Official UK procurement notice
BHCC - EB - Care Homes within Brighton and Hove Round 5
Authority: Brighton and Hove City Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Council is seeking to award contracts within the boundaries of Brighton and Hove for the provision of Care Home beds on a spot purchase basis. Out of city care homes are contracted via an alternative route.
Bidders who pass the qualifying criteria will be awarded a contract. Individual placements will be made on a spot purchase basis throughout the life of the contract.
The Council guarantees no set volume of placements under this contract and reserves the right to contract for comparable provision through other means.
Individual placements will be made via a brokerage process, where individual outcomes and costs are agreed between the Council and the Supplier. Further details are provided in the Service Specification.
The Council reserves the right to reopen this tender process at a later date to award additional contracts for the same provision.
See full documents for details, starting with the instructions in Schedule 3. This is a re-run of the tender from June, July and September 2024 and February 2025. Previous bidders are not required to apply for this iteration.
CPV: Residential nursing care services · Social work services with accommodation
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1Published value£350,000,000
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
- Simple description: Quality only, pass/fail based on responses to questionnaires and conditions of participation
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Closed
- 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
- 22 Oct 2025, 14:49 BST
- Last source update
- 22 Oct 2025, 14:49 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 12 Jan 2026
- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-067535- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05d1bcFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 3 Dec 2025, 10:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 10 Nov 2025, 23:59 GMT
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
22 Oct 2025 → 1 Feb 2026 · 5 dates- Tender notice published371 days ago22 Oct 2025, 14:49 BST
- Clarification questions by352 days ago10 Nov 2025, 23:59 GMT
- Submission deadline329 days ago3 Dec 2025, 10:00 GMT
- Award decision expected by289 days ago12 Jan 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract starts270 days ago1 Feb 2026
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published22 Oct 2025, 14:49 BSTUK4
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender