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      "contactPoint": {
        "email": "procurement_enquiries@ulster.ac.uk"
      }
    }
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  "language": "en",
  "planning": {
    "documents": [
      {
        "id": "078867-2025",
        "url": "https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/078867-2025",
        "format": "text/html",
        "noticeType": "UK2",
        "description": "Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender",
        "documentType": "marketEngagementNotice",
        "datePublished": "2025-12-02T12:18:04Z"
      }
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    "milestones": [
      {
        "id": "engagement",
        "type": "engagement",
        "status": "met",
        "dateMet": "2025-10-10T00:00:00+01:00",
        "description": "The Preliminary Market Engagement for this requirement has now been concluded. A Request for Information (RFI) was issued on eSourcingNI on 26-Sep-25 under Project Code: Project_28878 / RFI Ref: PQQ_4683 which closed on 10-Oct-25.\n10 completed PME responses were received and the University opted to not follow up with any further engagement meetings / demonstrations due to sufficient information received from respondents following a short clarification period.  \nF01: Prior information notice (prior information only) \nNotice identifier: 2025/S 000-060231 \nProcurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-05a369 \nThe University initially believed this procurement was going to be below threshold but following indicative costs received in PME responses, we now believe this will be above threshold hence why this PME notice is retrospective. \nIt is anticipated that the resulting tender competition will be published via eTendersNI under CFT ID 6282386 in early 2026, however this is subject to change along with estimated tender publication date and contract start & end dates stated in this PME notice. "
      }
    ]
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  "initiationType": "tender"
}