Official UK procurement notice
Healthy Schools and Early Years Services
Authority: Liverpool City Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionLiverpool City Council is undertaking preliminary market engagement to inform the development of the proposed Healthy Schools and Early Years Programme. The programme will provide a structured whole setting approach that supports the physical, emotional, and social wellbeing of students, teachers, staff and parents. The programme is intended to provide coordinated and free, comprehensive and accessible health and wellbeing offer that will be responsive to new and emerging needs. It will support both settings and providers to increase access, choice and reduce duplication and will ensure that the local offer is based on the best possible evidence.
The Council is therefore exploring a model that focuses on coordination, partnership working and system leadership, bringing together and maximising the impact of existing services rather than replacing them. The intention is to create a single, coherent offer that helps schools, early years settings and alternative provision settings access appropriate support, identify local needs and improve health and wellbeing outcomes.
The Council is seeking to engage with organisations that have experience of coordinating complex multi-agency services, facilitating partnership working and supporting whole-system approaches to health improvement, prevention and early intervention.
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Feedback gathered through this engagement will help inform the future service specification, delivery model and procurement approach.
CPV: Community health services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Lot 1PlannedRenewal
- Extensions
- Extension options published
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage — how this market runs before the tender is published
How Liverpool City Council buys Social services (CPV 8532) — and who usually turns up
Liverpool City Council’s own published record, next to the North West England market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Social services (CPV 8532) →
How the contest usually goes
Left: this authority. Right: the market where the work is delivered. Bids and award-vs-estimate pairs are per lot, from contested contracts only — direct awards (including PA 2023 transparency notices) report one bid by definition and are left out. On Procurement Act 2023 notices the count is the tenders assessed at the final stage, not every submission received; pairs compare like with like (VAT-exclusive, or VAT-inclusive on both sides). Empty means nothing was published, not filled in from elsewhere.
Liverpool City Council
contract notices in 36 months: 7 in CPV 8532 · 39 in division 85 (4 direct) · 123 in all categories (18 direct)
North West England · Social services (CPV 8532)
contract notices delivered in North West England in 36 months: 158 in CPV 8532 (62 contested) · 2,299 in division 85 (928 contested)
robust · n=18 Awards in Liverpool City Council (division 85, n=18 pairs) land a median at estimate: on this notice’s £2,500,000 that is about £2,500,000. Context for a bid, not a recommended price.
Method and what to read with care
- Two columns, no blending. The authority column walks its own record only: notices in the 4-digit class, then the 2-digit division, then all categories (36 months, per lot, contested only), and as a last resort its 24-month row across all categories (per lot, contested contract notices). The market column is the notice’s primary delivery ITL1 × the same class, then division (36 months). Nothing is filled from the UK-wide class; an empty tile means the source published nothing usable.
- Per lot, contested only. Find a Tender publishes bid counts per lot; a seven-lot tender is seven contests. Procedures awarded without competition (limited / direct) are excluded from bids, price pairs and decision days — they report one bid by definition. Frameworks and DPS are a separate population from contracts (6–7 bids per lot against 2–4) and only the notice’s own kind is shown.
- Coverage. Roughly 40 % of notices publish a bid count; about half publish an ITL1 delivery location, so the market column reads the authority’s registered region when the notice has none (labelled). Award-vs-estimate pairs need a lot estimate, one active award on the lot, one canonical supplier and a gap under 60 %; about 30 % of pairs are exact matches (the buyer published the award at the estimate). n is on every figure; below 3 the tile is muted, never hidden.
- Pounds. The expected award applies the authority’s median movement (or the region’s, when the authority has fewer than 3 pairs) to this notice’s estimate; the middle half uses the region’s quartiles. A multi-lot notice publishes an envelope, so the movement is applied per lot, never to the total. A benchmark, not a recommended price.
- “Match” and “relevance” are model scores from the nightly matcher, not published facts. Find a Tender does not publish who is bidding. Never shown: contact details, payment behaviour, or a recommended price.
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
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- 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
- 21 Sept 2026, 16:34 BST
- Last source update
- 21 Sept 2026, 16:34 BST
- Authority reference
DN830185- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0776d1
How it was run
- Submission deadline
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Timeline
4 published dates · Europe/London- Planning notice publishedearlier today21 Sept 2026, 16:34 BST
- Market engagementin 8 days30 Sept 2026, 00:59 BST
Liverpool City Council is undertaking preliminary market engagement to inform the development of the proposed Healthy Schools and Early Years Programme. The programme is intended to provide a coordinated, citywide approach to health and wellbeing by bringing together, aligning and maximising the more…
impact of existing provision rather than replacing or duplicating services. The objectives of the engagement are to: Test market capacity, capability and appetite. Explore potential delivery models and partnership approaches. Seek feedback on the proposed service scope and outcomes. Identify opportunities for innovation and continuous improvement. Inform the future procurement strategy and service specification. Supplier Engagement Event Date: Tuesday 29 September 2026 Time: 09:30 Location: Microsoft Teams Suppliers wishing to participate should register their interest via The Chest procurement portal: https://www.the-chest.org.uk Then click "Current Opportunities" and search reference DN830185. A market engagement questionnaire will also be issued through The Chest procurement portal. Suppliers are encouraged to attend the engagement event and complete the questionnaire to provide feedback on the proposed model, delivery considerations and procurement approach. The closing date for responses to the questionnaire is Monday 28 September 2026 at 1:00pm. Any clarification questions relating to this market engagement exercise should be submitted via the messaging facility within The Chest procurement portal no later than 25 September 2026. Responses to clarification questions will be shared through the portal where appropriate. This engagement exercise is being conducted solely for information-gathering purposes and to inform service development. Participation will not confer any advantage or disadvantage in any future procurement process, and the Council reserves the right to amend, pause or discontinue its plans following the outcome of market engagement. - Tender notice expectedin 19 days11 Oct 2026, 00:59 BST
- Contract startsin 191 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 published21 Sept 2026, 16:34 BSTUK2
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
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