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title: "Richmond Day Services"
ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-06d316"
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current_stage: "Award"
buyer: "LONDON BOROUGH OF RICHMOND UPON THAMES"
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# Richmond Day Services

Buyer: LONDON BOROUGH OF RICHMOND UPON THAMES  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-06d316

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## Summary

The London Borough of Richmond Upon Thames has awarded a contract for "Richmond Day Services," focusing on providing day services for adults with care needs, particularly older individuals with complex needs and working-age adults with neurological conditions. This procurement, categorised under community and social services, is set in the United Kingdom, specifically in the UKI75 region. It follows a direct award methodology under light touch regimes, given its nature as a mutual co-investment community partnership. The process, marked by the absence of a tender due to the technical reasons outlined, concluded its award phase on 24th July 2026. The contract is planned to commence on 1st October 2026, running through to 30th September 2031, with an optional extension up to 2036, depending on demand and provider intentions.

This tender presents substantial opportunities for businesses skilled in delivering community-based and social services. With a contract value surpassing £17 million, it is especially suited for large-scale suppliers such as AGE UK Richmond Upon Thames and St Augustine's Community Care Trust, which have the established local engagement and collaboration necessary to meet the council's specific needs. The procurement process, favouring a direct award due to the absence of viable competitive alternatives, encourages businesses capable of co-investment and service co-development, fostering long-term growth through strategic community partnerships.

## Notice

Day services for adults with eligible care needs namely services supporting older people with complex needs and working age adults with neurological conditions.

### Procurement Information

The contract is being treated as subject to the Procurement Act 2023 to ensure transparency. However, the Council consider its nature is that of a mutual co-investment community partnership agreement for a common public benefit purpose, not a free-standing service contract. Therefore, the Council consider that it is exempt from the obligation to publish a tender and conduct a competitive tendering process on the basis that there is an absence of competition for technical reasons, including the following: embedded local community engagement and collaboration across services are essential requirements to meet assessed needs. Providers with those potential characteristics and capabilities were invited to extensive pre-commissioning engagement. As a result of that pre- commissioning engagement the Council's officers have judged that only the providers selected are able and willing to co-invest bringing mixed funding models, work in partnership and co-design, co-develop and deliver the required service transformation; and that for these Official precise requirements there are no reasonable alternatives. The Council has reached this conclusion on the basis that detailed, several stage pre procurement market engagement demonstrated a lack of other suppliers expressing interest to meet the Council's specific requirements, that the intention was to involve as many providers as were interested, able and willing and that the community partnership commissioning approach was adopted, because previous competitive procurements have not been successful in leading to contracts with satisfactory, able and willing suppliers, indicating there is no functional competitive market. The conclusion of the Council, from the pre-commissioning engagement process, is that direct award is appropriate and that adopting a competitive tender process, in the circumstances, would be artificial and involve disproportionate time and cost.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/070352-2026 |
| Notice type | UK6 - Contract Award Notice |
| Procurement type | Standard |
| Procurement category | Services |
| Procurement method | Direct |
| Procurement method details | Direct award |
| Tender suitability | SME, VCSE |
| Awardee scale | Large |
| All stages | Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 24 Jul 2026 |
| Submission deadline | Not specified |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | 23 Jul 2026 |
| Contract period | 30 Sep 2026 - 30 Sep 2031 |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | Not specified |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | £17,947,125 |
| Contracts value | Not specified |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Complete |
| Lots status | Complete |
| Awards status | Pending |
| Contracts status | Not specified |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | LONDON BOROUGH OF RICHMOND UPON THAMES |
| Locality | TWICKEHAM |
| Post town | Twickenham |
| Postcode | TW1 3BZ |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLI London |
| ITL 2 | TLI7 Outer London - West and North West |
| ITL 3 | TLI75 Hounslow and Richmond upon Thames |
| Local authority | Richmond upon Thames |
| Electoral ward | Twickenham Riverside |
| Westminster constituency | Twickenham |
| Delivery location | Not specified |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 2 |
| Supplier names | AGE UK RICHMOND UPON THAMES; ST AUGUSTINE'S COMMUNITY CARE TRUST |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 85 - Health and social work services

### Codes

- 85312000 - Social work services without accommodation
- 85322000 - Community action programme
- 85323000 - Community health services

## Release History

- 24 Jul 2026 at 13:32 - Award - UK6 - Contract Award Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/070352-2026
- 24 Jul 2026 at 11:02 - Award - UK5 - Transparency Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/070231-2026

## Documents

- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/070352-2026
  24th July 2026 - Contract award notice on Find a Tender
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/070231-2026
  24th July 2026 - Transparency notice on Find a Tender

## Notice URLs

- http://www.homelinkdaycare.co.uk
- http://www.richmond.gov.uk
- https://www.ageuk.org.uk/richmonduponthames/
- https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/54/contents

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