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Sheffield City Council

Carers’ Support Service

HealthcareCPV 85000000
Value£8.1m
Deadline31 Jul 2026
Published23 Jun 2026
RegionNationwide
Timeline
Published 23 Jun 20267 days leftCloses 31 Jul 2026
Who to contact
Shaheen Choudhry
shaheen.choudhry@sheffield.gov.uk
+44 1142053646

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

How to submit
Open the submissions portal

The submission route named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£8.1mtotal contract value
median £380k
this tender£0£16.5m

This is a large award for Health & Social Care — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 32,734 valued Health & Social Care tenders in our corpus.

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The brief

A contract for a Carers’ Support Service is being procured by Sheffield City Council.

The deadline for submission of tenders is 31st July 2026 at 12PM.

This tender is being procured under the Open procedure where suppliers submit all requested tender information at once and with no opportunity to develop or improve their tender once it has been submitted.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

A contract for a Carers’ Support Service

A contract for a Carers’ Support Service is being procured by Sheffield City Council.

Derived from the notice text — always confirm against the original documents.

What it takes to bid this

2540 daysof bid-team effort
£17.1k£27.4kat typical UK bid-team rates
Compressed window — start the same week

Typical UK bid effort for the £1m–£10m band — an estimate, not a quote.

Qualify & bid/no-bid ~10% · SQ / PQQ ~20% · Written response ~55% · Review & presentation ~15%

Typical for this category — confirm against the ITT pack

  • Hold at bidCQC registration / safeguarding policies
  • Plan for deliveryDBS-checked staff & vetting process
  • Plan for deliveryTUPE (incumbent staff often transfer)
  • Show at bidComparable references / case studies
  • Hold at bidFinancial standing (accounts, often ~2× contract value turnover)
  • Hold at bidInsurance cover (PL / EL, often PI)
  • Show at bidSocial value commitments

Hold at bid = pass/fail conditions of participation. Show at bid = scored in the quality response. Plan for delivery = contract obligations from day one.

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05e3d3
Stage
tender · Open
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
059164-2026
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