Domiciliary Care Contracts and Tenders

Two ways in. Search live portals for open domiciliary care tenders, or move earlier and read buyer strategy documents and budget papers on Stotles to catch commissioning signals before a tender opens. Platform-wide, 2 notices are added to Stotles most weeks, across every procurement category, not just domiciliary care.

Domiciliary care maps most closely to CPV code 85312000, Social work services without accommodation, the standard classification for home-based personal care, and 85311100, Welfare services for the elderly, used on many council home care frameworks. Neither code is applied as a filter on this page: plenty of on-intent notices carry no CPV code at all, or a neighbouring one, so filtering by code alone would hide most of the results.

A large share. Councils commonly run domiciliary care as a multi-provider framework or dynamic purchasing system, appointing dozens of agencies to a single lot rather than one winner, and re-opening the list periodically for new entrants. Across UK public procurement generally, 44% of suppliers say frameworks are their main route to market, according to Stotles' Supplier Survey.

Local authority adult social care teams and NHS integrated care boards commission most domiciliary care, usually procured under the Care Act 2014 duty to support people to remain independent at home. Lots are typically split by geographic zone, complexity of need or age group, and awarded to several providers rather than a single supplier.

There are 67 open domiciliary care tenders on Stotles, against 7,766 notices tracked in total and 3,600 already awarded, with a further 747 sitting at pre-tender stage. Coverage spans councils, NHS trusts and housing associations commissioning care delivered in a person's own home.