--- title: "Southampton City Council - Residential & Nursing Care Home Strategy - Preliminary Market Engagement" ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-05a168" canonical_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-h6vhtk-05a168" markdown_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-05a168.md" json_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-05a168.json" source: "Find A Tender Service" current_stage: "Planning" buyer: "SOUTHAMPTON CITY COUNCIL" published: "2025-09-24" --- # Southampton City Council - Residential & Nursing Care Home Strategy - Preliminary Market Engagement Buyer: SOUTHAMPTON CITY COUNCIL Current stage: Planning OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-05a168 [View canonical contract page](https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-h6vhtk-05a168) [Download OCDS JSON](https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-05a168.json) ## Summary Southampton City Council is initiating a preliminary market engagement process as part of the planning stages for its Residential & Nursing Care Home Strategy. The procurement process is currently in the planning stage and aims to address the future needs of residential and nursing home residents in Southampton over the next five years. The engagement will conclude with a questionnaire due on 28th November 2025. The Council is seeking input from providers of residential and nursing care homes to develop a comprehensive strategy. This initiative falls under the services category, specifically welfare services for the elderly and disabled, with the engagement taking place in Southampton, United Kingdom. This preliminary market engagement offers significant growth opportunities for businesses specialising in residential and nursing care services. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) can leverage this process to contribute valuable insights and potentially shape future contracting opportunities that emerge from the Council's strategic planning. Companies in the welfare services sector, particularly those offering innovative care and partnership experiences, are well-suited to participate and competitively position themselves for any subsequent contracts that may arise. Engaging early in this preliminary stage could establish beneficial relationships with the Council and enhance business prospects for the years to come. ## Notice The Southampton City Council Living and Ageing Well Commissioning team will be developing a Care Home Strategy in early 2026 to consider the needs of the city's residential and nursing home residents over the next five years. The Care Home Strategy will help shape the Council's future commissioning decisions and will be developed in partnership and in consultation with service users, care home providers and other relevant stakeholders. At this stage, the development of the Council's Care Home Strategy does not infer that any procurement procedure will necessarily follow. However, for the purposes of transparency a preliminary market engagement notice is being published concerning the preliminary market engagement that the Council intends to undertake this autumn 2025 in developing its Care Home Strategy - given this may shape the Council's future commissioning intentions. For further details as to how residential and nursing care home providers can participate in this preliminary market engagement, residential care home and nursing care home providers can register on and access the Council's e-procurement portal - Proactis- at: https://supplierlive.proactisp2p.com/ then clicking on the "Opportunities" tile to search for the pre-market engagement project (reference: REQ/1000418). ### Planning Information The preliminary market engagement is for providers of residential care homes and nursing care homes. The preliminary market engagement is to address the following areas of interest to the Council: 1. Challenges that care home providers may be currently facing in relation to supporting residents' care needs. 2. The gaps providers identify in the care home market relating to meeting service user needs. 3. Providers' views as to how the care home market needs to develop within the next 5 years to meet residents' needs. 4. Ideas providers might have for improved partnership working between care homes and the Council to lead to better outcomes for service users placed in residential/nursing care. 5. Providers' views as to how non-care related needs are met within their care home settings (such as relating to sexuality, religion, culture, family, community, gender etc). 6. Providers' views as to how the care home market might look in 5 years' time, and what the perceived gaps are in staff training and knowledge to meet service users' care and non-care related needs. For further details as to how residential and nursing care home providers can participate in this preliminary market engagement, residential care home and nursing care home providers can register on and access the Council's e-procurement portal - Proactis- at: https://supplierlive.proactisp2p.com/ then clicking on the "Opportunities" tile to search for the pre-market engagement project (reference: REQ/1000418). A preliminary market engagement questionnaire will be available on this project for providers to download and respond to by the end of Friday 28th November 2025. Please note, the questions on the questionnaire will replicate those that are being asked of local providers attending two preliminary market engagement events that the Council will be holding in November 2025. Provider organisations should note that it is neither the intention nor purpose of the preliminary market engagement events or the preliminary market engagement questionnaire to confer any advantage to participants regarding any future procurement process. ## Key Details | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication source | Find A Tender Service | | Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/059398-2025 | | Notice type | UK2 - Preliminary Market Engagement Notice | | Procurement type | Standard | | 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 | 24 Sep 2025 | | Submission deadline | Not specified | | Future notice date | 28 Nov 2025 | | Award date | Not specified | | Contract period | 31 Mar 2027 - 31 Mar 2031 | | 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 | Planning | | Lots status | Planning | | Awards status | Not specified | | Contracts status | Not specified | ## Buyer | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Main buyer | SOUTHAMPTON CITY COUNCIL | | Locality | SOUTHAMPTON | | Post town | Southampton | | Postcode | SO14 7LY | | Country | England | | ITL 1 | TLJ South East (England) | | ITL 2 | TLJ3 Hampshire and Isle of Wight | | ITL 3 | TLJ32 Southampton | | Local authority | Southampton | | Electoral ward | Bargate | | Westminster constituency | Southampton Itchen | | Delivery location | TLJ32 Southampton | ## CPV Codes ### Divisions - 85 - Health and social work services ### Codes - 85311100 - Welfare services for the elderly - 85311200 - Welfare services for the handicapped ## Release History - 24 Sep 2025 at 14:57 - Planning - UK2 - Preliminary Market Engagement Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/059398-2025 ## Documents - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/059398-2025 24th September 2025 - Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender ## Notice URLs - https://supplierlive.proactisp2p.com/ - https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/54/contents ## Provenance This Markdown file is an alternate public rendering of the D3 Tenders contract record. 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