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    ContractsHomelessness and Rough Sleeping Support Services – Market Engagement
    Open tender

    Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Support Services – Market Engagement

    Contract value
    £3.7m
    Published 26 Oct 2026

    Reading Borough Council is seeking supplier input on the design of prevention-focused homelessness and rough sleeping support services planned for procurement in early 2027.

    🇬🇧United Kingdom· South EastPublished 26 Oct 2026· 2 weeks agoviaFind a Tender
    Contract value
    £3.7m
    Published 26 Oct 2026

    Decision brief

    4 fields
    • Contract value
      £3,700,000indicative
      Pounds sterling
    • Closing date
      Rolling
      No closing date published
    • Sector
      Social Care
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    • Location
      🇬🇧United Kingdom
      South East

    Lifecycle

    Open

    Open tender — no closing date published. Opened 2 weeks ago.

    26 October 2026
    Open tender · no closing date published

    Brief

    Reading Borough Council is undertaking preliminary market engagement ahead of procuring rough sleeping and homelessness support services in early 2027. The Council is developing a new Preventing Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Strategy (2026-2031) with a vision to make homelessness rare, brief and non-recurring. The strategy recognises that homelessness is driven by multiple factors including housing affordability, health inequalities, trauma, financial hardship and social exclusion, requiring coordinated responses across housing, health, social care and community services. The Council's strategic priorities are to: intervene early to prevent homelessness, break cycles of rough sleeping, and ensure access to safe, settled and affordable housing. As part of this engagement, the Council is reviewing and redesigning its current homelessness support services to be prevention-focused, housing-led and able to support people experiencing rough sleeping, homelessness and multiple disadvantage. The Council is seeking supplier feedback on proposed service design, inter-service interfaces, delivery models and indicative funding levels. This exercise will inform the development of service specifications, procurement documents and future commissioning arrangements. This is a market engagement activity and does not constitute a formal procurement process.

    Track record

    7 awards · 7 winners
    Open field

    No single supplier dominates the field.

    In this category, READING BOROUGH COUNCIL has awarded 7 contracts to 7 suppliers.

    Who wins here
    1. ICE CREATES LIMITED1× · 14%
    2. AN SSC LIMITED1× · 14%
    3. HEALTHY DIALOGUES LTD1× · 14%
    4. DAYBREAK FAMILY GROUP CONFERENCES1× · 14%
    5. AGE UK BERKSHIRE1× · 14%
    6. READING MENCAP1× · 14%

    +1 more supplier

    Across this category, the most active winners are CARE LINE HOMECARE LIMITED, SPRINGFIELD HOME CARE SERVICES LIMITED, HERTS and ESSEX FERTILITY CENTRE LIMITED — the field to beat, or your route in as a partner.

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    UK Cabinet Office
    Licence
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    Source
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    Record ID
    ocds-h6vhtk-078fc3

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