Official UK procurement notice
Care and Support Services - Extra Care Housing
Authority: Westminster City Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionWestminster City Council (WCC) and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC) are preparing to commission a new joint contract for the provision of Care and Support Services across Extra Care Housing schemes. This notice aims to inform the market of the upcoming opportunity and invite providers to engage with us ahead of tender publication.
The Authorities commission Extra Care Housing services to support older residents and adults with care needs to live independently, safely and with dignity in their own self contained homes, whilst benefiting from 24/7 onsite support.
The service supports Adult Social Care priorities including:
- Independence & prevention
- Personalisation and resident choice
- Integration with health, housing and community partners
- Local delivery and community connection
The procurement will cover the following Extra Care Housing schemes:
Westminster City Council
- Leonora House – 26 units
Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
- James Hill House – 28 units
- Miranda House – 20 units
- Burgess Field – 28 units
Providers will be required to deliver:
Universal Core Service
Including:
- 24/7 onsite staffing
- Unplanned and emergency care response
- Medication management
- Social inclusion activities
- Risk assessments, care planning, and quality assurance
- Liaison with housing, families, health partners and community services
Personalised Care
All individual planned care hours based on eligible assessed needs, delivered flexibly around resident preferences and wellbeing outcomes.
Housing Collaboration
Care providers will work closely with landlords through SLAs and Licences to Occupy to ensure building-related responsibilities are clearly defined.
The service will likely be commissioned as a block contract, based on a fixed number of care hours across both general and dementia units.
CPV: Social work and related services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewal
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Westminster City Council buys Social work and related services (CPV 8530), and who usually turns up
Westminster City Council’s published record next to the market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Social work and related services (CPV 8530) →
How the contest usually goes
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How often small and medium firms win.
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Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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How often local firms win similar work.
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Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in Greater London.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
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Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards have an award date within 146 days of the bid deadline.
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How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.
Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.
Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
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How many bids did past lots attract?
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How many bids past lots received.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid33% / 22%
2–337% / 30%
4–626% / 32%
7+4% / 16%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
Each colour shows awards below, close to or above the published estimate, one lot at a time.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Below estimate26% / 42%
Within ±2%71% / 53%
Above estimate3% / 5%
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
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No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list
Lot #1CPV 8530Published estimate£22m
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How many bids this lot may attract.
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Each lot shows its own forecast based on its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative. The bar shows 37 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid22%
2–330%
4–632%
7+16%
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Where the award price may land.
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No comparable awards for this lot yet.
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Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
| Supplier | This buyer’s earlier contract | Lot | Award value | Why listed |
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| Chosen Care Group LimitedLive contract | Care and Support Services, Carlton Dene Extra Care Housingruns to Jun 2033 | — | £17m | Matched as the earlier contract |
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Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
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Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.
About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
- Two views, kept apart. The authority’s own track record and the wider market for the same kind of work sit side by side and are never mixed. Where the local picture is too thin, a figure widens to a broader market and says which one it used.
- Forecasts are labelled. The price forecast and its range, possible competitors and the earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards: not published facts, not win chances and not price advice. Official notices do not say who is bidding.
- Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.
What this replaces i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
80% title match.
A past supplier may not bid again.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
80% title match.
A past supplier may not bid again.
The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (80% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid
Care and Support Services, Carlton Dene Extra Care Housing — held by Chosen Care Group Limited; the published contract ends 14 Jun 2033.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- 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
- 25 Feb 2026, 09:19 GMT
- Last source update
- 25 Feb 2026, 09:19 GMT
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-016724- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-065ba3Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
25 Feb 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 4 dates- Planning notice published244 days ago25 Feb 2026, 09:19 GMT
- Market engagement229 days ago12 Mar 2026, 23:59 GMT
To support provider readiness, the Authorities will deliver a virtual Market Warming Event on 12th March 2026.
This session will:
- Outline the service model and expectations
- Explain the commercial approach
- Present the schemes
- Offer opportunities for Q&A with commissioners and procurement leads
The Market Engagement event will take place virtually on Teams at 11am to 12pm on Thursday 12th March 2026.
Providers wishing to join the market engagement event must register on Jaggaer and provide attendee details. A link to the meeting will then be e-mailed to providers wishing to attend.
If you have already registered on Jaggaer previously, you will be able to submit attendee information on this link - wcc.ukp.app.jaggaer.com/go/68837466019C94134D31 ↗
If you are new to Jaggaer, you will need to register on this link first -
- Tender notice expected141 days ago8 Jun 2026, 23:59 BST
- Today28 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 154 days1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published25 Feb 2026, 09:19 GMTUK2
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
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender