Recommissioning of Care Provision at Condor’s Rest, Closer to Home (Supported Living) Scheme, Bridgend

Procurement reference

B826/26

Procurement description

Bridgend County Borough Council is looking to recommission the care and support provision for 4 Individuals at the Closer to Home (Supported Living) Scheme – Condor’s Rest.

The Council is looking to engage with high quality Providers who can demonstrate their experience of delivering specialist and complex care provision within supported living services.

This is an opportunity for experienced providers interested in providing specialist and complex care and support to hear from the Council about the upcoming tender opportunity.

Providers will be required to work with the Council to implement sustainable and flexible models of support that enable Individuals to live their best lives, and wherever possible to become active members of their local communities.

The service must be available 24 hours a day, 365 days per year in line with the assessed needs of Individuals.

A Pre-Market Engagement session is planned for BCBC to present the key elements of the planned procurement, to hear about Providers’ knowledge and experience, and to answer questions that Providers may have.

Experience of delivering specialist and complex care within Supported Living services will be a pre-requisite.

Condor's Rest consists of 4 placements who receive a total of 561 hours of care per week, with a current weekly value of £13,315.49.

Please note this is for information purposes only and further Service details will be provided at tender stage.

Main category

Services

Delivery regions

• UKL17 - Bridgend and Neath Port Talbot

Total value (estimated)

4165617.89 GBP Excluding VAT

4998741.47 GBP Including VAT

Contract dates (estimated)

01 April 2027, 00:00AM to 31 March 2031, 23:59PM

Extension end date (if all the extensions are used): 31 March 2033

Bridgend County Borough Council

Is this procurement under a special regime?

Light touch

Is the total value above threshold?

Above threshold

CPV classifications

• 85300000 - Social work and related services

Delivery regions

• UKL17 - Bridgend and Neath Port Talbot

Sustainability

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SME)

Voluntary, community and social enterprises (VCSE)

Contract start date (estimated)

01 April 2027, 00:00AM

Contract end date (estimated)

31 March 2031, 23:59PM

Extension end date (estimated)

31 March 2033, 23:59PM

Can the contract be extended?

Yes

Engagement process description

Bridgend County Borough Council (BCBC) will shortly be recommissioning its Closer to Home Scheme at Condor’s Rest and are keen to work with a high quality registered social care provider with experience of specialist and complex care provision with supported living settings.

In order to further the procurement plans, BCBC will carry out a market engagement event with appropriately registered and experienced care providers to gain a provider’s perspective on the service model that BCBC to start from April 2027.

The market testing event will be in the form of a group Microsoft Teams meetings (online) with interested providers and will be facilitated by BCBC.

This will take place over 2 hours, between 13:00-15:00 on Monday 20th July 2026.

Please register your intention to join the Engagement Event online by completing the following form (you will need to copy and paste the link below in to your browser) you will then be directed to the online form to register your interest:

https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=rTq3RqsH4k2zL0xUtDSm5dIVFmBCwuNJr4-l5sJvzcxUMzBBRzdNQ0Y0TUFYUjFGVE01UlNPQzRJNi4u&route=shorturl

Due date

31 August 2026, 23:59PM

Has the engagement period already ended?

No

Publication date of tender notice (estimated)

01 October 2026