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title: "Proposed strategic partnership delivery of services within the Children’s and Families Directorate"
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# Proposed strategic partnership delivery of services within the Children’s and Families Directorate

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/proposed-strategic-partnership-delivery-of-services-within-the-children-s-and-families-dir-ocds-h6vhtk-03768b). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Birmingham City Council: "Proposed strategic partnership delivery of services within the Children’s and Families Directorate". Published status: planned. Planned Pipeline Value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** PLANNED (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [Birmingham City Council](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/birmingham-city-council-ons-e08000025)
- **Planned Pipeline Value:** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Not published
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Pre-school education services
- **Delivery Location:** UKG31
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-03768b`

## 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/proposed-strategic-partnership-delivery-of-services-within-the-children-s-and-families-dir-ocds-h6vhtk-03768b#tl-md)

## Description
Birmingham City Council is interested in assessing the market to establish the delivery of the following services within the Children’s and Families directorate with a single strategic partner:•	Special schools (including Social and emotional mental health needs and for neuro diverse children and young people)•	Children’s homes – including secure homes or schools•	Family learning and employment services, including developing childcare provision or access to provision•	Services for vulnerable young people, children, and familiesBirmingham City Council wishes to invite suppliers to submit responses in regards this Soft Market Testing (SMT) exercise for a Proposed service delivery.  Please note this soft market testing exercise has been issued as an information seeking exercise and is not part of a procurement process. There is no guarantee of any procurement activity taking place following this exercise

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** planned

- **Delivery regions:** UKG

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F029261-2022)
- **Last Source Update:** 2022-10-18T08:12:30.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-29T14:41:27.459Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-03768b