Official UK procurement notice
Preliminary Market Engagement - Intercountry Adoption Services
Authority: Oxfordshire County Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionAdopt Thames Valley requires a comprehensive service for people considering intercountry adoption. The provider will make their services available to residents within the administrative areas of those Councils who are party to ATV (Oxfordshire, Reading, Swindon, Bracknell Forest, Windsor and Maidenhead, West Berkshire and Wokingham) and who are interested in learning about and proceeding with intercountry adoption. The provider will enable a full intercountry adoption service which will ensure that the ATV meets its priorities and duties as regards intercountry adoption, in line with UK adoption policy and legislative requirements. Interested parties are invited to respond to a brief questionnaire to help the Council to establish the identify of interested parties and potential suppliers of the services, to inform the authority's requirements and approach to the procurement, and to inform the design of any future procurement. You do not need to answer all the questions to submit this engagement questionnaire. Any information that you can provide is of value to us. This is not the beginning of a Tender exercise. Your feedback as a provider will not have a bearing on any future Tender submissions. You will not be disadvantaged if you choose not to respond to this engagement questionnaire, however it will be helpful to understand your views early in the design process, so we encourage you to respond as fully as you able to.
CPV: Welfare services for children and young people
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewalPublished value£22,000
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Below threshold - open competition
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Past planning notice
- Procurement threshold
- Below threshold
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 18 Jun 2025, 16:13 BST
- Last source update
- 2 Jul 2025, 12:08 BST
- Authority reference
I-4458- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-036751- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-054f57Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Requests to participate (first stage)
- 23 Sept 2025, 09:00 BST
- Submission deadline
- 23 Sept 2025, 09:00 BST
- Clarification deadline
- 23 Sept 2025, 09:00 BST
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
Timeline
18 Jun 2025 → 1 Apr 2026 · 7 dates- Planning notice published18 Jun 2025, 16:13 BST
- Latest notice published2 Jul 2025, 12:08 BST
- Tender notice expected8 Aug 2025, 23:59 BST
- Market engagement8 Aug 2025, 23:59 BST
Interested parties are invited to respond to a brief questionnaire to help the Council to establish the identify of interested parties and potential suppliers of the services, to inform the authority's requirements and approach to the procurement, and to inform the design of any future procurement. You do not need to answer all the questions to submit this engagement questionnaire. Any information that you can provide is of value to us. This is not the beginning of a Tender exercise. Your feedback as a provider will not have a bearing on any future Tender submissions. You will not be disadvantaged if you choose not to respond to this engagement questionnaire, however it will be helpful to understand your views early in the design process, so we encourage you to respond as fully as you able to.
- Clarification questions by400 days ago23 Sept 2025, 09:00 BST
- Submission deadline400 days ago23 Sept 2025, 09:00 BST
- Contract starts210 days ago1 Apr 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
3 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 18 Jun 2025- Planned procurement notice published18 Jun 2025, 16:13 BSTUK3
- Preliminary market engagement notice published2 Jul 2025, 12:08 BSTUK2
- Published value updated to £110,0002 Jul 2025, 12:08 BSTwas £22,000
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 (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Planned procurement notice Planned procurement notice on Find a Tender