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Preliminary Market Engagement Counselling Services

Counselling services
Location not published
Published value
£1,200,000
Submission deadline Not published
Lots published1
Procurement Executive Summary
AI & Search Synopsis
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Tenderline Synopsis: THE UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER: "Preliminary Market Engagement Counselling Services". Published status: planning. Published value: £1,200,000. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Contracting AuthorityTHE UNIVERSITY OF ULSTERScope & CategoriesNot publishedSubmission Window
planning
No deadline published
Submission GatewayDirect notice routeLegal Basis & RegimeStandard procurementEstimated Value (exc. VAT)£1,200,000
Bidder Intelligence · Authority Profile: THE UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER
Market Analytics
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Derived from OCDS awards & bid statistics
Published history for THE UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER. These figures describe retained records, not a forecast of bids or a measure of buyer bias.
Published-to-award variance
Not availableInsufficient comparable data
Requires at least 5 comparable procedures
Competition Density
9.5Bids / Report
0% of reports have one bid
Supplier ConcentrationHigh Concentration
Parm AGTop vendor: 100% of attributable value
Payment Terms
Check noticePublished terms
Payment obligations depend on the applicable regime and contract. Consult the official documents.
Coverage: 11 active published awards; 2 bid reports (which may be per lot). Supplier values exclude multi-supplier awards, frameworks and DPS, and use GBP only. They are published award values, not payments. Published-to-award variance compares single-lot, single-award, single-supplier GBP procedures with explicitly non-framework/non-DPS status; increases remain in the average. Unpublished data stays unknown. Awarded suppliers are winners, not all bidders.
Historical Awarded Suppliers With This Authority:
Supplier NameHistoric AwardsAttributable GBP Value
Parm AG1 win£124,800
Procedure terms
Contracting AuthorityTHE UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER
Procedure methodNot published
Procurement categoryNot published
Statusplanning
Framework / DPSNot published
CompetitionNot published
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basisNot published
Tender period startsNot published
Clarification deadlineNot published
Electronic submissionNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Published1 May 2026, 15:07 BST
Last source update1 May 2026, 15:07 BST
Recurring procurementNot published
ClassificationCounselling services
Delivery areaLocation not published
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-06907f
What is being bought
Ulster University will potentially seek to tender for the provision of student/employee counselling services. Ulster University wishes to procure an external student/employee counselling provider to supplement existing sources of internal wellbeing, mental health, disability and financial support to students through our Student and Employee Wellbeing teams across our Belfast, Derry-Londonderry and Coleraine campuses.
What changed
From the official release history
  1. Official notice release published
    1 May 2026, 15:07 BST
  2. Published value updated to £1,200,000
    1 May 2026, 14:51 BST
  3. Status changed to planning
    1 May 2026, 14:51 BST
  4. Official notice release published
    1 May 2026, 14:51 BST
  5. Buyer information updated
    1 May 2026, 14:51 BST
Lots and requirements (1)
Published by the contracting authority
  • Lot 1 · #1
    Individual lot title not published
    planning
    Published valueNot published
    The source published no individual title or description for this lot.
    Contract periodNot published
    EligibilityNot published
    Options / renewalNot published
Timeline
  1. Pipeline notice
    1 May 2026, 15:07 BST
  2. Procedure published
    1 May 2026, 15:07 BST
  3. engagement
    28 May 2026, 23:59 BST · scheduled
    The purpose of this Preliminary Market Engagement Notice (PME) and Request for Information (RFI) is to invite potential Service Providers to express an interest and provide information to assist with the procurement and development of a specification for Counselling Services at Ulster University. The procurement route, duration and type of contract(s) shall be determined following this preliminary market consultation and engagement with market participants. It is this PME which will help to inform the University's strategy for this contract. It is important to note that this PME/RFI is not a call for competition, a pre-qualification questionnaire, part of any pre-qualification/selection process or a current tender opportunity. Potential providers will need to express an interest in any future tender opportunity once a Tender Notice is published. This RFI is intended as an awareness, communication, and information gathering exercise. An expression of interest is no indication of a commitment to participate in the RFI process, nor does it infer any preferential or special status on those individuals and organisations who express an interest in the RFI exercise. The RFI Questionnaire can be accessed by registering with eTendersNI (www.etendersni.gov.uk) and searching for the relevant CfT_6522356.
Commercial outcome and competition
AwardsNo award published
ContractsNo contract published
Bid statisticsNo aggregate bid statistics published
Buyer and organisations in this procedure

THE UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER

Contracting authority GB-COH-RC000726
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Documents (1)
Official links; attachments are not copied
Related procedures (0)
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Planning and rationale
Planning budgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Procedure rationaleNot published