Health and social work services

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Hertfordshire County Council (the ‘Council’) is carrying out pre-procurement market engagement for the Provision of Learning Opportunities, Products and Interventions on behalf of the Workforce Development and Partnership Team (WDPT). The WDPT want to commission a Multi-Provider Framework to provide learning opportunities, products and interventions for Adult Health and Social Care organisations that provide care and support to the residents of Hertfordshire. It is anticipated that this exercise will result in an increased ability to provide versatile learning opportunities, products and interventions via a wide range of sources from large training providers to Small to Medium Enterprises (SMEs) alike. Please log in or register with www.supplyhertfordshire.uk in order to review the full suite of documentation for this engagement exercise with the market. The purpose of the Council's pre-procurement market engagement process is to allow and enable potentially interested organisations with appropriate expertise and relevant experience to: — Outline and generate initial views/ideas around the outcomes, scope and the potential procurement strategy (i.e. with no commitment to themselves or the Council). — Engage with the Council to understand its challenges, intentions and desired Outcomes. — Provide informal input to help shape or refine the Council's technical requirements. — Inform the Council of current market developments. — Enable the Council to understand how the Current Requirements could be shaped and satisfied/met/delivered. The Council will consider the feedback and responses received to help inform the Council's options and further decision making. For the avoidance of doubt, this stage of the project is not part of a formal procurement process and the Council is not committing, at this stage, to carrying out such a process. Participation or non-participation in the pre-procurement market engagement process shall not prevent any supplier participating in a potential future procurement, nor is it intended that any information supplied as part of the pre-procurement process shall place any supplier at an advantage in a potential procurement process. Participation in the pre-procurement market engagement procurement process will be at each supplier's own cost. No expense in responding to this process will be reimbursed by the Council. The Council will not enter into a contract based solely on the responses to this PIN and no information contained in the documents or in any communication made between the Council and any contractor in connection with its pre-procurement market engagement shall be relied upon as constituting a contract, agreement or representation that any contract shall be awarded. This pre-procurement market engagement process will comprise: Submission of the Supplier Questionnaire (please see Appendix A of the pre-procurement market engagement documentation) following the instructions detailed in Section VI.2) below. Supplier Questionnaires must be received by 12:00 on Friday 6.1.2017; and A Provider Event on 24.2.2017 (details to be confirmed). Range between: Currency: Pounds sterling — Indicative Value of between 1 000 000 and 2 000 000 GBP over the 4-year period.