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    "description": "All correspondence or queries in relation to this Early Market Engagement Scoping should be communicated via email account as indicated. This PIN is live from publication up to 3.00 pm on 29 April 2026. Providers are reminded this is not a Call for Tender and this notice has been placed for capacity scoping purposes only.",
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        "title": "Early Market Engagement - Learning Disability Supported Living Accommodation in the preferred area of Newtownabbey, but the Trust will consider other areas as secondary options.",
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        "description": "This is a Prior Information Notice (PIN) by way of an Early Market Engagement scoping for the NHSCT to ascertain current capacity and potential future capacity in the market for the provision of a bespoke single occupancy Learning Disability Supported Living Accommodation for a Service User with complex behaviours in the preferred area of Newtownabbey but the Trust will consider other areas as secondary options.",
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