ASC0271 - Soft Market Testing - Improving mental and physical wellbeing of parents with vulnerabilit...
Main contract details
Opportunity Id
DN576961
Title
ASC0271 - Soft Market Testing - Improving mental and physical wellbeing of parents with vulnerabilities
Categories
85000000-9 - Health and social work services
98000000-3 - Other community, social and personal services
Description
<p><strong>THIS IS NOT A CALL FOR COMPETITION</strong></p>
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<p>Leicester City Council intends to commission a new service to support the improvement of mental and physical wellbeing of parents with vulnerabilities.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>The contract value is estimated to be £150,000 in total over three years contract period.</p>
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<p>Giving every child the best start in life is crucial to improving health outcomes and reducing health inequalities across the life course. The foundations for virtually every aspect of human development – physical, intellectual, and emotional – are set in place during pregnancy and in early childhood. Early years have a lifelong effect on health and wellbeing, educational achievement, and economic status. The aim of this initiative is to provide support to Leicester families to improve both mental and physical health outcomes in parents from vulnerable, isolated, and marginalised backgrounds. This project will also target fathers and male carers, ensuring their voices and needs are not overlooked.</p>
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<p>By improving the overall health and wellbeing of parents and carers, their confidence in supporting their child will be improved, allowing for the parents and carers to bond with their child more affectively, improving support for their child’s development. This is critical in the first 1001 days of a child’s life, and so by providing this service to parents and carers as early as possible to aid their child’s early development is crucial. The provider of the service will be asked to work with these populations, located across several settings including but not limited to, mother and baby units, hostels, bedsits, and temporary accommodation. By working with partner organisations, and offering a range of activities, the service aims to reduce the social isolation of the target population in the city and will provide them with the mechanisms by which to improve their own physical and mental wellbeing.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>There are some key documents which have been important in building the evidence base for this programme, which may be useful to reflect on. They are:</p>
<p><a href="https://www.health.org.uk/publications/build-back-fairer-the-covid-19-marmot-review">Build Back Fairer: The COVID-19 Marmot Review</a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-best-start-for-life-a-vision-for-the-1001-critical-days">The best start for life: a vision for the 1,001 critical days</a></p>
<p> </p>
<p>It is anticipated that tenders for the commissioning arrangement would be sought in January 2022 to enable new contract to begin from 1st July 2022. </p>
<p> </p>
<p>Commissioners would like to undertake a soft market test. This gives potential providers and other stakeholders the opportunity to express their interests and feed in their views about the potential service model and service definitions. The commissioners will use the information to appraise options and further develop the specification.</p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>This process does not constitute a formal tender or other competitive bidding process and will not result in the letting of a Contract.</strong> The commissioners are using this process solely to test the market to gather information and ascertain the level of interest in this service. There are therefore no formal criteria which we will use to judge your responses, and it is not our intention to provide any feedback.</p>
<p>To participate in this Soft Market Testing, organisations that may be interested, must complete a Soft Market Test questionnaire. The questionnaire can be downloaded from the attachments section located at the right hand side of this advert.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>The completed questionnaire must be returned electronically by email before or no later than 14:00 hours on 23 November 2021 to the email address procurement-asc@leicester.gov.uk with the subject heading: ‘Completed SMT Q - HI'.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Leicester City Council intends to commission a new service to support the improvement of mental and physical wellbeing of parents with vulnerabilities.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>The contract value is estimated to be £150,000 in total over three years contract period.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Giving every child the best start in life is crucial to improving health outcomes and reducing health inequalities across the life course. The foundations for virtually every aspect of human development – physical, intellectual, and emotional – are set in place during pregnancy and in early childhood. Early years have a lifelong effect on health and wellbeing, educational achievement, and economic status. The aim of this initiative is to provide support to Leicester families to improve both mental and physical health outcomes in parents from vulnerable, isolated, and marginalised backgrounds. This project will also target fathers and male carers, ensuring their voices and needs are not overlooked.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>By improving the overall health and wellbeing of parents and carers, their confidence in supporting their child will be improved, allowing for the parents and carers to bond with their child more affectively, improving support for their child’s development. This is critical in the first 1001 days of a child’s life, and so by providing this service to parents and carers as early as possible to aid their child’s early development is crucial. The provider of the service will be asked to work with these populations, located across several settings including but not limited to, mother and baby units, hostels, bedsits, and temporary accommodation. By working with partner organisations, and offering a range of activities, the service aims to reduce the social isolation of the target population in the city and will provide them with the mechanisms by which to improve their own physical and mental wellbeing.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>There are some key documents which have been important in building the evidence base for this programme, which may be useful to reflect on. They are:</p>
<p><a href="https://www.health.org.uk/publications/build-back-fairer-the-covid-19-marmot-review">Build Back Fairer: The COVID-19 Marmot Review</a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-best-start-for-life-a-vision-for-the-1001-critical-days">The best start for life: a vision for the 1,001 critical days</a></p>
<p> </p>
<p>It is anticipated that tenders for the commissioning arrangement would be sought in January 2022 to enable new contract to begin from 1st July 2022. </p>
<p> </p>
<p>Commissioners would like to undertake a soft market test. This gives potential providers and other stakeholders the opportunity to express their interests and feed in their views about the potential service model and service definitions. The commissioners will use the information to appraise options and further develop the specification.</p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>This process does not constitute a formal tender or other competitive bidding process and will not result in the letting of a Contract.</strong> The commissioners are using this process solely to test the market to gather information and ascertain the level of interest in this service. There are therefore no formal criteria which we will use to judge your responses, and it is not our intention to provide any feedback.</p>
<p>To participate in this Soft Market Testing, organisations that may be interested, must complete a Soft Market Test questionnaire. The questionnaire can be downloaded from the attachments section located at the right hand side of this advert.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>The completed questionnaire must be returned electronically by email before or no later than 14:00 hours on 23 November 2021 to the email address procurement-asc@leicester.gov.uk with the subject heading: ‘Completed SMT Q - HI'.</p>
Region(s) of supply
East Midlands (England)
Estimated value
£236,531.00
Keywords
Mental and physical well-being , Mental well-being , Improving health inequalities, Physical well-being
Key dates
Estimated contract dates
Start date
01/07/2022
End date
30/06/2025
Expression of interest window
From 26/10/2021 14:00 to 23/11/2021 14:00
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Contact details
Buyer
Leicester City Council
Contact
Yatish Shah
Telephone
+44 1164542348
Address
City Hall
Leicester
Leicestershire
LE1 1FZ
United Kingdom
Leicester
Leicestershire
LE1 1FZ
United Kingdom
