Finding council care contracts to bid for
Which council care contracts are open now for our kind of service, what are they worth and when do they close?
Tenders brings together adult care contracts from Find a Tender and Contracts Finder for every council and many NHS buyers: open now, coming up and awarded. Filter by service, value and closing date, open a tender for the buyer, lots, procedure and the notice itself, and set alerts so new ones reach you.
When people use it: Every week: most care tenders are open for four to six weeks.
How it works, step by step
Open now, closing soonest
Every open adult care tender in England with the buyer, value, closing date and days left. Add your council to narrow it.
Your service and size
Choose the service (home care, care homes, supported living, extra care, reablement and more), a minimum and maximum value, and how soon it closes, so you only see contracts you could deliver.
Open the tender
The detail shows the service, procedure, framework or dynamic purchasing system, contract dates and length, lots, whether it suits small businesses, how bids are scored, and a link to the notice.
Know the council before you bid
The council's hourly home care rate, demand, quality and risk score for the market understanding section, and its tenders section with past awards.
Get new tenders by email
Follow the councils you work in and Orrery emails you when a new care tender is published.
Ask the data in plain English
An example question with an answer worked from Orrery's data (October 2026). In the platform, Ask Orrery answers questions like this from the same data and shows its sources.
Ten home care tenders are open now, and about 20 councils have published notices of home care tenders to come. Values are the notice's estimate for the whole contract, often a framework shared by many providers.
Open now
- Rutland County Council: Domiciliary Care open framework, £20.3m, closes today (16 October).
- Cambridgeshire County Council: Homecare Framework, £773.4m.
- London Borough of Haringey: dynamic purchasing system for adults' and children's home support, £250m, open to February 2035.
- Thurrock Council: Domiciliary Care and Wellbeing Service, Locality 2, £20.8m.
- Bury: Care at Home, £15m.
- London Borough of Bromley: Domiciliary Care Patch Replenishment, £7.5m.
- Staffordshire County Council and Windsor and Maidenhead: home care services, no value stated.
- Leeds City Council: Interim Homecare Contract, open to March 2027.
- NHS England: a national homecare framework for a specialist group of patients, £43.7m, closes 22 October.
Coming up (planned and market engagement notices)
- Leeds City Council: Homecare Services, £400m.
- Tower Hamlets: Homecare, £300m.
- Cheshire East Council: Care at Home, £196m.
- Swindon Borough Council: Home Care, £180m.
- London Borough of Harrow: Homecare (Domiciliary) Services, £160m.
- Bath and North East Somerset: Older People's Homecare Framework, £150m.
- Calderdale: Homecare Services for Adults, £144m.
What to do next: open each tender for its lots, procedure and scoring, and follow the councils you can serve so new notices reach you by email.
Source: Orrery tenders (Find a Tender and Contracts Finder), 16 October 2026.
More questions you can ask
- “List open adult care tenders closing in the next 30 days worth over £1m, closing soonest first.”
- “Build a two page briefing on open and upcoming home care contracts in the South East: buyer, value, closing date and what each council pays per hour, with a table.”
- Values are what the notice states, often the ceiling for a whole framework over several years and many providers, not what one provider will earn.
- Frameworks and dynamic purchasing systems reopen: a closed one may let new providers join later, so note the reopening dates.
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