Extra Care Services

Extra Care Services

Extra care housing developments require a very different competitive bidding strategy from standard domiciliary or residential care commissioning. The integration of housing management and care delivery, the emphasis on independence and community integration, and the specific outcomes frameworks used by housing associations and local authorities jointly commissioning extra care schemes all create a commissioning environment that generalist bid writers consistently misunderstand.

Evaluation criteria for extra care services focus on how your care model integrates with the housing and facilities management infrastructure, your approach to supporting independence rather than dependency, your outcomes data for existing extra care or housing with care services, your partnerships with housing providers, and your capacity to respond flexibly as residents' needs change over time.

TenderLab's approach to extra care tendering addresses the specific dual-commissioning context that these procurements operate within. We build responses that speak to both the care delivery evaluation criteria and the housing integration expectations, evidencing your model's approach to independence, community, and measurable quality of life for residents.