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Published 14 Mar 2025, 15:28 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

Supported Housing & Floating Support for Homeless Households

Official notice

Authority: Cornwall Council (Local council)

Services
Sectors: Health & Social Care (85) Delivery: Delivery location not published
Planned pipeline value£10,016,930pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected Date not publishedfrom the planned procurement notice
Contract term 7 yrsends 1 Apr 2033 · up to 1 Apr 2036 with extensions · starts 1 Apr 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Cornwall Council is responsible for commissioning supported accommodation and floating support provision across Cornwall to support homeless households, people at risk of homelessness and rough sleepers.

The current Empowering and Independence services contract is coming to an end in 31st March 2026. The Council will be procuring an Approved Provider Agreement (APA) for Supported Accommodation for Homeless Households and county wide floating support, to commence April 2026.

The draft specification attached is broken down into 2 Lots:

  • LOT 1 – Supported Accommodation

(support in accommodation provided by the provider)

  • LOT 2 – Countywide floating Support

(Peripatetic support in situ)

CPV: Health and social work services · Social work and related services · Social work services with accommodation · Social work services without accommodation

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 7 yrs
Contract period: 1 Apr 2026 – 1 Apr 2033 (7 yrs) · up to 1 Apr 2036 with extensions
Extensions: Extension options published
85000000 Health and social work services85300000 Social work and related services85311000 Social work services with accommodation85312000 Social work services without accommodation

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
Unspecified in notice
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
14 Mar 2025, 15:28 GMT
Last source update
14 Mar 2025, 15:28 GMT
Authority reference
DN767614
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-009494
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Health and social work servicesSocial work and related servicesSocial work services with accommodationSocial work services without accommodation
Delivery area
Not published
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-04ed6e Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

14 Mar 2025 → 1 Apr 2026 · 3 dates
  1. Planning notice published
    14 Mar 2025, 15:28 GMT
  2. Market engagement
    15 Apr 2025, 00:59 BST

    Cornwall Council is conducting a soft market assessment to gain feedback on a proposed specification and KPI's for a new contract, intending to follow the expiry of the pre-existing Empowering Independence contracts, also to understand the potential level of interest across this market sector.

    Participation of this soft market assessment will not prejudice suppliers participating in any future procurement.

    If you are interested in this area of service provision and also helping with our assessment of the market, please Please find the documentation required using the following link:

    www.supplyingthesouthwest.org.uk ↗

    ref. DN767614 Supported Housing & Floating Support for Homeless Households

    this SMT will run from 14/03/2025 - 14/04/2025 inclusive

  3. Contract starts212 days ago
    1 Apr 2026

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    14 Mar 2025, 15:28 GMT
    UK2

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

Cornwall Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PYRH-9827-DWLP County Hall, Treyew Road, Truro, South West, TR1 3AYContact name, email, phone

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure