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title: "Provision of Social Care Workers"
ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-0781f3"
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current_stage: "Award"
buyer: "Orkney Islands Council"
published: "2026-10-06"
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# Provision of Social Care Workers

Buyer: Orkney Islands Council  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-0781f3

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## Summary

Orkney Islands Council procured agency social care workers to support services across Orkney. Workers were intended for home care, care homes, supported accommodation and sheltered housing. This is a social care staffing requirement, including day-care-related provision, delivered in Orkney. The procurement was arranged to maintain service levels and meet legislative requirements when additional staff were needed at short notice. It covered agency-provided workers across the listed care settings rather than a single facility or service location.

The procurement is complete and the council awarded the contract to MedGen Ltd Scotland, Randstad and Seven Resourcing. The contract is active and was signed on 5 March 2025, with a recorded value of £2,666,961. The process used a limited procedure without prior publication of a competition notice, justified by extreme urgency. The stated reason was the need to recruit additional agency staff at short notice because the available workforce through the existing Scotland Excel framework was limited. There was one lot, but it is marked cancelled; the award and active contract are nevertheless recorded against it. Price was the stated award criterion. Three bids were received, all from small and medium-sized enterprises.

This contract shows demand from Orkney Islands Council for agency social care workers across home care, care homes, supported accommodation and sheltered housing. A credible future competitor would need to recruit and supply suitable care staff at short notice, with enough workforce capacity to cover services across Orkney despite local availability constraints. Suppliers should be able to support continuity of care and the council’s legislative obligations across multiple care settings, rather than only provide staff for one site. The award of all three recorded bids to small and medium-sized enterprises indicates that smaller staffing businesses competed in this procurement. The council used an urgent route outside its existing framework, so the ability to mobilise quickly and reliably would be commercially relevant if a comparable requirement returns.

## Notice

Provision of social care workers via agency provision to work within the Homecare, Care Homes, Supported Accommodation and Sheltered Housing within Orkney

### Lot Information

Lot 1

Provision of social care workers via agency provision to work within the Homecare, Care Homes, Supported Accommodation and Sheltered Housing within Orkney.

### Procurement Information

In order to maintain the levels of service provision across the services and comply with legislation additional social care workers have been recruited via Agencies at short notice. The Scotland Excel framework does provide social care workers to Orkney however due to the limited availability of staff available the Authority has a continuing to recruit additional agency staff at short notice outwith the framework., whilst adhering to the Contract Standing Orders governance procedures.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/094399-2026 |
| 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 | SME |
| All stages | Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 6 Oct 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 | £2,666,961 |

## Status

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

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | Orkney Islands Council |
| Locality | KIRKWALL |
| Postcode area | Kirkwall |
| Postcode | KW15 1NY |
| Country | Scotland |
| ITL 1 | TLM Scotland |
| ITL 2 | TLM2 Highlands and Islands |
| ITL 3 | TLM20 Highlands and Islands |
| Local authority | Orkney Islands |
| Electoral ward | Kirkwall East |
| Westminster constituency | Orkney and Shetland |
| Delivery location | TLM65 Orkney Islands |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 3 |
| Supplier names | MedGen Ltd Scotland; Randstad; Seven Resourcing Limited |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 85 - Health and social work services
- 98 - Other community, social and personal services

### Codes

- 85312100 - Daycare services
- 98000000 - Other community, social and personal services

## Release History

- 6 Oct 2026 at 15:56 - Award - Award Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/094399-2026

## Notice URLs

- http://www.orkney.gov.uk
- https://api.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/v1/Notice?id=ocds-r6ebe6-0000844903
- https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx?ID=AA00369
- https://www.scotcourts.gov.uk/

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