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Complex AWD Residential Framework reopening 2025
Essex County Council · Local authority
In brief
Essex County Council was looking for suppliers for care and healthcare work. Bidding has closed and no award has been published yet.
It is a framework worth up to £168,000,000 excluding VAT: the most the buyer expects to spend across all suppliers, not one contract.
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What the notice says
Essex County Council is seeking to procure a framework for the delivery of registered residential care services to adults with complex needs, with learning disabilities and/or autism. This is a re-opening exercise for the framework to identify new providers.
The framework is for an initial period of 4 years from the initial contract award in March 2023, with the option to extend for a further two years.
The framework is open to all providers (with or without existing residential services in Essex) and will not have a limit for the number of providers or homes. The closure date for the procurement process will be 12pm on 5th December 2025 and all procurement and contract documents can be viewed free of charge on ProContract - https://procontract.due-north.com/
Timeline
- Contract notice · notice 069517-2025
About the buyer
Essex County CouncilLast 12 months
Procurements
134Awards
75Suppliers it has used most for care
- Creative Support Limited2 contracts
- Get Skills Employment & Training Ltd2 contracts
- Hales Group Limited2 contracts
- Ace Music Therapy CIC1 contract
- Apricot Centre CIC1 contract
Similar open tenders
All open care tenders- £164mestimated
- £82kestimated
- £12.7mestimated
- £44.1mestimated
- £1.3mestimated
From notice 069517-2025 on Find a Tender, first published 29 October 2025. We last checked for changes on 28 September 2026.