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title: "Residential & Nursing Care Homes Framework"
ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-052415"
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source: "Find A Tender Service"
current_stage: "Planning"
buyer: "SEFTON METROPOLITAN BOROUGH COUNCIL"
published: "2025-05-30"
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# Residential & Nursing Care Homes Framework

Buyer: SEFTON METROPOLITAN BOROUGH COUNCIL  
Current stage: Planning  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-052415

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## Summary

Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council is in the planning stage of the Residential & Nursing Care Homes Framework, focusing on health and social work services for the region of Bootle, United Kingdom. The initiative aims to enhance the Council's collaboration with care homes through engaging workshops and consultations, as exemplified by the upcoming Residential & Nursing Care Homes Consultation Event, scheduled for 18th June 2025. This engagement is part of Sefton Council's strategy to ensure a consistent and quality approach to health and social care commissioning, highlighting the council's role as a buyer. The tender process is expected to commence with contractual arrangements starting on 1st February 2026 and spanning until 31st January 2030 with a potential extension possible up to January 2034.

This tender provides substantial growth opportunities for businesses operating in the care and social work sectors, especially those capable of offering residential and nursing services. Organisations experienced in providing person-centred care and commitment to workforce development will find this framework beneficial. Small and medium-sized enterprises with a focus on innovative care solutions and an interest in contributing to the integrated health and social care agenda in Sefton are particularly well-suited to compete in this procurement process. The collaboration framework aims to better reflect Sefton demand and improve care quality, thus opening doors for providers to expand their services and strengthen partnerships within the community.

## Notice

Sefton Adult Social Care can better shape the market and meet their duties to protect the most vulnerable. New contractual and service specification arrangements are implemented. A system is established which supports continuation of the integration agenda. There is a consistent approach to commissioning residential and nursing placements across Health and Social Care in Sefton, ensuring a single voice from statutory leadership and Commissioners. There is the ability to implement arrangements based in the principles of person-centred care and an enabling approach to service delivery, including moving beyond the commissioning of traditional services. There is a system which can be used for specific commissioning arrangements, like block-booking of beds during Winter pressure periods. The Council and Providers can work together to be in a better position to meet changing need and provide the care support needed in the future, and reflect this in the framework arrangements, such as with regard to being clear on Sefton demand, such as that identified in Joint Strategic Needs Assessments and wider Health & Social Care system demand profiling. The framework will support the continuous drive to improve quality in care homes and to further support care homes to develop the workforce.

### Planning Information

Residential & Nursing Care Homes Consultation Event 
Wednesday 18th June 2025 9am-12:30pm 
Assembly Hall, Bootle Town Hall, L20 7AE
 Event will utilise facilitated workshop activities, looking at elements of the proposed Care Home Specification, Framework and Key Performance Indicators for:
o Future ways of working between Sefton Partnership, Sefton Council and Residential & Nursing Care Homes.
o What works well presently; what lessons we can learn from to work together better.
o How we can continue to grow and develop the Partnership between Care Homes, Sefton Partnership and Sefton Council. 
 Event will be held in-person only for the purpose of the workshop activities
 Attendees must book/ reserve a space via the CHEST; any attendee who has not reserved a space may be turned away. This is due to space constraints of the venue only being able to hold a maximum of 90 people.
https://procontract.due-north.com/CreateRFx/CreateRFx?stepId=e4fedebd-a23c-f011-8136-005056b64545
 Spaces on the event will be awarded on a first come, first served basis and we may need to limit the number of attendees from any one Care Home or organisation, to ensure as many different Care Homes can be represented as possible.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/028647-2025 |
| Notice type | UK2 - Preliminary Market Engagement Notice |
| Procurement type | Framework |
| Procurement category | Services |
| Procurement method | Not Specified |
| Procurement method details | Not specified |
| Tender suitability | SME |
| Awardee scale | Not specified |
| All stages | Planning |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 30 May 2025 |
| Submission deadline | Not specified |
| Future notice date | 15 Aug 2025 |
| Award date | Not specified |
| Contract period | 1 Feb 2026 - 31 Jan 2030 |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | Not specified |
| 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 | SEFTON METROPOLITAN BOROUGH COUNCIL |
| Locality | BOOTLE |
| Post town | Liverpool |
| Postcode | L20 7AE |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLD North West (England) |
| ITL 2 | TLD7 Merseyside |
| ITL 3 | TLD73 Sefton |
| Local authority | Sefton |
| Electoral ward | Linacre |
| Westminster constituency | Bootle |
| Delivery location | TLD73 Sefton |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 85 - Health and social work services

### Codes

- 85311000 - Social work services with accommodation

## Release History

- 30 May 2025 at 08:34 - Planning - UK2 - Preliminary Market Engagement Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/028647-2025
- 23 May 2025 at 14:54 - Planning - UK1 - Pipeline Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/026822-2025

## Documents

- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/028647-2025
  30th May 2025 - Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/026822-2025
  23rd May 2025 - Pipeline notice on Find a Tender

## Notice URLs

- https://procontract.due-north.com/CreateRFx/CreateRFx?stepId=e4fedebd-a23c-f011-8136-005056b64545
- https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/54/contents

## Provenance

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