ASC0255 - Recommissioning LLR Substance Misuse Treatment Services SMT

Leicester City Council, Leicestershire County Council, Rutland County Council, the Leicestershire Police and Crime Commissioner and Ministry of Justice are seeking to co-commission an Integrated Substance Misuse Treatment Service across the Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland areas incorporating community-based services for adults and young people including criminal justice pathways.

Current contracts for this service end on 31 March 2022 and the Commissioners are reviewing their substance misuse services to inform their future commissioning and procurement activity.

As part of the commissioning process, the Council is undertaking further soft market testing.

This gives potential providers and other stakeholders the opportunity to express their interests and feed in their views about the commissioning proposals.

This process does not constitute a formal tender or other competitive bidding process and will not result in the letting of a Contract.

The Council is using this process solely to test the market to gather information and ascertain the level of interest in this particular Service.

There are therefore no formal criteria which will be used to judge your responses, and it is not our intention to provide any feedback.

We would encourage you to respond if you feel this is something your organisation may have an interest in.

If you would like to participate in this Soft Market Testing, then please download and complete the Soft Market Testing questionnaire.

The Soft Market Test questionnaire can be found by copying and pasting the following web link into your web browser: https://procontract.due-north.com/Advert?advertId=98a1e9a3-8eef-ea11-8105-005056b64545 The completed questionnaire must be returned electronically by email to the email address procurement-asc@leicester.gov.uk with the subject heading: 'Completed SMT Q - SMTS' before or by no later than 12:00 hours on 28 September 2020.

Please note this is not a call for competition.

The Council welcomes the opportunity to engage with and appreciate your assistance in providing us with your views.

However, you should note that in any subsequent procurement exercise the Council will have to comply with our legal obligations and that neither the intention nor the purpose of this soft market testing exercise is to confer any advantage upon its participation in any future procurement process.