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Care Support Services for Children with a Disability - CS26605A Standard Support

Hampshire County Council

This public procurement record has 14 releases in its history.

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27 Jul 2026 at 15:46

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Summary of the contracting process

Hampshire County Council is commissioning specialist care support services for children and young people with disabilities. The service supports children with severe learning or physical disabilities, autistic spectrum conditions, behaviour that challenges, and complex physical or mental health needs. It forms part of the Council’s Children’s Services continuum and provides Tier 4 support following social care assessment and identification of an eligible need. Care is delivered as part of a personalised package linked to outcomes in an agreed Care Plan, rather than as conventional domiciliary care alone. The delivery area covers Hampshire, including the county’s central, northern and southern areas. The procurement category is health and social work services (CPV 85000000).

The procurement is complete and was awarded through a competitive selective procedure under a framework. It has one completed lot. Fourteen suppliers were each awarded a separate Standard Support call-off: Whispers Care Solutions, Global Healthcare Solutions, JJR Care, Request Services, Appletree Support, Third Hand Healthcare, Redjacket Specialist Care, P&M Homecare trading as Bluebird Care North Hampshire & West Berkshire, Relief Care Agency, The Rose Road Association, Acerta24, Newcross Healthcare Solutions, Kope-Medics and Belrose trading as Bluebird Care Winchester, Eastleigh & Romsey. Each award is £250,000 in GBP. Awards were made on 15 July 2026. Each contract runs from 1 September 2026 to 30 August 2030, with two possible two-year extensions, each valued at £10,750,000 ex VAT. Signature was scheduled for 17 August 2026.

This award demonstrates sustained demand from Hampshire County Council for specialist, outcome-focused support for disabled children and young people. Suppliers well placed for comparable work will understand complex learning, physical, behavioural, autistic-spectrum and mental-health needs, and will be able to work within social care assessments, Disabled Children’s Team requirements and individual Care Plans. The service favours personalised approaches that develop staff skills and improve the experience of service users, rather than relying solely on standard domiciliary-care models. The awarded supplier group includes both SMEs and larger organisations, showing that credible providers can operate at different organisational scales. Relevant strengths include reliable care delivery across Hampshire, appropriately skilled staff and the ability to support children with multiple or high needs.

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Notice Title

Care Support Services for Children with a Disability - CS26605A Standard Support

Notice Description

Hampshire County Council Children's Services commissions care support for children and young people with disabilities. The children and young people requiring care support services will include those with severe disabilities such as learning disabilities, physical disabilities, autistic spectrum conditions, behaviour that challenges and complex physical or mental health needs. The Services are part of a holistic support package for the child / young person that meets identified outcomes as part of a Care Plan as agreed by the Council's County Allocation Panel. This Service is part of Hampshire County Council's Children's Services Department's continuum of services which support children and young people with disabilities. Care support is a Tier 4 specialist service, which can be offered to a family following a social care assessment where the Disabled Children's Team criteria has been met and/or an unmet social care need has been identified. This Service aims to facilitate the development of the market to deliver services in new and more personalised ways rather than the conventional delivery of domiciliary care which in turn will enhance the skills of staff, potentially offering greater job satisfaction, in delivering the Service and improving the experience of the Service User. This ITT relates to call off procedures for Care Support Services for Children with a Disability listed below. Suppliers will be advised that if they have enrolled onto the framework they will need to attach to the one of the following Call Offs and complete the call off stage documentation: The four call offs and the maximum contract value for the total spend against the four are; CS26605A - Standard Support - PS6,000,000 CS26605B - Enhanced Support - PS10,000,000 CS26605C - Complex Support - Behavioural Needs PS14,500,000 CS26605D - Complex Support - Health Needs PS10,000,000 Suppliers only need to apply for the call offs that they are qualified to and wish to deliver. If a child has multiple needs, placements will be made against the call off with the highest need as set out in the table in Appendix 2 of the specification. Suppliers should pay careful attention to the documents in this ITT as some are required for all call offs and some are specific to each opportunity. All documents should be clearly marked. Suppliers who successfully apply for multiple call offs will receive a separate contract for each call off. The opportunities will be open for new entrants that meet the criteria across the life of the contract. However, the Council reserves the right to temporarily pause one or more call offs for new applications at any point. If a supplier applies and fails on three separate occasions the Council may apply a 6 month period before the supplier can apply again. The Council will evaluate at least once every two months, but reserves the right to evaluate more frequently initially or in busy periods.

Notice Details

Publication & Lifecycle

Open Contracting ID
ocds-h6vhtk-06d411
Publication Source
Find A Tender Service
Latest Notice
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/070883-2026
Current Stage
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All Stages
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Procurement Classification

Notice Type
UK6 - Contract Award Notice
Procurement Type
Standard
Procurement Category
Services
Procurement Method
Selective
Procurement Method Details
Award under framework
Tender Suitability
Not specified
Awardee Scale
Large, SME

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

CPV Divisions

85 - Health and social work services

CPV Codes

85000000 - Health and social work services

Notice Value(s)

Tender Value
Not specified
Lots Value
Not specified
Awards Value
£250,000 £100K-£500K
Contracts Value
Not specified

Notice Dates

Publication Date
27 Jul 20262 months ago
Submission Deadline
Not specified
Future Notice Date
Not specified
Award Date
15 Jul 20262 months ago
Contract Period
1 Sep 2026 - 30 Aug 2030 3-4 years
Recurrence
Not specified

Notice Status

Tender Status
Complete
Lots Status
Complete
Awards Status
Active
Contracts Status
Not Specified

Buyer & Supplier

Contracting Authority (Buyer)

Main Buyer
Hampshire County Council
Contact Name
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Contact Email
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Contact Phone
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Buyer Location

Locality
WINCHESTER
Postcode
SO23 8UJ
Postcode Area
Southampton
Country
England
Major Region (ITL 1)
TLJ South East (England)
Basic Region (ITL 2)
TLJ3 Hampshire and Isle of Wight
Small Region (ITL 3)
TLJ36 Central Hampshire
Delivery Location
Not specified
Local Authority
Winchester
Electoral Ward
St Michael
Westminster Constituency
Winchester

Supplier Information

Number of Suppliers
14
Supplier Names

Whispers Care Solutions Limited

Global Healthcare Solutions Limited

JJR Care Ltd

Request Services Limited

Appletree Support Limited

Third Hand Healthcare Ltd

Redjacket Specialist Care Ltd

P&M Homecare Limited

Relief Care Agency Ltd

The Rose Road Association

Acerta24 Limited

Newcross Healthcare Solutions Limited

Kope-Medics Ltd

Belrose Limited

Further Information

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