Source: https://tendernation.io/opportunities/01a13bcb-9a2d-712a-8903-b1d8ebf7e4d0/hh108-27-hb-adult-social-care-commissioning-flexible-framework

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# HH108-27-HB Adult Social Care Commissioning Flexible Framework

[NHS Highland](https://tendernation.io/buyers/nhs-highland)

Estimated value

£2,421,000,000

Published

2 Oct 2026

Deadline

73 days left

31 Dec 2026

## Who can bid

- Split into 4 lots

    You can usually bid for just the lots you can deliver.
- Sets up a framework

    Winning a place does not guarantee work: contracts are awarded later as call-offs, and the list usually stays closed for years.

## About this tender

NHS Highland, acting as the Lead Agency for Integrated Health and Social Care for Adults on behalf of the Highland Health and Social Care Partnership (HHSCP), is reopening its established Flexible Framework Agreement for the provision of Adult Social Care Services across the Highland Council area.

This framework reopening will allow:

existing framework providers to apply for admission to additional service lots; and potential new providers to apply for admission to the flexible framework.

The services covered by the framework are:

- Lot 1 Care at Home Services

### Sub Lot 1A: Care at Home

### Sub Lot 1B: Enhanced Responder Service

### Sub Lot 1C: Specialist Overnight Service

- Lot 2 Residential and Nursing Care Home Placements
- Lot 3 Registered Day Care Services
- Lot 4 Supported Living Services

Sub Lot 4A: Supported Living

### Sub Lot 4B: Housing Support

### Sub Lot 4C: Home-Based Respite

### Sub Lot 4D: Waking Night Responder Service

New Contracts awarded under this existing flexible framework are expected to commence on 1 July 2027.

Admission to the flexible framework does not guarantee the award of any contract, nor any minimum volume or value of business to providers.

## CPV classification

Health and social work services Residential nursing care services Daycare services Other community, social and personal services

Source

Find a Tender (UK) · Notice ocds-h6vhtk-04cca5-2026-10-02T09:59:39+01:00

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