Official UK procurement notice
Racial Trauma Support Service
Authority: Liverpool City Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionLiverpool City Council is committed to becoming an actively anti-racist organisation and to creating a workplace where all employees feel safe, valued, respected and able to thrive.
Feedback from employees and the Council’s wider anti-racism engagement has identified a need for specialist support for colleagues affected by racism, racial discrimination, microaggressions and cumulative racial trauma. The Council is therefore undertaking soft market testing to explore independent, confidential, culturally competent and trauma-informed support that employees can access whether or not they pursue a formal complaint.
The exercise will help the Council understand market capability, potential delivery models and indicative costs. It is being conducted for information-gathering purposes only and does not constitute a tender or commitment to procure.
CPV: Counselling services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Lot 1Planned
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
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 29 Sept 2026, 10:14 BST
- Last source update
- 29 Sept 2026, 10:14 BST
- Authority reference
DN830720- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-077c13
How it was run
- Submission deadline
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Timeline
3 published dates · Europe/London- Planning notice publishedjust passed29 Sept 2026, 10:14 BST
- Market engagementin 24 days23 Oct 2026, 00:59 BST
Liverpool City Council is undertaking preliminary market engagement to understand the market’s capability to provide a specialist racial trauma support service for employees. The engagement will explore potential delivery models, supplier capacity, practitioner expertise, indicative costs and more…
options for a future procurement. The engagement will be conducted electronically through ProContract. No supplier events are currently planned. Interested organisations should register on ProContract, locate opportunity DN830720, download the soft market testing document and submit their completed response by the deadline shown on the opportunity. Clarification questions must be submitted through the ProContract messaging facility. Participation is voluntary and responses will be used for information-gathering purposes only. Participation will not be formally evaluated and will not confer any advantage or disadvantage in any future procurement. This engagement does not constitute a tender and does not commit the Council to undertake a subsequent procurement exercise. - Contract startsin 94 days1 Jan 2027, 00:00 GMT
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published29 Sept 2026, 10:14 BSTUK2
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