THIS IS NOT A CALL FOR COMPETITION ONLINE MARKET ENGAGEMENT EVENT Leicester City Council is considering commissioning a Community Connectors Service, which will focus on six deprived areas of the city.

The community connectors will take a community centred, (i.e.

Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) or similar) approach to build confident and connected communities with the aims of reducing isolation and loneliness, improving physical and mental health and reducing health inequalities.

It is anticipated that tenders for the Community Connectors Service will be sought in July/August 2022 to enable new contract(s) to begin from January 2023.

As part of the commissioning process for the Community Connectors Service, the Commissioners of this service are hosting an Online Market Engagement Event.

The Online Market Engagement Event is being held on Friday 24th June 2022 commencing at 11.00 a.m. and is anticipated to end at 1.00 p.m.

The event will be conducted online via Microsoft Teams.

The event will give potential providers and other stakeholders the opportunity to express their interests and feed in their views about the potential service.

The Commissioners will use the information to appraise options and further develop the specification.

For further details regarding the proposed Community Connectors Service, please see the Project Overview document attached to the following advert by copying and pasting the below web link into your web browser: https://procontract.due-north.com/Advert?advertId=2b613c4e-b8eb-ec11-8115-005056b64545 To book a place at this event, please complete the online booking form by no later than 2.00 p.m. on Wednesday 22nd June 2022 by copying and pasting the following web link into your web browser: https://forms.office.com/r/gs3Wudvfqa A maximum of TWO places per organisation are available.

Places are limited and will therefore be allocated on a first response basis.

Upon receipt of your booking form, if places are still available, your organisation's attendees for the event listed in your completed booking form will receive joining instructions and the link to the meeting which will be provided via their email addresses provided on your completed form.

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

If you are unfamiliar with joining a Microsoft Teams meeting, guidance to assist will be provided to the meeting attendees via their email addresses provided on your completed booking form.

If once your place at the event has been confirmed but you are then unable to attend, please let the Authority know via email to procurement-asc@leicester.gov.uk so that your place can be allocated to somebody else on the reserve list.