ASC0267 - Soft Market Testing - Direct Payments Support Service
Main contract details
Opportunity Id
DN567829
Title
ASC0267 - Soft Market Testing - Direct Payments Support Service
Categories
85000000-9 - Health and social work services
98000000-3 - Other community, social and personal services
Description
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<p>THIS IS NOT A CALL FOR COMPETITION</p>
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<p>Leicester City Council intends to commission a ‘Direct Payment Support Service’ (DPSS) for people and their families living within the boundary of the city of Leicester who receive a direct payment/personal budget to purchase adult’s or children’s social care services. The service should also be available to people who receive a personal health budget, via the NHS, across Leicester City, Leicestershire and Rutland. This service will support people to use their direct payment to purchase services or employ a personal assistant. It is anticipated that tenders for the DPSS arrangements will be sought in January 2022 to enable a new contract(s) to begin from November 2022.</p>
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<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>
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<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 DPSS 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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<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>
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<p>The completed questionnaire must be returned electronically by email before or no later than <strong>14:00 hours on 15 October 2021</strong> to the email address <a href="mailto:procurement-asc@leicester.gov.uk">procurement-asc@leicester.gov.uk</a> with the subject heading: ‘Completed SMT Q - DPSS.</p>
<p>THIS IS NOT A CALL FOR COMPETITION</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Leicester City Council intends to commission a ‘Direct Payment Support Service’ (DPSS) for people and their families living within the boundary of the city of Leicester who receive a direct payment/personal budget to purchase adult’s or children’s social care services. The service should also be available to people who receive a personal health budget, via the NHS, across Leicester City, Leicestershire and Rutland. This service will support people to use their direct payment to purchase services or employ a personal assistant. It is anticipated that tenders for the DPSS arrangements will be sought in January 2022 to enable a new contract(s) to begin from November 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 DPSS 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> </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 <strong>14:00 hours on 15 October 2021</strong> to the email address <a href="mailto:procurement-asc@leicester.gov.uk">procurement-asc@leicester.gov.uk</a> with the subject heading: ‘Completed SMT Q - DPSS.</p>
Region(s) of supply
East Midlands (England)
Estimated value
£6,300,000.00
Keywords
Direct Payments Support Service, Direct Payments, Personal Budget, Personal Health Budget
Key dates
Estimated contract dates
Start date
07/11/2022
End date
07/11/2027
Expression of interest window
From 01/09/2021 07:00 to 15/10/2021 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
