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Home care contracts

UK public sector · 363 contracts awarded in the 12 months to 6 October 2026

Covering 600+ buyer portals · 5 years of records · Updated 6 October 2026 · How we count

Contracts awarded
363
Last 12 months
Median contract
£64k
Recorded value
Recorded value
£1.3bn
306 of 360 main-service contracts have a published value
Buyers
33
Suppliers
885

BidSkim assigns contracts to services from the notice text. How services are assigned

What stands out

  • The five suppliers that won the most home care contracts took 72% of them (261 of 363).
  • Contracts awarded per quarter fell 18% from the first half of the period to the second.
  • The median contract, £64k, is 77% below the median across social care contracts (£281k).
  • North East had the most contracts: 279, or 77% of the total.

Who buys home care

By contracts awarded, the 12 months to 6 October 2026.

  1. 1Darlington Borough Council277 contracts
  2. 2NHS North West London ICB16 contracts
  3. 3NHS Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care Board12 contracts
  4. 4Westminster City Council8 contracts
  5. 5NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board7 contracts
  6. 6West Northamptonshire Council4 contracts
  7. 7Norfolk County Council3 contracts
  8. 8Kirklees Council3 contracts
  9. 9Halton Borough Council3 contracts
  10. 10Durham County Council2 contracts

Top home care contractors by contracts won

The 12 months to 6 October 2026.

  1. 1Careline Homecare134 contracts
  2. 2Springfield Home Care Services109 contracts
  3. 3Chinite Resourcing Limited8 contracts
  4. 4FIRSTPOINT HEALTH LIMITED5 contracts
  5. 5Firstpoint Healthcare5 contracts
  6. 6Health Vision UK4 contracts
  7. 7Chinite4 contracts
  8. 8Bluebird Care (Carlisle & Dumfries)4 contracts
  9. 9GENUINE CARERS4 contracts
  10. 10Lotus Homecare4 contracts

Latest and largest awards

Each links to the official notice.

Latest

Largest

Contracts awarded by quarter

61Q4 2025*101Q1 2026117Q2 202683Q3 20261Q4 2026*
* part quarter

Where the contracts were awarded

England 359 · Scotland 3 · Wales 1

North East279West Midlands16Yorkshire and The Humber13East Midlands7London7North West6East of England5South East4Scotland3South West1Wales1UK-wide or not stated21

What is included

Scheduled visits by a registered home care provider giving personal care, medication support and practical help to adults or children in their own homes under ongoing care packages, including end-of-life and NHS fast-track packages. Population and funder (council, CHC, fast-track, section 117) are facets.

  • Long-term home care packages and call-offs
  • Zone, block and framework home care contracts
  • CHC and section 117 funded home care
  • Home care for older people, working-age adults, people with dementia or learning disabilities
  • Home support for disabled children
  • Night care visits within a general home care contract
  • CHC fast-track care packages
  • Fast-track personal health budget packages
  • End-of-life domiciliary care

What is not included

  • Complex or bespoke packages needing specially trained staff (soc.home.complex-care-at-home)
  • Live-in care (soc.home.live-in-care)
  • Short-term reablement (soc.home.home-based-reablement)
  • Discharge bridging, discharge-to-assess and crisis care (soc.home.hospital-discharge-care-at-home)
  • On-site care teams in extra care schemes (soc.home.extra-care-housing-care-and-support)
  • Domestic cleaning-only packages (soc.prev.practical-help-at-home)
  • Supported living in a person's tenancy (soc.supp.supported-living)
  • Respite at home for carers (soc.carer.adult-respite-at-home-and-community)
  • Fast-track care home placements (soc.res.nursing-home-placements)
  • Homecare scheduling and call monitoring software (it.lob.homecare-scheduling-and-monitoring)
  • Care market analysis and cost of care exercises (csl.econ.care-market-and-cost-of-care-analysis)
  • Hospice at home and specialist palliative nursing (another industry: healthcare)

Often bought by the same buyers