Dementia Tenders and Contracts

Dementia contracts cover day opportunities and respite sessions, community dementia support and advice services, dementia-friendly environment and design work, post-diagnostic support, and specialist residential or home-based care for people living with dementia. Councils and NHS bodies commission these individually rather than through one national scheme, which is why the same type of service can appear under very different titles from one area to the next.

Stotles brings together dementia 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. Dementia services are commissioned council by council and integrated care board by integrated care board, and many awards use the Provider Selection Regime.

Dementia tenders are scored on quality as well as price, so bids show outcomes for people with dementia and their carers, staff training, partnership working and local knowledge. Many contracts are re-awarded to existing providers, so the expiry of the current contract is the moment to bid.

Providers of regulated care must be registered with the Care Quality Commission in England, or the equivalent regulator elsewhere, and staff working with vulnerable adults need the right 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.

Councils and NHS integrated care boards commission much of this work locally, often as direct awards to an existing provider or after market engagement. NHS trusts and health boards also buy dementia services, under a range of titles for very similar work.

Mostly local authorities and NHS integrated care boards, working through adult social care and community health teams rather than one national programme. Dementia support is commissioned from inside a much wider adult social care budget, one council or one ICB at a time, rather than as its own funding line.

Read commissioning intentions, service reviews, market position statements and Provider Selection Regime notices, which show dementia work coming due ahead of a notice. On Stotles you can track those signals and the commissioners behind them, then follow a notice from pre-tender through to award.

Dementia tenders are filed under general health and social care codes, such as 85300000 (Social work and related services), 85323000 (Community health services) and 85312500 (Rehabilitation services). None of these is dementia-specific, and many council notices carry no CPV code.