HCC - 01/25 - Pre-Procurement Market Engagement - Notification of forthcoming Procurement for Family Centre Services - Public Health Nursing

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Hertfordshire County Council is intending to carry out a procurement in relation to the provision of a 0- 19 years (up to 25 for young people with SEND) Public Health Nursing Service. Therefore, the Council has published this Prior Information Notice ("PIN") to alert potentially interested organisations with appropriate expertise and relevant experience of this potential opportunity and to encourage organisations to register on the Councils etendering portal https://in-tendhost.co.uk/supplyhertfordshire/aspx/Home in preparation. Lot 1: This is with regards to a forthcoming procurement opportunity within Hertfordshire for the delivery of an integrated 0 to 19 (up to 25 for Care Leavers and SEND young people) Public Health Nursing Service. The Public Health Nursing service will be expected to provide integrated universal, targeted and specialist support for infants, children, young people and families working in an integrated manner with the Family Support Service under the umbrella brand of the ‘Hertfordshire Family Centre Service’(HFCS). TimescalesIt is currently anticipated that the Council will commence a procurement process in March 2025. Suppliers interested in this opportunity should note that the contract will start on 1st October with a mobilisation period of 1st October - 31st March 2026, with the service going live as of 1st April 2026, for a further three years and 8 months, until 31st December 2029.Contract awarded: 1st October 2025Mobilisation: 1st October 2025 – 31st March 2026Contract starts and Go live: by no later 1st April 2026Registering your Interest for this procurement :In order to apply for this procurement opportunity please could the relevant person register on In-Tend. Please follow the stages below:As a first stage please register on Supply Hertfordshire Portal: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/supplyhertfordshire/aspx/Home Why?This portal is run by In-Tend so it is important that you take a moment to make sure that you are registered on the right portal and that your details are up to date.• In order to receive alerts or be invited for new contract opportunities, we require you to register for free on the portal which can be found at https://in-tendhost.co.uk/supplyhertfordshire/aspx/Home • It is important that you indicate which business categories your organisation operates in, in order for you to receive email alerts when opportunities in those categories are advertised and to be available as a supplier in those categories. It will only take a few minutes.Suggested categories can be for this procurement:151510 - Healthcare - Public Health151514 - Healthcare - Public Health - Specialist Services151515 - Healthcare - Public Health - Not Elsewhere Classified310000 - Healthcare311600 - Healthcare - Services319999 - Healthcare - Not Elsewhere ClassifiedBy registering on this portal, you have the potential to do business with the District Councils in Hertfordshire as well. When you are registered then as one of our suppliers, we need to make sure you receive our e-mail notifications. To ensure our e-mails from the e-Tendering system reach your inbox please add our e-mail domain supplyhertfordshire@in-tendorganiser.co.uk to your safe senders and check your spam filter settings.Need Help:• The Supply Hertfordshire portal is powered by the In-Tend system and as such it may look familiar as the layout follows the look and feel of other portals nationwide • We have provided a dedicated supplier guide located on the e-Tendering site or by clicking the following linkhttps://in-tendhost.co.uk/supplyhertfordshire/aspx/BuyerProfiles