Coming up· published 24 Jan 2025
North Northamptonshire Council - Residential and Nursing Care Homes Services Reopening (DPS)
North Northamptonshire Council · North Northamptonshire, East Midlands
North Northamptonshire Council is planning this contract. It is a contract for nursing care and nursing home in North Northamptonshire.
Source: Contracts Finder, published 24 Jan 2025. Details are refreshed every 30 minutes.
Key dates
2025
Pipeline notice published
Market Engagement Notice · 09:39
View notice2025
Tender notice expected
Date given in the buyer's earlier notice
About this tender
In brief
North Northamptonshire Council is planning this contract. It is a contract for nursing care and nursing home in North Northamptonshire. The buyer has published an early notice. It gives providers time to prepare before the tender opens.
The buyer marks it as suitable for SMEs and VCSEs. Contracts Finder published it on 24 January 2025. The OCDS ID is ocds-b5fd17-501f7f43-9404-42c8-80d7-fc2fe78b0366.
Summary of the contracting process
North Northamptonshire Council has commenced the planning stage of reopening the dynamic purchasing system (DPS) for Residential and Nursing Care Homes Services under the light touch regime as per the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. This procurement, targeting the health and social work services category, is aimed at providing residential and/or nursing care for individuals aged predominantly 65 years and over in the East Midlands region.
The council seeks to ensure provision of regulated accommodation, care, and support, with the engagement period ending on 17 February 2025. The reopening of the tender is scheduled for the week commencing 3 February 2025. This tender presents significant opportunities for business growth, especially for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and voluntary, community, and social enterprises (VCSEs) specialising in residential and nursing care services.
Engaging in this procurement process can help expand service offerings and establish long-term contracts with North Northamptonshire Council, potentially spanning up to five years, including the option to extend.
The notice in full
North Northamptonshire Council is reopening this tender for the provision of residential and/or nursing care for people aged predominantly 65 years and over. Individuals placed by the Council will be ordinarily resident within the North Northamptonshire and meet the admission criteria for people requiring residential, nursing or respite care.
The Service will be required to provide regulated accommodation, care, support and meaningful activity to those people for whom it is not appropriate, either in the short or longer term, to live in their own homes.
The Service will be delivered in a way that ensure Individuals are at the heart of service delivery by maximising their ability and opportunity to live as independently as possible through the provision of good quality care and compliance with regulatory care standards.
The Council proposes to enter into one (1) Contract for an initial period of 48months with the preferred Potential Supplier, with an option to extend for 12months, making 60 months in total. Please note: This contract started on 1st September 2022. Tender Reopening Date: Week commencing Monday 3rd February 2025.
The light touch regime (LTR) applies to the Services under this DPS, as per Public Contracts Regulations 2015.
Lots: no lot details came through with this notice. The official notice and the tender pack have the full breakdown.
Key facts
Contract
- Service
- Nursing Care
- Procurement type
- Standard
- Contract period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Suitable for
- Small and medium sized businesses (SMEs); Voluntary, community and social enterprises (VCSEs)
Not stated in the notice: category.
Procedure
- Notice type
- Market Engagement Notice
- Current stage
- Planning
- Stages so far
- Planning
- Published on
- Contracts Finder
Not stated in the notice: procurement method, awardee scale.
Values
Not stated in the notice: tender value, lots value, awards value, contracts value.
Status
- Tender
- Planning
Not stated in the notice: lots, awards, contracts.
References
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-b5fd17-501f7f43-9404-42c8-80d7-fc2fe78b0366
- CPV code
- 85000000 - Health and social work services
- CPV division
- 85 - Health and social work services
Location
- Local authority
- North Northamptonshire
- Town
- Northampton
- Postcode
- NN16 8TL
- Electoral ward
- Northall
- Constituency
- Kettering
- Delivery area
- East Midlands (England)
- Region
- East Midlands
- Sub-region
- North Northamptonshire
- Area
- Leicestershire, Rutland and Northamptonshire
- Country
- England
Buyer
Contracting authority
- Organisation
- North Northamptonshire Council
- Contact
- North Northamptonshire Procurement Team
- Address
- Kettering, NN16 8TL · East Midlands · England
Not stated in the notice: category, phone.
Documents and links
- Early engagement notice on Contracts Findercontractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/569a10c8-e159-4170-a932…
- Please visit the North Northamptonshire Council e-Procurement Portal…in-tendhost.co.uk/nnc/aspx/Home
- OCDS record ocds-b5fd17-501f7f43-9404-42c8-80d7-fc2fe78b0366 (JSON)find-tender.service.gov.uk/api/1.0/ocdsReleasePackages/ocds-b…
Questions about this tender
When will the North Northamptonshire Council - Residential and Nursing Care Homes Services… tender open?
North Northamptonshire Council has not yet given a date for the tender notice. An early notice is the time to answer any market engagement questions and gather the evidence a bid will need.
Who is the buyer for North Northamptonshire Council - Residential and Nursing Care Homes Services…?
North Northamptonshire Council, based in North Northamptonshire, East Midlands. The named contact is North Northamptonshire Procurement Team.
How do I bid for North Northamptonshire Council - Residential and Nursing Care Homes Services…?
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