Official UK procurement notice
ES0128-4 - DNA and Drug & Alcohol Testing
Authority: Wiltshire Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionDNA testing is required to establish paternity when exploring safe and appropriate care options for children and young people within the child protection system and any provider must be Ministry of Justice Accredited.
Drug and alcohol testing is used to support social care to establish whether a child or young person's caring environment is safe and meeting their physical and emotional needs. Best practice guidance suggests that providers of drug and alcohol testing should be UKAS (United Kingdom Accreditation Service) accredited to the international quality standard ISO 17025 (2017 version).
CPV: Laboratory services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewal
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Past planning notice
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 9 May 2025, 09:09 BST
- Last source update
- 14 May 2025, 15:07 BST
- Authority reference
ES0128-4- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-021362- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-050f54Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
9 May 2025 → 1 Oct 2025 · 4 dates- Planning notice published9 May 2025, 09:09 BST
- Latest notice published14 May 2025, 15:07 BST
- Market engagement16 May 2025, 23:59 BST
Pre Market Engagement event to be held over Microsoft Teams on Monday 19th May from 12noon to 1p.m..
This event will be to introduce the service we want to commission and to ask providers of any barriers that stop them tendering for the service.
There will be opportunity for providers to ask questions following a short presentation by the commissioner of the service.
There will also be opportunity to ask the Wiltshire procurement colleague any questions in relation to the procurement route for this service.
If you would like to attend this event please respond to this notice in the "Messages" section of ProContract, by 17:00hrs on Friday 16th May, advising who will be attending from your organisation. We would welcome up to two representatives from each organisation wishing to attend. A Microsoft Teams invitation will be sent to each representative, so please provide an e-mail address!
We look forward to hearing from you.
- Contract starts392 days ago1 Oct 2025, 00:00 BST
Notice history
3 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 9 May 2025- Preliminary market engagement notice published9 May 2025, 09:09 BSTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published12 May 2025, 10:50 BSTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published14 May 2025, 15:07 BSTUK2
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
Official documents & specifications (3)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender