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Published 1 Oct 2025, 11:44 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Early Market Engagement - Learning Disability Supported Living Accommodation in the preferred area of Ballymoney, but the Trust will consider other areas as secondary options.

Official notice

Authority: Northern Health and Social Care Trust (Central government)

Services
Sectors: Health & Social Care (85) Delivery: UK
Planned pipeline valueValue not publishedpipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 22 Oct 2025from the planned procurement notice

What is being bought

Published requirement description

This is a Prior Information Notice (PIN) by way of an Early Market Engagement scoping for the NHSCT to ascertain current capacity and potential future capacity in the market for the provision of a bespoke single occupancy Learning Disability Supported Living Accommodation for a Service User with complex behaviours in the preferred area of Ballymoney but the Trust will consider other areas as secondary options.

CPV: Health and social work services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1This is a PIN by the NHSCT for an Early Market Engagement (NOT a Call for Tender) to…Planned

This is a PIN by the NHSCT for an Early Market Engagement (NOT a Call for Tender) to ascertain current capacity in the market AND potential future capacity for the provision of bespoke single occupancy Learning Disability Supported Living Accommodation for a complex service user who presents with challenging behaviour. Given complexity, care must be provided in a 24/7 bespoke facility with anticipated 3:1 ratio basis throughout the day and night. No sleeping night staff, however, service user could potentially be managed with 2 waking night staff and 1 sleeping, if the third staff member could respond promptly if/when required Accommodation in the preferred area of Ballymoney but the Trust will consider other areas as secondary options. Additional information: This is not a Call for Tender and there is no guarantee any procurement process will be run. Any interest shown by Providers will be further explored but this does not constitute a commitment to progress in a procurement exercise. Failure to show interest does not restrict providers from participating in any future procurement exercise held by NHSCT. This notice has been placed to alert the Sector of a specific requirement. Any future procurement exercise will be conducted in accordance with the information contained in any final published tender documentation.

Delivery: UK

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record · publisher note attached
Legal basis
CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Past planning notice
Procurement threshold
Unspecified in notice
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Yes (GPA)
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
1 Oct 2025, 11:44 BST
Last source update
1 Oct 2025, 11:44 BST
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-061242
Classification (CPV)
Health and social work services
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05a5b1 Find a Tender

Publisher note: All correspondence or queries in relation to this Early Market Engagement Scoping should be communicated via email account as indicated. This PIN is live from publication up to 3.00 pm on 22 October 2025. Providers are reminded this is not a Call for Tender and this notice has been placed for capacity scoping purposes only.

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

1 Oct 2025 → 22 Oct 2025 · 2 dates
  1. Notice published393 days ago
    1 Oct 2025, 11:44 BST
  2. Tender notice expected372 days ago
    22 Oct 2025, 00:00 BST

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Pipeline notice
Awards (0)
No award published
Contracts (0)
No contract published
Bid statistics
No aggregate bid statistics published

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Northern Health and Social Care Trust

Contracting authorityCentral GovernmentBody governed by public lawHealth Spruce House, Braid Valley Site, Cushendall Road, Ballymena, UK, BT43 6HLContact email

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice.