Market Engagement - All Age Advocacy Services

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Southend-on-Sea City Council is seeking to engage with the market to gain an understanding of the capacity and appetite to deliver its All Age Advocacy service from 1st April 2025. This exercise is to inform the Council in its consideration of options for the future service model and provision of the all-age Advocacy service. This is not a call for competition. As such any future procurement process will be compliant with the Public Contract Regulations (2015 (updated 2016)). This includes but is not limited to advertising and fair treatment of economic operators, regardless of their involvement in this Market Engagement. The issuing of this notice and the carrying out of this Market Engagement does not commit the Council to commencing any related procurement process or to a single means of procurement. The Council is interested to understand the capacity of the market to be able to bid on this opportunity should it be advertised in October / November 2024. The Council is looking to award the contract in January 2025. The further documentation relating to this notice and the very simple written submission required of any organisation looking to take part in this market engagement exercise is attached to this notice. The written confirmation of your company's interest in taking part in this process and its response to the Market Engagement Question should be returned to the Council via an email to strategiccommissioning@southend.gov.uk The deadline for submission of expression of interests in regard this market engagement is: 5pm on Friday 27th September 2024.

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