Pre-tender

Telecare Monitoring and Out of Hours Telephony Provision Project

Details

Value
£0.01
Topic
Telephone-answering services
Published
15 September 2026
Submission
2 October 2026in 2 days

Tender description

Newcastle City Council (NCC) currently provides the monitoring element of NCC's Telecare Service (Ostara), in addition to a range of telephony services, which operate in-house. We would like to explore the options of procuring an Alarm Receiving Centre (ARC) to monitor our telecare alarms 24/7, and our out of hours telephony. We wish to explore opportunities within the market that will help shape and develop our current service, as part of the commissioning and procurement process, the Council is undertaking preliminary market engagement to explore the availability, capability and interest of providers in delivering the proposed services. This engagement is intended to inform the Council's procurement approach, understand current market capability, capacity, identify opportunities for innovation, and ensure that the future service specification reflects current best practice and emerging technologies. We welcome responses from suppliers with relevant experience and expertise. Information gathered through this process will help shape the Council's future requirements and service design. Suppliers are invited to review the documents via our Open e-tendering platform. Link: https://www.open-uk.org/ If suppliers wish to secure a slot, please request via the correspondence/ message option via the portal. Project: # OPEN20262057 Reference: 009509 - Telecare Monitoring and Out of Hours Telephony Provision Project Budget information and contract length is yet to be established in line with market engagement findings.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Pre-tender published15 September 2026
    Current notice

About the buyer

Newcastle City Council is the local authority for the city of Newcastle, and runs commissioning and procurement as a single service serving the whole council. Suppliers bidding for its contracts register free on the Open e-tendering platform. Competitive opportunities above the council's threshold are published on Open alongside those of the North East local authorities. Notices are also published on Find a Tender and Contracts Finder. A public register of the council's contracts sits on the North East Procurement Organisation portal. The NEPO Supplier Partnership Programme offers free bid-writing training to local organisations.

UK local government drives £140bn in annual procurement, led by social protection (£66.6bn) and education (£57.1bn).

Over the past 5 years, most of Newcastle City Council's contract awards have been in construction work, IT services and health and social work.

Relevant CPV codes

  • 79510000 · Telephone-answering services
  • 85100000 · Health services
  • 85300000 · Social work and related services

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