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title: "Lancashire Carers Assessment and Support Service"
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current_stage: "Planning"
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# Lancashire Carers Assessment and Support Service

Buyer: LANCASHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL  
Current stage: Planning  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-0513e3

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## Summary

Lancashire County Council is currently in the planning stage of a tender for the Lancashire Carers Assessment and Support Service. This procurement focuses on health and social work services and aims to fulfil statutory obligations in supporting both adult and young carers across Lancashire, United Kingdom. The engagement exercise includes the dissemination of feedback through an online questionnaire, with submission deadlines set for 7th April 2026. The procurement method has been identified as a competitive flexible procedure, with the planned contract period commencing on 1st April 2027 and concluding on 31st March 2030. Organisations that meet the criteria for SMEs (Small and Medium-sized Enterprises) and VCSEs (Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprises) are encouraged to engage in this process to contribute to the service redesign and future tendering activities.

This tender presents considerable opportunities for businesses looking to expand into the health and social services sector, particularly those with expertise in carers' support services. It offers a significant contract value and the chance to be instrumental in shaping the county's approach to carers' services, ensuring alignment with the Carers Strategy. SMEs and VCSEs specialising in health and social work services are well-positioned to compete, thanks to favourable conditions that support smaller enterprises. Participation in the early market engagement can offer valuable insights into upcoming requirements, thus enabling businesses to develop tailored service offerings that meet the future needs of Lancashire County Council's carers' support initiatives.

## Notice

Lancashire Carers Assessment and Support Service: The service executes Lancashire County Councils Statutory obligations to support adult carers (18+) by playing a significant role in identifying carers, carrying out carers assessments and giving support to help them to understand how they manage their caring responsibilities whilst also maintaining their own wellbeing. The service offers a range of support including information, advice, emotional support, group networks and access to Carers Assessments. Young Carers: The service fulfils Lancashire County Councils Statutory obligations to support children and young people under the age of 18 to carry out their caring responsibilities whilst also promoting and protecting their wellbeing. It provides information, representation, advice, emotional support, group networks, dedicated one to one interventions and access to carers assessments.

### Planning Information

Introduction
Lancashire County Council is in the process of reviewing Carers services in Lancashire. We wish to engage with key stakeholders to gather information and share initial commissioning considerations via an online questionnaire. 
As part of the future redesign, we are seeking feedback through this early market engagement: 
· to inform and shape the future service offer 
· ensure it is aligned to our Carers Strategy 
· coordinate carers services across the county
The following services are being considered in this engagement: 
Lancashire Carers Assessment and Support Service - 
The service executes Lancashire County Councils Statutory obligations to support adult carers (18+) by playing a significant role in identifying carers, carrying out carers assessments and giving support to help them to understand how they manage their caring responsibilities whilst also maintaining their own wellbeing. The service offers a range of support including information, advice, emotional support, group networks and access to Carers Assessments. 
Young Carers -
The service fulfils Lancashire County Councils Statutory obligations to support children and young people under the age of 18 to carry out their caring responsibilities whilst also promoting and protecting their wellbeing. It provides information, representation, advice, emotional support, group networks, dedicated one to one interventions and access to carers assessments. 
This engagement questionnaire has been designed to be part of our market engagement activities and is intended to build upon our existing knowledge of the market in Lancashire and the wider UK. 
Throughout the engagement exercise, we hope to use the information and feedback we receive to develop our plans for the future of carers services in Lancashire and to help us deliver best-in-class services. We intend to carry out further market engagement, to focus on service specific feedback and allow opportunities for further insights to inform any future procurement. 
For the avoidance of doubt the proposals set out within the market engagement document are the potential options and are subject to change before the Invitation to Tender is published in the event that the service is procured via a competitive process
The Authority may publish the results of the Strongly Agree - Strongly Disagree questions, but will not publish the narrative submitted by respondents.
Please see the link to the questionnaire below:
https://forms.office.com/e/856ELuq8bW

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/026112-2026 |
| Notice type | UK2 - Preliminary Market Engagement Notice |
| Procurement type | Standard |
| Procurement category | Services |
| Procurement method | Not Specified |
| Procurement method details | Competitive flexible procedure |
| Tender suitability | SME, VCSE |
| Awardee scale | Not specified |
| All stages | Planning |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 23 Mar 2026 |
| Submission deadline | Not specified |
| Future notice date | 1 Oct 2025 |
| Award date | Not specified |
| Contract period | 31 Mar 2027 - 31 Mar 2030 |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | £12,000,000 |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | Not specified |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Planned |
| Lots status | Planned |
| Awards status | Not specified |
| Contracts status | Not specified |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | LANCASHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL |
| Additional buyers | SOCIAL VALUE PORTAL LTD |
| Locality | PRESTON |
| Post town | Preston |
| Postcode | PR1 0LD |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLI London |
| ITL 2 | TLI4 Inner London - East |
| ITL 3 | TLI45 Lambeth |
| Local authority | Lambeth |
| Electoral ward | Vauxhall |
| Westminster constituency | Vauxhall and Camberwell Green |
| Delivery location | TLD4 Lancashire |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 85 - Health and social work services

### Codes

- 85000000 - Health and social work services

## Release History

- 23 Mar 2026 at 10:24 - Planning - UK2 - Preliminary Market Engagement Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/026112-2026
- 15 May 2025 at 08:40 - Planning - UK1 - Pipeline Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/021556-2025

## Documents

- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/026112-2026
  23rd March 2026 - Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/021556-2025
  15th May 2025 - Pipeline notice on Find a Tender

## Notice URLs

- https://forms.office.com/e/856ELuq8bW
- https://www.lancashire.gov.uk/fusion-supplier-portal/
- https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/54/contents
- https://www.socialvalueportal.com/

## Provenance

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