Care Tenders in Wales

On Sell2Wales (sell2wales.gov.wales), the single national portal. According to Social Care Wales, every Welsh public sector social care contract or framework worth £30,000 or more inclusive of VAT must be advertised there, so it is the main route, not Contracts Finder or Find a Tender. Register a free supplier account, set keyword and CPV alerts for care-at-home and residential services, and watch both your home council and your Regional Partnership Board region. Doing this first means you see opportunities the moment they are published rather than hearing about them too late to bid.

No. Care services in Wales are regulated by Care Inspectorate Wales (CIW), not the Care Quality Commission. Care homes and domiciliary support services register with CIW, and since 2025 they receive published ratings of Excellent, Good, Adequate or Poor. Commissioners read your CIW rating and latest inspection report directly into the quality section of a bid. If a tender form asks for a CQC rating, it has usually been copied from an English template, and the buyer means your CIW registration and rating.

A Regional Partnership Board (RPB) is a statutory body that integrates health and social care across a region. The Welsh Government established 7 RPBs under the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014, bringing together the 22 local authorities, the 7 local health boards and the third sector, and they manage the Welsh Government's Regional Integration Fund. For providers, RPBs matter because supported living, complex care and reablement money increasingly flows through regional, collaborative commissioning, so a single framework can cover several councils at once.

Often, yes, as a scored qualitative requirement. Under the Welsh Language (Wales) Measure and the 'More than just words' framework, many care tenders ask how you make an active offer of Welsh-language services, meaning the person receives the choice without having to request it. English-only providers tend to write weak answers here and lose marks. A strong response evidences Welsh-speaking staff, recruitment and training plans, recording of language preferences, bilingual materials and local partnerships, so it reads as real practice rather than a policy statement.

Your first tender is £795. We only take bids we believe you can win, and if a loss is clearly down to our writing error we rewrite the next one free. Our win rate is 96 percent. We cannot guarantee any single result, because the commissioner scores and other bidders matter too, but we only start work where a CIW-registered Welsh provider has a genuine, evidenced chance. Practically that means the right Sell2Wales notice, a CIW rating you can stand behind, and a credible Welsh-language active offer before we put a bid together.