Official UK procurement notice
Advocacy, Participation and Family Group Decision Making Services
Authority: Trafford Council (Local council)·On behalf of: Star Procurement
Sectors: Health & Social Care (85) Delivery: Delivery location not published
Budget not disclosedValue not published
Tender notice expected Date not publishedfrom the planned procurement notice
Contract term 1 yrstarts 1 Apr 2027
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionTrafford Council wishes to invite providers to express their interest and respond to a Soft Market Testing exercise for the provision of Advocacy, Participation and Family Group Decision Making Services.
CPV: Welfare services for children and young people
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Lot 1Planned
85311300 Welfare services for children and young people
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Light touch regime
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 5 Oct 2026, 15:27 BST
- Last source update
- 5 Oct 2026, 15:27 BST
- Authority reference
DN 831316- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0780fd
How it was run
- Submission deadline
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Timeline
3 published dates · Europe/London- Planning notice publishedearlier today5 Oct 2026, 15:27 BST
- Market engagementin 16 days22 Oct 2026, 00:59 BSTPlease read, complete and submit the attached Soft Market Testing document. The document has been uploaded on the Chest (Procurement Portal).
- Contract startsin 177 days1 Apr 2027, 01:00 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published5 Oct 2026, 15:27 BSTUK2
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
2 public bodies on the noticeOther public bodies
- Star ProcurementProcess contact pointProcuring entityProcurement Support
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender