Planning

Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Contract - West London Floating Support Service

ROYAL BOROUGH OF KENSINGTON AND CHELSEA

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Planning

13 Aug 2025 at 09:05

Summary of the contracting process

The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea is currently in the planning stage for a procurement process aimed at supporting the West London Housing partnership. The tender titled "Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Contract - West London Floating Support Service" targets the health and social work services industry. Located in various regions across West London, this initiative focuses on delivering floating support services to individuals at risk of homelessness or rough sleeping. Providers must respond to the market engagement by 8th September 2025, with meetings scheduled throughout September and the tender notice anticipated for October or November 2025.

This forthcoming contract presents valuable business development opportunities for organisations specialising in health and social work services, particularly those with a proven track record of delivering housing-related support. Firms capable of offering flexible support to individuals in independent accommodation, assisting them in maintaining tenancies and enhancing daily living skills, will find this opportunity aligned with their expertise. The procurement method leverages a light-touch regime, suggesting possibilities for creative partnership and collaboration among stakeholders across the boroughs of Kensington and Chelsea, Hammersmith and Fulham, Brent, Ealing, Hillingdon, Hounslow, and Harrow.

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Notice Title

Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Contract - West London Floating Support Service

Notice Description

The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea on behalf of the West London Housing is seeking to engage with a suitable support provider to deliver a housing related floating support service for former rough sleepers, or single people at risk of homelessness or rough sleeping, to help them settle into independent accommodation. The service will help to deliver the partnerships' strategic aims of preventing homelessness by delivering support to people that enables independent living such as maintaining a tenancy and meeting tenancy obligations, improving daily living skills, improving health and wellbeing, finances and access to employment. Minimum Requirements The Supplier will be required to: *Support people with low to medium needs that are living in independent accommodation anywhere in the West London Housing Partnership Boroughs of RBKC, LBHF, Brent, Ealing, Hillingdon, Hounslow or Harrow, and who are either formerly homeless or rough sleeping, or at risk of becoming homeless or rough sleeping. *Have capacity to support a minimum of 65 people at any one time, for up to 6-months. *Deliver support to service users through a mixture of access channels including face to face in the community, in service user's homes, by telephone and online / video calls. *Adapt the available support flexibly to meet service demand and respond to individual need. *Evidence and demonstrate a strong track record of delivering similar services. *Ability to work in partnership with a wide range of stakeholders and link people into relevant support services to meet their needs and promote independent living. For more information about this opportunity, please visit the Delta eSourcing portal at: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-UK-London:-Health-and-social-work-services./X54N666N9P To respond to this opportunity, please click here: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/respond/X54N666N9P

Planning Information

Engagement process description: Providers are required to submit responses to the enclosed questionnaire by the Engagement Deadline (08/09/2025). If the Authority wishes to conduct meetings with suitable responders, these will be undertaken throughout September 2025. It is anticipated the Tender Notice will be published in October/November 2025.

Publication & Lifecycle

Open Contracting ID
ocds-h6vhtk-0586b9
Publication Source
Find A Tender Service
Latest Notice
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/048269-2025
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

98 - Other community, social and personal services


CPV Codes

85000000 - Health and social work services

98341000 - Accommodation services

Notice Value(s)

Tender Value
£651,000 £500K-£1M
Lots Value
Not specified
Awards Value
Not specified
Contracts Value
Not specified

Notice Dates

Publication Date
13 Aug 20256 months ago
Submission Deadline
Not specified
Future Notice Date
8 Sep 2025Expired
Award Date
Not specified
Contract Period
31 Mar 2026 - 31 Mar 2029 3-4 years
Recurrence
Not specified

Notice Status

Tender Status
Planning
Lots Status
Planning
Awards Status
Not Specified
Contracts Status
Not Specified

Contracting Authority (Buyer)

Main Buyer
ROYAL BOROUGH OF KENSINGTON AND CHELSEA
Contact Name
Not specified
Contact Email
procurement@rbkc.gov.uk
Contact Phone
Not specified

Buyer Location

Locality
LONDON
Postcode
W8 7NX
Post Town
West London
Country
England

Major Region (ITL 1)
TLI London
Basic Region (ITL 2)
TLI3 Inner London - West
Small Region (ITL 3)
TLI33 Kensington & Chelsea and Hammersmith & Fulham
Delivery Location
TLI33 Kensington & Chelsea and Hammersmith & Fulham, TLI72 Brent, TLI73 Ealing, TLI74 Harrow and Hillingdon, TLI75 Hounslow and Richmond upon Thames

Local Authority
Kensington and Chelsea
Electoral Ward
Campden
Westminster Constituency
Kensington and Bayswater

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