Official UK procurement notice
Early Market Engagement - Learning Disability Supported Living Accommodation in the preferred areas of Causeway, Ballymena and Antrim areas but the Trust will consider other areas as secondary options.
Authority: Northern Health and Social Care Trust (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThis is a Prior Information Notice (PIN) by way of an Early Market Engagement scoping for the NHSCT to ascertain potential current capacity and potential future capacity in the market for the provision of a bespoke single occupancy Learning Disability Supported Living Accommodation for a Service User with complex behaviors in the preferred areas of Causeway, Ballymena or Antrim areas but the Trust will consider other areas as secondary options.
CPV: Health and social work services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1This is a PIN by the NHSCT for an Early Market Engagement (NOT a Call for Tender) to…Planned
This is a PIN by the NHSCT for an Early Market Engagement (NOT a Call for Tender) to ascertain potential current capacity in the market AND potential future capacity for the provision of bespoke single occupancy Learning Disability Supported Living Accommodation for a complex service user who presents with challenging behaviour. Given complexity, care must be provided in a 24/7 bespoke facility with anticipated 2:1 staffing at all times with 2 staff on sleep over due to challenging behaviour.
Accommodation in the preferred areas of Causeway, Ballymena or Antrim areas but the Trust will consider other areas as secondary options.
The NHSCT is announcing this PIN as it wishes to meet and discuss current and future capacity with potential providers interested in the delivery of the service. Further more specific details on this service would be provided at these meetings. Additional information: This is not a Call for Tender and there is no guarantee any procurement process will be run. Any interest shown does not constitute a commitment to participate in a procurement exercise. Failure to show interest does not restrict providers from participating in any future procurement exercise. This notice has been placed for advertising purposes only. Any procurement exercise will be conducted in accordance with the information contained in any final published tender documentation.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Past planning notice
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 1 Jul 2025, 15:02 BST
- Last source update
- 1 Jul 2025, 15:02 BST
- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-036468- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0556dcFind a Tender
Publisher note: All correspondence or queries in relation to this Early Market Engagement Scoping should be communicated via email account as indicated. This PIN is live from publication up to 3.00 pm on 16 July 2025. Providers are reminded this is not a Call for Tender and this notice has been placed for capacity scoping purposes only.
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- —
Timeline
1 Jul 2025 → 16 Jul 2025 · 2 dates- Notice published1 Jul 2025, 15:02 BST
- Tender notice expected16 Jul 2025, 00:00 BST
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
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.