Official UK procurement notice
Market Engagement - Learning Disability Provision in the Residential, Nursing and Supported Living Sector - South Eastern Trust in Northern Ireland
Authority: South Eastern Health & Social Care Trust (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionTitle: Market Engagement - Learning Disability Provision in the Residential, Nursing and Supported Living Sector - South Eastern Trust in Northern Ireland
Recent changes regarding capacity provision for Learning Disability placements in residential, nursing and supported living environments in the South Eastern Trust has resulted in pressures being placed on Trust services. As a result the South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust are developing plans for the future of this provision across our Trust area and would like to talk to Learning Disability providers within the Northern Ireland market and potential new providers to the Northern Ireland market, to assist the Trust in developing future service provision.
The purpose of this Market Engagement is to gauge market interest, invite discussion on how best to develop these services including innovative approaches that could be taken.
If your organisation is interested, please email your expression of interest to
before 3pm on Friday 24th April 2026 and include the following:
- Organisation Name;
- Organisation Web address;
- Brief description of services you currently provide including where these services are delivered;
- Name, title and contact details for Organisation representatives that will attend discussions with the Trust (max 2 representatives).
Please include above title in your response.
Meetings with interested providers will be arranged for 30th April 2026 in the Trust area, alternatively conference calls can be arranged. Please indicate whether a meeting or conference call is preferable. Details of the venue, time of the meeting or call will be confirmed by return email.
See www.southeasterntrust.hscni.net ↗ for further details regarding the Trust.
Note - this is not a Call for Tender and there is no guarantee a procurement process will be run. Any interest shown does not constitute a commitment to participate in a procurement exercise. Failure to show interest does not restrict providers from participating in any future procurement exercise.
CPV: Other community, social and personal services
How this dynamic market works
From the published notice- Type
- Dynamic market
- Market period
- 11 mo from 30 Apr 2026
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedWhat it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
- “Market Engagement - Learning Disability Provision in the Residential,…” is a dynamic market: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
Competition for Other community, social and personal services (CPV 98), and who usually turns up
South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust has too little published record in this market to describe on its own. Published market evidence for the same work stands beside whatever it has. This notice is a framework or DPS, so only frameworks and DPS are compared. Whole-market view: Other community, social and personal services (CPV 98) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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How often small and medium firms win.
Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.
The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.
Across this market, small firms won 77% of awards with a known supplier size.
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How often local firms win similar work.
Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.
Here, local means the winner is registered in the region where that contract was delivered.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Across this market, 64% of winners were registered in the delivery region.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards were announced within 67 days of the bid deadline.
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How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.
Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.
The market share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
Across this market, at least 21% of awarded procurements had no recorded rival.
How many bids did past lots attract?
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How many bids past lots received.
Each colour is a bid-count range. Only competed lots with a published count are included.
Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid19%
2–331%
4–616%
7+34%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
Each colour shows awards below, close to or above the published estimate, one lot at a time.
On a framework or DPS, prices are agreed when work is called off.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Not comparable on a framework or DPS. The notice sets up a supplier panel and a ceiling value; what the work actually costs is agreed later, on each call-off or mini-competition, and those publish as contract notices of their own. The award-vs-estimate record of this market therefore sits on the call-offs; this page shows it on the contracts, not on the panel that frames them.
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list
Lot #1No real estimate
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How many bids this lot may attract.
The forecast uses similar past competitions. The bar shows either that forecast or past bid counts; the line below says which.
Each lot shows its own forecast based on its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative. The bar shows 125 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid19%
2–331%
4–616%
7+34%
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Where the award price may land.
The forecast uses similar awards and the buyer’s estimate. The band covers the middle half of likely prices.
No comparable awards for this lot yet.
A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.
Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
Who could compete for this lot? i
Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
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Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.
About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
- Two views, kept apart. The authority’s own track record and the wider market for the same kind of work sit side by side and are never mixed. Where the local picture is too thin, a figure widens to a broader market and says which one it used.
- Forecasts are labelled. The price forecast and its range, possible competitors and the earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards: not published facts, not win chances and not price advice. Official notices do not say who is bidding.
- Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.
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
- Dynamic market
- Who may use this agreement
- Any qualifying supplier may apply while the market is open
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 10 Apr 2026, 13:17 BST
- Last source update
- 10 Apr 2026, 13:17 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-032831- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-068004Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Admission period ends
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Timeline
10 Apr 2026 → 30 Apr 2026 · 3 dates- Planning notice published193 days ago10 Apr 2026, 13:17 BST
- Market engagement179 days ago24 Apr 2026, 23:59 BST
The purpose of this Market Engagement is to gauge market interest, invite discussion on how best to develop these services including innovative approaches that could be taken.
If your organisation is interested, please email your expression of interest to
before 3pm on Friday 24th April 2026 and include the following:
- Organisation Name;
- Organisation Web address;
- Brief description of services you currently provide including where these services are delivered;
- Name, title and contact details for Organisation representatives that will attend discussions with the Trust (max 2 representatives).
Please include above title in your response.
Meetings with interested providers will be arranged for 30th April 2026 in the Trust area, alternatively conference calls can be arranged. Please indicate whether a meeting or conference call is preferable. Details of the venue, time of the meeting or call will be confirmed by return email.
- Contract starts174 days ago30 Apr 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published10 Apr 2026, 13:17 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 (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender