Residential care homes contracts

• The five suppliers that won the most residential care homes contracts took 22% of them (12 of 54).
• The median contract, £480k, is 71% above the median across social care contracts (£281k).
• NHS North West London ICB awarded 26% of the residential care homes contracts (14 of 54).

1. 1NHS North West London ICB14 contracts—
2. 2NHS Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care Board9 contracts—
3. 3Darlington Borough Council8 contracts£3.5m
4. 4Telford & Wrekin Council5 contracts£3.2m
5. 5West Northamptonshire Council3 contracts£725k
6. 6Nottinghamshire County Council2 contracts£125m
7. 7Bedford Borough Council2 contracts£529k
8. 8Brighton & Hove City Council1 contract£319m
9. 9Powys County Council1 contract£240m
10. 10London Borough of Richmond upon Thames1 contract£132m

1. 1Avery Homes5 contracts£218k
2. 2Barchester Healthcare4 contracts—
3. 3Country Court Care Homes3 contracts£1.3m
4. 4ARA CARE BENFIELD HALL LIMITED3 contracts£480k
5. 5Anchor Hanover Group3 contracts—
6. 6HC-One3 contracts—
7. 7Crown Care Group3 contracts—
8. 8ideal care homes3 contracts—
9. 9Monarch Care Group3 contracts—
10. 10Shaw Healthcare2 contracts£240m

Latest

• Spot Contract for the Provision of Older People Residential and Nursing Services between Borough of Telford & Wrekin and RS Care Homes Limited (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £437k

  Telford & Wrekin Council to RS Care Homes Limited · Awarded 5 October 2026

• Care Home Spot Purchasing (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £218k

  West Northamptonshire Council to Avery Homes · Awarded 2 October 2026

• Off Framework Residential Care for Adults and Older People and Older People with Mental Health Needs for ID5021849 (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £454k

  Darlington Borough Council to Prestige Care · Awarded 30 September 2026

• Off Framework Residential Care for Adults and Older People and Older People with Mental Health Needs for ID5006479 (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £120k

  Darlington Borough Council to ARA CARE BENFIELD HALL LIMITED · Awarded 29 September 2026

• Off Framework Residential Care for Adults and Older People and Older People with Mental Health Needs for ID415250 (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £240k

  Darlington Borough Council to ARA CARE BENFIELD HALL LIMITED · Awarded 29 September 2026

• Off Framework Residential Care for Adults and Older People and Older People with Mental Health Needs for ID410301 (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £120k

  Darlington Borough Council to ARA CARE BENFIELD HALL LIMITED · Awarded 29 September 2026

• Spot Contract for the Provision of older people residential and nursing services between Borough of Telford & Wrekin and Restful Homes (Longford) Ltd (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £660k

  Telford & Wrekin Council to Restful Homes · Awarded 28 September 2026

• Off Framework Residential Care for Adults and Older People and Older People with Mental Health Needs for ID5017343 (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £580k

  Darlington Borough Council to Royal British Legion · Awarded 21 September 2026

• BSOL_Springcare (Eastwood) Limited_2026-27_IFPCHC (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  Value not published

  NHS Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care Board to Springcare Care Homes · Awarded 17 September 2026

Largest

• BHCC - NK - Care Homes within Brighton and Hove - (Round 6) April 2026 (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £319m

  Brighton & Hove City Council to EVANS CARE LIMITED · Awarded 19 June 2026

• Powys County Council Older Person Care Home Accommodation - Transforming Care for a Bright Future (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £240m

  Powys County Council to Shaw Healthcare · Awarded 19 December 2025

• Residential and Nursing Care Services (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £132m

  London Borough of Richmond upon Thames to Agincare · Awarded 2 December 2025

• PFI Adult Care Home Opportunity (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £79.8m

  London Borough of Croydon to Eleanor Nursing and Social Care · Awarded 4 February 2026

Long-term places in registered care homes for older people and general adult populations, including residential dementia care, bought as individual placements, framework or DPS call-offs, block beds or spot purchases. Also the home for combined residential-and-nursing care home frameworks and dual-registered placements where nursing is not singled out.

• Older people's residential care home placements, general and dementia
• Combined residential and nursing care home frameworks and DPS
• Dual-registered care home placements
• Framework call-offs, spot purchases and block residential beds
• Adult care home placements where no specialist client group is named
• Market engagement for residential and nursing care home services

• Placements bought for nursing care only, including CHC and fast-track (soc.res.nursing-home-placements)
• Care homes for working-age adults with learning disability, autism, mental health needs or physical disability (soc.res.specialist-residential-care-working-age-adults)
• Short-term, discharge-to-assess, step-down and intermediate care beds (soc.res.short-term-and-discharge-to-assess-beds)
• Respite stays that give carers a break (soc.res.adult-residential-respite)
• Care market analysis and cost of care exercises (csl.econ.care-market-and-cost-of-care-analysis)
• Care home catering (cat.health.care-home-extra-care-catering)
• Care home cleaning (cln.bldg.contract-cleaning)
• Building works (con.build.refurbishment-remodelling)

• Discharge to assess

• Independent advocacy
• Home care