Find a TenderPast planning noticePreliminary market engagement notice
Published 1 Oct 2025, 17:08 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Preliminary Market Engagement Youth Vaping and Smoking Cessation Service

Official notice

Authority: Derbyshire County Council (Local council)

ServicesAbove thresholdSME suitableVCSE suitable
Planned pipeline valueValue not publishedpipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected Date not publishedfrom the planned procurement notice
Contract term 4 yrsends 31 Aug 2030 · starts 1 Sept 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The Council is seeking to engage with organisations to gather information and explore potential solutions to achieve the Youth Vaping and Smoking Cessation objectives.

This Preliminary Market Engagement Exercise (PME) is being undertaken to seek ideas and information through written responses via a questionnaire from interested organisations to:

Gauge the level of interest in delivering services for Youth Vaping and Smoking Cessation Service

Better understand the solutions and services that are available to inform service design and specification development.

Explore how the different delivery options and approaches could be delivered

Consider the likely costs.

Please note: The contract start and end dates are indicative only.

CPV: Health and social work services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Planned 4 yrsSMEVCSE
Contract period: 1 Sept 2026 – 31 Aug 2030 (4 yrs)
Delivery: East MidlandsEligibility: SME eligibleVCSE eligible

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Past planning notice
Procurement threshold
Above threshold (FTS publication)
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
1 Oct 2025, 17:08 BST
Last source update
1 Oct 2025, 17:08 BST
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-061493
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Health and social work services
Delivery area
East Midlands (UKF1)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05a63f Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

1 Oct 2025 → 1 Sept 2026 · 3 dates
  1. Planning notice published395 days ago
    1 Oct 2025, 17:08 BST
  2. Market engagement381 days ago
    15 Oct 2025, 23:59 BST

    The Soft Market information can be accessed via the following link: procontract.due-north.com/Advert ↗

    Please complete the online questionnaire which can be accessed via the following link: forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx ↗

    or within the Soft Market information document.

    The deadline for completion of the questionnaire is 14:00 on Wednesday 15/10/2025

  3. Contract starts61 days ago
    1 Sept 2026, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    1 Oct 2025, 17:08 BST
    UK2

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

Derbyshire County Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PWZQ-2162-JJQL County Hall, Matlock, East Midlands, DE4 3AGContact email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure