ASC0290 Integrated Sexual Health Services - Soft Market Testing
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<p>Leicester City Council (the Authority) are currently considering options for the future design and procurement of their Integrated Sexual Health Services (ISHS). The current contractual arrangement expires on 31 March 2024. The Authority therefore anticipates commencing the procurement of ISHS in spring 2023 with a view for the proposed new ISHS to be operational from 1 April 2024. </p>
<p>As a part of this process, the commissioners of this service are keen to capture provider experience, skills, knowledge and concerns at an early point to ensure these can be fully considered throughout the service and procurement design phases. </p>
<p>At a high level, sexual health services will typically include elements of:</p>
<p style="text-indent: -18pt"><span style="font-family: Symbol">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span>Contraceptive services,</p>
<p style="text-indent: -18pt"><span style="font-family: Symbol">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span>Psychosexual services (sexual health aspects),</p>
<p style="text-indent: -18pt"><span style="font-family: Symbol">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span>Sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing and treatment, Online STI testing and some treatment, Emergency Hormonal Contraception (EHC) and Oral contraception</p>
<p style="text-indent: -18pt"><span style="font-family: Symbol">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span>Young people’s specific services,</p>
<p style="text-indent: -18pt"><span style="font-family: Symbol">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span>Outreach models (both clinical and non-clinical) and health promotion,</p>
<p style="text-indent: -18pt"><span style="font-family: Symbol">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span>Professional training (including clinical staff),</p>
<p style="text-indent: -18pt"><span style="font-family: Symbol">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span>Network management, and</p>
<p style="text-indent: -18pt"><span style="font-family: Symbol">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span>Sexual health leadership across the city of Leicester </p>
<p>The Authority is therefore 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 potential service model and specification principles. The Authority will use the information to appraise options and further develop the specification.</p>
<p>To participate in this Soft Market Testing, organisations that may be interested should complete a Soft Market Testing questionnaire. The questionnaire can be downloaded from the attachments section of this advert.</p>
<p>This completed questionnaire must be returned electronically by email before or no later than 14:00 hours on 31 January 2023 to <a>procurement-asc@leicester.gov.uk</a> with the subject heading: 'Completed SMT Q – LCC ISHS.</p>
<p>This process does not constitute a formal tender or other competitive bidding process and will not result in the letting of a Contract. The authority is 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>
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From 11/01/2023 06:15 to 31/01/2023 14:00
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Leicester
Leicestershire
LE1 1FZ
United Kingdom