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Coventry City Council (COV)

COV - Sex Workers Support Service (2023) - AWARD

HealthcareCPV 85000000
Value£880k
Awarded28 Jul 2023
Published7 Feb 2024
RegionWest Midlands
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£880ktotal contract value
median £380k
this tender£0£16.5m

This sits in the upper-middle of the Health & Social Care band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 32,734 valued Health & Social Care tenders in our corpus.

The brief

Coventry City Council would like to re-commission a service which supports: •on street sex workers (residing and or working in CV 1 to CV6) to access the services they need to obtain and retain stable housing, access drug services and access and retain drug substitution prescriptions, access health care at an early rather than acute stage thereby enabling them to exit the sex work industry •a reduction in the number of children born to this cohort and where the individual becomes pregnant to support them to either access a termination, engage with social care to keep their child or through the child removal process •the prevention and control of outbreaks of infectious disease such as Tuberculosis and Sexually Transmitted Infections. •sex workers to recognise that they are victims of modern slavery and enabling them to provide police intelligence to identify modern slavery rings and provide court evidence where relevant The successful Provider of the new contract shall deliver the same level of support to all sex workers regardless of gender and sexual orientation.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

On street sex workers (residing and or

on street sex workers (residing and or working in CV 1 to CV6) to access the services they need to obtain and retain stable housing, access drug services and access and retain drug substitution prescriptions, access health care at an early rather than acute stage thereby enabling them to exit the sex work industry.

02

A reduction in the number of children

a reduction in the number of children born to this cohort and where the individual becomes pregnant to support them to either access a termination, engage with social care to keep their child or through the child removal process.

03

Sex workers to recognise that they are

sex workers to recognise that they are victims of modern slavery and enabling them to provide police intelligence to identify modern slavery rings and provide court evidence where relevant.

04

The successful Provider of the new contract

The successful Provider of the new contract shall deliver the same level of support to all sex workers regardless of gender and sexual orientation.

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Stage
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IT-208-16396-COV - 16396 - AWARD
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