Dunbartonshire, and Helensburgh and Lomond
- Region
- Scotland
- Sub-region
- Highlands and Islands
- Area
- Highlands and Islands
- Country
- Scotland
Buyer
Contracting authority
- Organisation
- Argyll and Bute Council
- Category
- Services
- Phone
- +44 1463717123, +44 1546604145
- Address
- Lochgilphead, PA31 8RT · Scotland · Scotland
Not stated in the notice: contact.
Documents and links
- Legislation.gov.uklegislation.gov.uk/ssi/2015/446/contents/made
- Public Contracts Scotland portal, to register and bidapi.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/v1/Notice
- Ted.europa.euted.europa.eu/udl
- Publiccontractsscotland.gov.ukpubliccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx
- Publiccontractsscotland.gov.ukpubliccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx
- Latest noticefind-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/081766-2025
- OCDS record ocds-h6vhtk-05f356 (JSON)find-tender.service.gov.uk/api/1.0/ocdsReleasePackages/ocds-h…
Questions about Care at Home and Supported Living Services
Who won the Care at Home and Supported Living Services contract?
The award notice does not name the supplier. The full record is in the official notice linked on this page.
Who is the buyer for Care at Home and Supported Living Services?
Argyll and Bute Council, based in Highland, Scotland.
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