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# Early Market Engagement - Home and Community Care for Children with Disabilities

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/early-market-engagement-home-and-community-care-for-children-with-disabilities-ocds-h6vhtk-0359d6). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Notice summary:** Due to the approaching expiry of an existing contract Northumberland County Council are advertising to seek tenders from suitably experienced and qualified organisations with the intention of creating an improved framework of multiple Suppliers (on a non exclusive basis) who are able to deliver support for disabled children and young people within their homes and community. This will be in line with assessed levels of need and may form part of a continuum of care. The framework is required to provide disabled children and young people aged 0-18 with an individual support service that is personalised to meet their needs. Parent carers may have other children to support and the service shall give support to a child, which enables the whole family to function in a positive way.

## Key Information
- **Status:** PLANNED (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [Northumberland County Council](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/northumberland-county-council-ons-e06000057)
- **Planned Pipeline Value:** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Not published
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Social work and related services
- **Delivery Location:** UKC2
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-0359d6`

## 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-market-engagement-home-and-community-care-for-children-with-disabilities-ocds-h6vhtk-0359d6#tl-md)

## Description
Due to the approaching expiry of an existing contract Northumberland County Council are advertising to seek tenders from suitably experienced and qualified organisations with the intention of creating an improved framework of multiple Suppliers (on a non exclusive basis) who are able to deliver support for disabled children and young people within their homes and community. This will be in line with assessed levels of need and may form part of a continuum of care.
It is intended that the service shall:
●	Build capacity within the home environment and support families to develop strategies and skills to assist with the management of the child’s needs and/or condition(s);
●	Enable children and young people to access social and leisure opportunities, assisting them to integrate into local universal and specialist community resources;
●	Enable family carers to take a break from their caring role. The family carers may choose to remain in the home or to take a break outside of the home.
Delivery may include the provision of day, evening and weekend activities for the child or young person and can take place in the child's own home, the home of an approved carer or in a community setting.

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

- **Delivery regions:** UKC

- **Description:** The Council wishes to create a framework that will allow it to purchase services from multiple Suppliers (on a non exclusive basis) for individual disabled children and their families through a variety of targeted and specialist services delivered wi...

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F021734-2022)
- **Last Source Update:** 2022-08-08T12:32:37.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-11-08T11:28:36.822Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-0359d6