Estimated Value
Up to £7,442,000,000
Deadline
15 January 2026
Published
1 October 2025
Type
Not specified
Overview
This is a procurement for an open framework for the development of new care home accommodation with care and nursing provided in a care home setting. In 2023, the Authority published its Supported and Specialist Housing Strategy, Cornwall Supported & Specialist Housing Strategy 2023-2050 which sets out the future demand for services.
This procurement tender exercise is for the development of new care home schemes in strategic locations across Cornwall to meet the demand set out in the Specialist and Supported Housing Strategy and Market Position Statement. The Authority is inviting tenders from suitably experienced and qualified developers of care home accommodation and providers of care services to be appointed to the open framework.
A Developer may either be the Care Services Provider, or have partnered with a Care Services Provider in order to be eligible for this Procurement. It is the Supplier as a whole that will be appointed to the Framework, not the individual Developer or Care Services Provider in isolation.
Eligibility & compliance
In order to tender for a place on the Framework, a Supplier must be comprised of a Developer and a Care Services Provider.
Additional details
The NHS Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly Integrated Care Board shall be entitled to access any care services ordered under this Framework. Please refer to the tender documents for further details.
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Likely incumbents
Suppliers who won similar work from this buyer in the last 5 years.
- 1
Home-Start Kernow
4 contracts wonlatest 7 Sept 2026ends 31 Mar 2029£499,998
total awarded
- 2
Livewest Homes Ltd
3 contracts wonlatest 9 Sept 2026ends 31 Mar 2030£25m
total awarded
- 3
Cygnus Contracting Ltd
2 contracts wonlatest 6 Oct 2026£586,255
total awarded
- 4
The Women's Centre Cornwall
2 contracts wonlatest 30 Sept 2026ends 31 Mar 2031£16m
total awarded
- 5
Barnardo's
2 contracts wonlatest 30 Sept 2026ends 30 Jun 2029£10m
total awarded
Home-Start Kernow is the most likely incumbent based on recency and category match. To win, bidders typically need a clearly differentiated proposition or a price advantage.
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Cornwall CouncilKey Dates
Published
1 October 2025
Submission deadline
15 January 2026
Notice type
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