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title: "Pre Tender Market Engagement for the Provision of Independent Advice, Support and Mediation to Children in Need and their Parents and Carers acting on their behalf"
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# Pre Tender Market Engagement for the Provision of Independent Advice, Support and Mediation to Children in Need and their Parents and Carers acting on their behalf

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/pre-tender-market-engagement-for-the-provision-of-independent-advice-support-and-mediation-ocds-h6vhtk-04105d). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Notice summary:** Note this is not a Tender - This Prior Information Notice is being published by the Department of Health, Strategic Performance and Planning Group (SPPG) for the purposes of informing and engaging with potential service providers regarding the upcoming public competition for the provision of Engineering Inspections within Health and Social Care Northern Ireland (HSCNI).

## Key Information
- **Status:** PLANNED (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [Regional Business Services Organisation Procurement and Logistics Service](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/business-services-organisation-procurement-and-logistics-ser-nhs-z7906)
- **Planned Pipeline Value:** £580,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Not published
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Health and social work services
- **Delivery Location:** UKN
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-04105d`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/pre-tender-market-engagement-for-the-provision-of-independent-advice-support-and-mediation-ocds-h6vhtk-04105d#tl-md)

## Description
Note this is not a Tender - This Prior Information Notice is being published by the Department of Health, Strategic Performance and Planning Group (SPPG) for the purposes of informing and engaging with potential service providers regarding the upcoming public competition for the provision of Engineering Inspections within Health and Social Care Northern Ireland (HSCNI). The SPPG wish to engage with potential suppliers on behalf of Health and Social Care for Northern Ireland to obtain a view of the market’s current practices in the following areas: • Provision of Independent Advice, Support and Mediation to Children in Need and their Parents and Carers acting on their behalf. • The introduction of mandatory scored Social Value criteria. • Current practices in regard to ethical procurement, human rights and modern slavery. • Current data protection and cybersecurity arrangements

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** planned
- **CPV codes:** 85000000
- **Delivery regions:** UKN

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F032077-2023)
- **Last Source Update:** 2023-10-31T09:38:29.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-11-07T14:46:13.451Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-04105d