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General and Specialist Information and Advice Services - MARKET ENGAGEMENT
Forecast: a planned procurement that is not yet at tender stage.
01/ The notice
Key facts
- Value
- £4,000,000Estimated value stated in the notice
- Deadline (UK time)
- No open deadlineA deadline does not apply to this forecast notice.
- Published
- 22 Oct 2025
- Region
- Not stated
02/ The brief
What the notice says
Not fully read: this is the notice text; attached documents are not read.
The General and Specialist Information and Advice contract is made up of the following services:
High Street: Provides both general and specialist advice, from form filling to legal representation (where appropriate).
Health: Provides a general information and advice service that supports, informs, and enables clients to access information that is relevant to their individual needs.
Care Act: Provides a social care general information and advice service that supports, informs, and enables clients to access information that is relevant to their individual needs. This service forms part of the council's statutory duty under the Care Act 2014 to provide information and advice.
Palliative Care: Financial advice and support to patients identified as being in the last year of life. This may also extend to family members/carers during the bereavement phase.
Disabled Children: Provide specialist benefits advice for Salford families with a disabled child receiving treatment at Pendleton Gateway and other appropriate venues in Salford. This advice may cover welfare benefits as a specialism, and general advice about employment, debt, housing, health and community care.
Expectant families: Provide specialist advice about maternity benefits and maternity and paternity employments rights to expectant families, including teenagers, throughout the pregnancy in appropriate settings for Salford patients.
03/ Classification
CPV codes
Common Procurement Vocabulary codes, exactly as the notice lists them. No descriptions are added here.
- 85320000
04/ History
Releases of this notice
4 releases held, oldest first. Dates are UK time.
- 22 Oct 2025Planning notice
Planning notice published 22 October 2025.
Release 067302-2025
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab) - 4 Feb 2026Planning notice
Planning notice published 4 February 2026. The notice text changed; the source gives no change note.
Release 010057-2026
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab) - 18 Mar 2026Notice
Notice published 18 March 2026. The source does not state what changed.
Release 024757-2026
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab) - 19 Mar 2026Notice
Notice published 19 March 2026. The notice text changed; the source gives no change note.
Release 025321-2026
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab)
05/ Limits
What the source does not tell us
- None recorded for the fields above. Attached documents are not read, so this is not a full account of the tender.
06/ Questions
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- Reference
- ocds-h6vhtk-05d131
- Source
- Find a Tender
- Stage
- planning · Planning
- Last verified
- Sun 5 Apr 2026, 20:57 BST
- Read at
- Thu 29 Oct 2026, 05:19 GMT
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