Coming up· published 24 Sept 2025
Southampton City Council - Residential & Nursing Care Home Strategy - Preliminary Market Engagement
Southampton City Council · Southampton, South East
Southampton City Council is planning this contract. It is a contract for other health and social care in Southampton.
Source: Find a Tender, published 24 Sep 2025. Details are refreshed every 30 minutes.
Key dates
2025
Pipeline notice published
UK2 - Preliminary Market Engagement Notice · 14:57
View notice2025
Tender notice expected
Date given in the buyer's earlier notice
Next
2027
Contract starts
2031
Contract ends
4 years after it starts
About this tender
In brief
Southampton City Council is planning this contract. It is a contract for other health and social care in Southampton. The buyer has published an early notice. It gives providers time to prepare before the tender opens. The contract runs from 31 March 2027 to 31 March 2031. It lasts 4 years.
The buyer marks it as suitable for SMEs. Find a Tender published it on 24 September 2025. The notice number is 059398-2025. The OCDS ID is ocds-h6vhtk-05a168.
Summary of the contracting process
Southampton City Council is initiating a preliminary market engagement process as part of the planning stages for its Residential & Nursing Care Home Strategy. The procurement process is currently in the planning stage and aims to address the future needs of residential and nursing home residents in Southampton over the next five years. The engagement will conclude with a questionnaire due on 28th November 2025.
The Council is seeking input from providers of residential and nursing care homes to develop a comprehensive strategy. This initiative falls under the services category, specifically welfare services for the elderly and disabled, with the engagement taking place in Southampton, United Kingdom. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) can leverage this process to contribute valuable insights and potentially shape future contracting opportunities that emerge from the Council's strategic planning.
The notice in full
The Southampton City Council Living and Ageing Well Commissioning team will be developing a Care Home Strategy in early 2026 to consider the needs of the city's residential and nursing home residents over the next five years. The Care Home Strategy will help shape the Council's future commissioning decisions and will be developed in partnership and in consultation with service users, care home providers and other relevant stakeholders.
At this stage, the development of the Council's Care Home Strategy does not infer that any procurement procedure will necessarily follow. However, for the purposes of transparency a preliminary market engagement notice is being published concerning the preliminary market engagement that the Council intends to undertake this autumn 2025 in developing its Care Home Strategy - given this may shape the Council's future commissioning intentions.
For further details as to how residential and nursing care home providers can participate in this preliminary market engagement, residential care home and nursing care home providers can register on and access the Council's e-procurement portal - Proactis- at: supplierlive.proactisp2p.com then clicking on the "Opportunities" tile to search for the pre-market engagement project (reference: REQ/1000418).
Lots: no lot details came through with this notice. The official notice and the tender pack have the full breakdown.
Key facts
Contract
- Service
- Other
- Procurement type
- Standard
- Category
- Services
- Contract period
- 31 Mar 2027 to 31 Mar 2031 (4 years)
- Suitable for
- Small and medium sized businesses (SMEs)
Procedure
- Notice type
- UK2 - Preliminary Market Engagement Notice
- Current stage
- Planning
- Stages so far
- Planning
- Published on
- Find a Tender Service
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
- Lots
- Planning
Not stated in the notice: awards, contracts.
References
- Find a Tender notice
- 059398-2025
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-05a168
- CPV code
- 85311100 - Welfare services for the elderly; 85311200 - Welfare services for the handicapped
- CPV division
- 85 - Health and social work services
Location
- Local authority
- Southampton
- Town
- Southampton
- Postcode
- SO14 7LY
- Electoral ward
- Bargate
- Constituency
- Southampton Itchen
- Delivery area
- Southampton
- Region
- South East
- Sub-region
- Southampton
- Area
- Hampshire and Isle of Wight
- Country
- England
Buyer
Contracting authority
- Organisation
- Southampton City Council
- Category
- Services
- Address
- Southampton, SO14 7LY · South East · England
Not stated in the notice: contact, phone.
Documents and links
Questions about this tender
When will the Southampton City Council - Residential & Nursing Care Home Strategy… tender open?
Southampton City 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.
How long is the Southampton City Council - Residential & Nursing Care Home Strategy… contract?
The contract runs from 31 March 2027 to 31 March 2031 (4 years).
Who is the buyer for Southampton City Council - Residential & Nursing Care Home Strategy…?
Southampton City Council, based in Southampton, South East.
How do I bid for Southampton City Council - Residential & Nursing Care Home Strategy…?
Register on the buyer's portal named in the notice, download the tender pack and check every condition of participation before you start writing. The buyer has marked it as suitable for SMEs. Care Sync Experts writes and reviews care tender bids from £1,500 + VAT.
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What to do next
- Read the early notice in full.
- Answer any market engagement questions.
- Gather your evidence and case studies now.
- Check your policies are up to date.
- Watch for the tender notice.
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