Notice Information
Notice Title
Supported Housing & Floating Support for Homeless Households
Notice 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)
Planning Information
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: https://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
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-04ed6e
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/009494-2025
- Current Stage
- Planning
- All Stages
- Planning
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- UK2 - Preliminary Market Engagement Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Not Specified
- Procurement Method Details
- Not specified
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- Not specified
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
85 - Health and social work services
-
- CPV Codes
85000000 - Health and social work services
85300000 - Social work and related services
85311000 - Social work services with accommodation
85312000 - Social work services without accommodation
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £10,016,930 £10M-£100M
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- Not specified
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 14 Mar 202511 months ago
- Submission Deadline
- Not specified
- Future Notice Date
- 14 Apr 2025Expired
- Award Date
- Not specified
- Contract Period
- 1 Apr 2026 - 31 Mar 2033 Over 5 years
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Planning
- Lots Status
- Planning
- Awards Status
- Not Specified
- Contracts Status
- Not Specified
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- CORNWALL COUNCIL
- Contact Name
- Mr Andrew Trout
- Contact Email
- andrew.trout@cornwall.gov.uk
- Contact Phone
- +44 1872
Buyer Location
- Locality
- TRURO
- Postcode
- TR1 3AY
- Post Town
- Truro
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLK South West (England)
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLK3 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLK30 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly
- Delivery Location
- Not specified
-
- Local Authority
- Cornwall
- Electoral Ward
- Truro Boscawen & Redannick
- Westminster Constituency
- Truro and Falmouth
Further Information
Notice Documents
-
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/009494-2025
14th March 2025 - Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
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