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ClosedStage · preprocurement

Leicester City Council

ASC0254 - Soft Market Testing - Dementia Support Service

HealthcareCPV 85000000
Value£1.4m
Deadline1 Sept 2019
Published29 Aug 2019
RegionEast Midlands
Timeline
Published 29 Aug 2019ClosedCloses 1 Sept 2019
Contract value in context
£1.4mtotal contract value
median £380k
this tender£0£16.5m

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The brief

*Please note, the deadline for this exercise has now been extended to 12:00 hours on 2nd September 2019* Leicester City Council will be leading a consortium of statutory bodies to plan and procure new services for people diagnosed with dementia and their carers.

Procurement is anticipated to take place in early 2020 for new services to be in place from 1st October 2020.

Prior to that, consultation will be carried out to gather stakeholders' views on our commissioning proposals.

The purpose of the new contract will be to ensure that services are available to meet the Council's statutory obligations under the Care Act 2014 to provide support to people in Leicester who have dementia or care for those who do.

As part of the commissioning process, the Council is undertaking a soft market test.

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 complete the Soft Market Testing questionnaire, which can be accessed via the following link: http://www.sourceleicestershire.co.uk/contracts/show/id/17994 Please email your completed questionnaire to the email address procurement-asc@leicester.gov.uk with the subject heading: 'Completed SMT Q - DSS', before or by no later than 12:00 hours on 30th August 2019.

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.

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Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

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The purpose of the new contract

The purpose of the new contract will be to ensure that services are available to meet the Council's statutory obligations under the Care Act 2014 to provide support to people in Leicester who have dementia or care for those who do.

02

There are therefore no formal criteria

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

03

However you should note that in any

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.

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Stage
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