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# Early Engagement, Soft Market Assessment – Market Position Statement Adult Social Care

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/early-engagement-soft-market-assessment-market-position-statement-adult-social-care-ocds-h6vhtk-044def). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Notice summary:** BCP Council would like to seek input from the market and gain interest from potential bidders, prior to formulating any formal procurement opportunity. This will provide early insight into the likely level of interest from that market and will help shape the requirement. BCP Council is conducting a Soft Market Assessment to gain an understanding of specialist organisations with relevant experience that can assist the Council with completion of an updated and extended Market Position Statement for Adult Social Care. Participation or non-participation in this market exercise shall not prevent any organisation participating in any potential procurement process nor is it intended that any information supplied shall place any organisation at an advantage in any forthcoming procurement process.

## Key Information
- **Status:** PLANNED (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/bournemouth-christchurch-and-poole-council-ons-e06000058)
- **Planned Pipeline Value:** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Not published
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Health and social work services
- **Delivery Location:** UKK24
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-044def`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/early-engagement-soft-market-assessment-market-position-statement-adult-social-care-ocds-h6vhtk-044def#tl-md)

## Description
Early Engagement, Soft Market Assessment – Market Position Statement Adult Social Care
BCP Council would like to seek input from the market and gain interest from potential bidders, prior to formulating any formal procurement opportunity.  This will provide early insight into the likely level of interest from that market and will help shape the requirement.
BCP Council is conducting a Soft Market Assessment to gain an understanding of specialist organisations with relevant experience that can assist the Council with completion of an updated and extended Market Position Statement for Adult Social Care.
The Market Position Statement will be a strategic document to enable the care sector to understand the current position and likely future commissioning direction in line with the financial climate of the council.  It will detail Adult Social Cares commissioning intentions in respect to its Care Act duties and identified need.
The Statement will cover the following sectors:
1.	Long term conditions
2.	Mental health
3.	Learning disabilities
4.	Autism
Our Commissioning aim is for this project to commence June 2024 with up to 3 months for completion of the full Market Position Statement.
Please could interested organisations, forward a message in this Opportunity providing your organisations contact information and expertise in this area.
The deadline for this Soft Market Assessment is Wednesday 17 April 2024 by 14:00hrs.
Participation or non-participation in this market exercise shall not prevent any organisation participating in any potential procurement process nor is it intended that any information supplied shall place any organisation at an advantage in any forthcoming procurement process.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** planned

- **Delivery regions:** UKK

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F010183-2024)
- **Last Source Update:** 2024-03-28T09:24:06.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-11-02T06:48:29.033Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-044def