Find a TenderPast planning noticePreliminary market engagement notice
Published 23 May 2025, 15:45 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Active Recovery Beds 2025

Official notice

Authority: Lincolnshire County Council (Local council)

ServicesAbove thresholdLight touch regimeSME suitableVCSE suitable
Planned pipeline value£4,949,902pipeline notice, not a live tender · 1 value update
Tender notice expected 24 Nov 2025from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 1 yrends 31 Mar 2027 · up to 31 Mar 2029 with extensions · starts 1 Apr 2026
Notice summaryFrom the published notice

An Active Recovery Bed (ARB) is an Adult Social Care led, goal-focused reablement service located in a residential home or residential home with nursing capacity within Lincolnshire. The ARB service supports a person’s transfer to a residential home to receive Occupational Therapy and carer led reablement that cannot be delivered in their own home.

What is being bought

Published requirement description

An Active Recovery Bed (ARB) is an Adult Social Care led, goal-focused reablement service located in a residential home or residential home with nursing capacity within Lincolnshire.

The ARB service supports a person’s transfer to a residential home to receive Occupational Therapy and carer led reablement that cannot be delivered in their own home. This is for a short period of time, not to exceed 28 calendar days. The level of service provided to each person during their ARB stay is based on a comprehensive and personalised care plan with input from the multi-disciplinary team (MDT) including the care provider, social care practitioners and health professionals.

The core principle of the service is to maximise Lincolnshire residents’ independence and enable a person to resume living in their own home with either no care provision services or a reduction in the care provision services they require, within 28 days.

CPV: Health and social work services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 1 yrSMEVCSE
Contract period: 1 Apr 2026 – 31 Mar 2027 (1 yr) · up to 31 Mar 2029 with extensions
Delivery: East MidlandsEligibility: SME eligibleVCSE eligible
Extensions: Extension options published

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Past planning notice
Procurement threshold
Above threshold (FTS publication)
Regulatory regime
Light touch regime
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
23 May 2025, 15:45 BST
Last source update
12 Nov 2025, 07:40 GMT
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-072992
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Health and social work services
Delivery area
East Midlands (UKF3)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0523ff Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

23 May 2025 → 1 Apr 2026 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published
    23 May 2025, 15:45 BST
  2. Latest notice published355 days ago
    12 Nov 2025, 07:40 GMT
  3. Tender notice expected343 days ago
    24 Nov 2025, 23:59 GMT
  4. Contract starts216 days ago
    1 Apr 2026, 00:00 BST

Notice history

3 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 23 May 2025
  1. Pipeline notice published
    23 May 2025, 15:45 BST
    UK1
  2. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    12 Nov 2025, 07:40 GMT
    UK2
  3. Published value published: £4,949,902
    12 Nov 2025, 07:40 GMT

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Pipeline notice
Awards (0)
No award published
Contracts (0)
No contract published
Bid statistics
No aggregate bid statistics published

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Lincolnshire County Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PGRB-3736-CHZN Orchard House, Lincoln, East Midlands, LN1 1BAContact name, email

Official documents & specifications (2)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure