Social Work Services with Accommodation Tenders and Contracts

Social work services with accommodation tenders cover residential and supported accommodation-based social care, including children's homes, residential care for adults with disabilities, extra care, respite and step-down placements, and supported housing for people experiencing homelessness. The accommodation is part of the care arrangement rather than a standalone letting.

Stotles brings together social work services with accommodation tenders and contracts from 100+ portals into one search, so you do not have to check each portal separately, and you can set alerts for new opportunities across the UK and Ireland.

If you want to search the government portals directly, Find a Tender carries higher-value contracts across the UK and Contracts Finder carries lower-value contracts in England. Public Contracts Scotland, Sell2Wales and eTendersNI cover Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, Ireland's eTenders covers Irish public bodies, and many councils, NHS bodies and housing associations publish on their own e-tendering portals such as ProContract. Placements are mostly bought through council dynamic purchasing systems and open frameworks that providers can join when they reopen, alongside block contracts for specific schemes.

Care homes and regulated supported living must be registered with the Care Quality Commission or the Care Inspectorate, children's homes with Ofsted, and staff need enhanced DBS checks. Tenders usually set minimum insurance cover, check financial standing and ask for evidence of similar services at selection stage. Under the Procurement Act 2023, suppliers can be excluded for certain criminal convictions, insolvency or failure to pay tax.

Many run as dynamic purchasing systems or framework agreements that let councils commission places as needs arise, alongside individual fixed-term contracts for specific homes or supported housing schemes. Providers must be registered with the Care Quality Commission where the service falls within its regulated activities.

Local councils commission much of this work through their adult social care and children's services teams. NHS integrated care boards also buy accommodation-based social care, working alongside councils on joint placements.

Read council market position statements, sufficiency strategies, homelessness and rough sleeping strategies and meet-the-buyer or market engagement notices, which come before frameworks and dynamic purchasing systems reopen. On Stotles you can track those signals and the buyers behind them, then follow a notice from pre-tender through to award.

Social work services with accommodation notices carry 85300000 (Social work and related services), 85000000 (Health and social work services) and 98000000 (Other community, social and personal services). Step-down and rehabilitation placements also carry 85312500 (Rehabilitation services) and 85323000 (Community health services). Many council notices carry no CPV code at all.