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Southampton City Council - Residential & Nursing Care Home Strategy - Preliminary Market Engagement

Southampton City Council · Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender

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Opportunity overview

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: https://supplierlive.proactisp2p.com/ then clicking on the "Opportunities" tile to search for the pre-market engagement project (reference: REQ/1000418).

Classification

  • CPV85311100 — Welfare services for the elderly
  • CPV85311200 — Welfare services for disabled people

Lots

  • Lot 1Value not stated

Documents and notices

Published notice details

Additional information from the published procurement release. Fields appear only when supplied by the source; check the original notice and tender documents before acting.

Scope, procedure and submissions

Id
ocds-h6vhtk-05a168
Status
planning
Main Procurement Category
services

Legal basis

Id
2023/54
Scheme
UKPGA

Lots and requirements

Entry 1
Id
1
Status
planning

Suitability

Sme
Yes

Contract period

Ends
31 Mar 2031, 23:59
Starts
1 Apr 2027, 00:00

Items and delivery

Item 1
Id
1
Related Lot
1

Delivery locations

Entry 1
Region
UKJ32
Country
GB
Country Name
United Kingdom

Additional Classifications

Entry 1
Id
85311100
Scheme
CPV
Description
Welfare services for the elderly
Entry 2
Id
85311200
Scheme
CPV
Description
Welfare services for disabled people

Planning and budget

Documents

Entry 1
Id
059398-2025
Format
text/html
Notice Type
UK2
Description
Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
Document Type
marketEngagementNotice
Published
24 Sept 2025, 15:57

Milestones

Entry 1
Id
engagement
Type
engagement
Status
scheduled
Due
28 Nov 2025, 23:59
Description
The preliminary market engagement is for providers of residential care homes and nursing care homes. The preliminary market engagement is to address the following areas of interest to the Council: 1. Challenges that care home providers may be currently facing in relation to supporting residents' care needs. 2. The gaps providers identify in the care home market relating to meeting service user needs. 3. Providers' views as to how the care home market needs to develop within the next 5 years to meet residents' needs. 4. Ideas providers might have for improved partnership working between care homes and the Council to lead to better outcomes for service users placed in residential/nursing care. 5. Providers' views as to how non-care related needs are met within their care home settings (such as relating to sexuality, religion, culture, family, community, gender etc). 6. Providers' views as to how the care home market might look in 5 years' time, and what the perceived gaps are in staff training and knowledge to meet service users' care and non-care related needs. 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: https://supplierlive.proactisp2p.com/ then clicking on the "Opportunities" tile to search for the pre-market engagement project (reference: REQ/1000418). A preliminary market engagement questionnaire will be available on this project for providers to download and respond to by the end of Friday 28th November 2025. Please note, the questions on the questionnaire will replicate those that are being asked of local providers attending two preliminary market engagement events that the Council will be holding in November 2025. Provider organisations should note that it is neither the intention nor purpose of the preliminary market engagement events or the preliminary market engagement questionnaire to confer any advantage to participants regarding any future procurement process.

Buyer, suppliers and contacts

Organisation 1
Id
GB-PPON-PCGN-2413-RBTX
Name
Southampton City Council

Roles

buyer

Address

Region
UKJ32
Country
GB
Locality
Southampton
Postal Code
SO14 7LY
Country Name
United Kingdom
Street Address
Civic Centre, Civic Centre Road

Details

Classifications

Entry 1
Id
publicAuthoritySubCentralGovernment
Scheme
UK_CA_TYPE
Description
Public authority - sub-central government

Identifier

Id
PCGN-2413-RBTX
Scheme
GB-PPON

Contact

Recorded locations

  • Buyer location · Southampton · UKJ32 · SO14 7LY · United Kingdom
  • Delivery location · UKJ32 · United Kingdom

Notice and amendment history

1 published notice version reviewed by ProcuraAxis.

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  1. ocds-h6vhtk-05a168-2025-09-24T15:57:59+01:00Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender ·