Life Opportunities for Adults With Additional Needs

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  "date": "2026-06-17T14:13:26+01:00",
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    "name": "Norfolk County Council"
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    "title": "Life Opportunities for Adults With Additional Needs",
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    "description": "There are no tender documents at this stage - this is purely to allow expressions of interest and to inform all of market engagement.\nNorfolk County Council intends to procure a new framework to deliver day opportunities (both hub-based and community/outreach) for approximately 2,170 adults with additional needs arising from mental health conditions, learning disabilities, autism, and/or physical disabilities. This will supersede all previous contractual arrangements for Day Services/Life Opportunities for these groups including the existing Life Opportunities Framework, introducing a single framework for adults with additional needs delivering across all specialisms. \nScope of the Future Procurement\nThe forthcoming framework, Life Opportunities for Adults With Additional Needs, will:\n•\tCover community opportunities and support for adults (18+) with additional needs primarily due to mental health conditions, learning disabilities, autism, and/or physical disabilities.\n•\tInclude hub-based day opportunities and outreach‑based delivery. \n•\tFocus on outcomes related to wellbeing, independent living skills, community connection and employment support.\n•\tAlign costs across the market for similar delivery through built in price mechanisms.\n•\tReplace session-based funding with a person‑centred hourly payment model. \n•\tContain robust terms and conditions to ensure quality and safeguard service users.\nThis framework will not include domiciliary care or older people’s day services, which are commissioned separately.",
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      "id": "GB-PPON-PDYH-3246-XWTR",
      "name": "Norfolk County Council",
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        "country": "GB",
        "locality": "Norwich",
        "postalCode": "NR1 2DH",
        "countryName": "United Kingdom",
        "streetAddress": "County Hall, Martineau Lane"
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        "id": "057155-2026",
        "url": "https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/057155-2026",
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        "description": "Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender",
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        "datePublished": "2026-06-17T14:13:26+01:00"
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        "dueDate": "2026-07-09T23:59:59+01:00",
        "description": "This is a Preliminary Market Engagement Notice (PMEN) for information purposes only. It is not a formal invitation to tender. You will need to respond to the tender notice ( when it is issued) in order to be considered for these contracts. \nThe purpose of this PMEN is to maximise transparency and competition for the upcoming tender notice. All details in this PMEN are subject to being updated or changed in the tender notice. We are publishing this notice to share engagement outputs and to ensure as wider audience as possible are aware and informed of Norfolk County Council's (NCC) intentions. \nEngagement with current providers has been taking place and the notes and reports from these conversations is available on the clarification tab on in-tend. \nThese documents can be viewed by registering on the NCC in-tend portal, expressing an interest in this tender. The PMEN fulfils the requirement for a Preliminary Market. Engagement Notice to be issued under the Procurement Act 2023. \nTender activity is planned for the second half of 2026, with the tender due to open in late summer/early autumn and contract awards in late 2026/early 2027.\nThe Council will hold a market engagement webinar on 9 July 2026 for all prospective providers to attend for further information. If you wish to attend the market engagement planned for 9 July 2026  please register on in-tend and express an interest in this project.  Please then use the correspondence facility to send the email addresses of those individuals who wish to attend.  The meeting will be carried out on Teams. \nThis procurement will be managed electronically via the Council`s e-procurement system. To participate in this procurement and gain access to documents when they are available, applicants must first be registered on the system at https://in-tendhost.co.uk/norfolkcc. Full instructions for registration and use of the system can be found at https://intendhost.co.uk/norfolkcc/aspx/BuyerProfiles. Once registered you will be able to see the procurement project under the `tenders` section and `express an interest` in this tender. If you encounter any difficulties whilst using the system you can contact the In-tend support team by phoning +44 8442728810 or e-mailing support@in-tend.co.uk."
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