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Published 4 Nov 2021, 19:15 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

Healthy Happy Minds' Pilot to Support Therapeutic & Counselling Services in Primary Schools 2021/22

Official notice

Authority: Education Authority (Education)

Services
Planned pipeline value£40,000,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 8 Nov 2021from the planned procurement notice

What is being bought

Published requirement description

A framework for Healthy Happy Minds' Pilot to Support Therapeutic & Counselling Services in Primary Schools 2021/22 is being established to allow all primary schools and their students in Northern Ireland access to a range of support services. The range of services expected to be available to each school through the framework includes but is not limited to:

a. Counselling

b. Play Therapy

c. Drama Therapy

d. Music Therapy

e. Art Therapy

f. Equine Assisted Therapy & Learning

Please note than no response is required for this Prior Information Notice (PIN). All communications regarding the release of tender documents will be managed through eTendersNI.

CPV: Counselling · Counselling services · Guidance and counselling services · Primary education services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1This notice is for prior information only and not a call for competitionPlanned

This notice is for prior information only and not a call for competition.

The Education Authority (EA) is currently preparing to initiate a procurement process to establish a Framework Agreement for Healthy Happy Minds' Pilot to Support Therapeutic & Counselling Services in Primary Schools 2021/22.

This framework is led by the Northern Ireland Education Authority (“EA”) and is open to the EA, including NI educational bodies and at some point, during the life of the Framework these bodies may wish to utilise the agreement and should have access, at any point, with the permission of EA. This agreement is not intended to replace any current agreements that participating or non-participating institutions may already have in place.

It is anticipated that the Contract Notice will be issued 8th November 2021.

Delivery: Northern Ireland · Northern Ireland

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
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
4 Nov 2021, 19:15 GMT
Last source update
4 Nov 2021, 19:15 GMT
FTS notice number
2021/S 000-027751
Classification (CPV)
CounsellingCounselling servicesGuidance and counselling servicesPrimary education services
Delivery area
Northern Ireland (UKN)
Official registry OCID
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How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

4 Nov 2021 → 8 Nov 2021 · 2 dates
  1. Notice published
    4 Nov 2021, 19:15 GMT
  2. Tender notice expected
    8 Nov 2021

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

Education Authority

Contracting authorityEducationBody governed by public lawEducation Ballee Road West, Ballymena, UK, BT42 2HSContact name, email

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice.