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title: "CareCubed - National Care Costing Tool"
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# CareCubed - National Care Costing Tool

Buyer: Stockton on Tees Borough Council  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-077a9d

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## Summary

Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council procured continued access to the CareCubed Adults Calculator, a software-based adult social care costing and fee negotiation tool. The council’s Strategic Procurement and Brokerage Team uses it to assess and review care placement costs, support transparent and consistent fee discussions with care providers, benchmark costs and identify savings opportunities in high-cost placements. The service includes a software subscription, user access, support, maintenance and ongoing updates for adult social care commissioning and brokerage. Delivery is in Stockton-on-Tees. The requirement is for information technology services (CPV 72222300), focused on care-cost assessment and market intelligence rather than general IT provision.

The procurement is complete and the council selected a supplier through a direct award under the Crown Commercial Service G-Cloud 14 framework, without publishing a separate competition notice. The award rationale says the supplier offered the most economically advantageous solution meeting the council’s requirements. The contract was signed on 10 September 2026, with a stated value of £51,000. The award is active, and one bid was recorded for the lot. The lot is marked cancelled in the tender information, while the award and contract are active; the published outcome identifies a selected supplier as “CareCubed - National Care Costing Tool”. Evaluation was on price according to the lot criteria, alongside the stated framework award basis.

For suppliers seeking to serve this buyer’s adult social care commissioning and brokerage work, this purchase demonstrates demand for a specialist costing platform that supports placement-cost assessment, consistent fee negotiation, benchmarking and value-for-money decisions. A credible competitor would need a mature, evidence-based tool designed for adult care costing, with practical user access, dependable support and maintenance, and ongoing product updates. The solution should help council teams review provider costs and understand market pricing, including in high-cost placements, while supporting constructive dealings with care providers. Experience delivering comparable software subscriptions to public-sector care teams and the capacity to maintain the service over a sustained contract would be relevant. The route used was a G-Cloud framework call-off, so suppliers would also need to be positioned to compete through that framework.

## Notice

The CareCubed Adults Calculator is a widely used, evidence-based tool that supports fair and transparent care fee assessments and negotiations. The Strategic Procurement and Brokerage Team uses it to review care costs, achieve value for money, identify savings opportunities in high-cost placements, and ensure a consistent approach to setting care fees while maintaining positive relationships with care providers.

### Lot Information

Lot 1

The procurement is for the continued provision of the CareCubed Adults Calculator, an evidence-based care costing and fee negotiation tool used by the Council's Strategic Procurement and Brokerage Team. The service supports the assessment and review of adult social care placement costs, facilitates transparent and consistent fee negotiations with care providers, and provides benchmarking and market intelligence to support value for money. The requirement comprises a software subscription, user access, system support, maintenance, and ongoing updates for use across adult social care commissioning and brokerage activities.

### Procurement Information

The contract was awarded under the Crown Commercial Service G-Cloud 14 framework agreement (RM1557.14). The framework was established following a competitive procurement process and permits contracting authorities to award call-off contracts in accordance with the framework rules without publishing a separate contract notice. Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council completed a compliant direct award process through the G-Cloud 14 Digital Marketplace and awarded the contract to the supplier offering the most economically advantageous solution that met the Council's requirements.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/091013-2026 |
| Notice type | Award Notice |
| Procurement type | Standard |
| Procurement category | Services |
| Procurement method | Limited |
| Procurement method details | Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition |
| Tender suitability | Not specified |
| Awardee scale | Large |
| All stages | Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 25 Sep 2026 |
| Submission deadline | Not specified |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | Not specified |
| Contract period | Not specified |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | Not specified |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | £51,000 |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Complete |
| Lots status | Cancelled |
| Awards status | Active |
| Contracts status | Active |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | Stockton on Tees Borough Council |
| Locality | STOCKTON ON TEES |
| Postcode area | Cleveland |
| Postcode | TS17 6BJ |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLC North East (England) |
| ITL 2 | TLC3 Tees Valley |
| ITL 3 | TLC31 Hartlepool and Stockton-on-Tees |
| Local authority | Stockton-on-Tees |
| Electoral ward | Mandale & Victoria |
| Westminster constituency | Middlesbrough and Thornaby East |
| Delivery location | TLC North East (England) |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 1 |
| Supplier names | Title: CareCubed - National Care Costing Tool |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 72 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

### Codes

- 72222300 - Information technology services

## Release History

- 25 Sep 2026 at 13:41 - Award - Award Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/091013-2026

## Notice URLs

- https://www.stockton.gov.uk/

## Provenance

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