ASC0290 - Integrated Sexual Health Services (Market Engagement Event)

THIS IS NOT A CALL FOR COMPETITION

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.

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.

At a high level, sexual health services will typically include elements of:

• Contraceptive services,
• Psychosexual services (sexual health aspects),
• Sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing and treatment, Online STI testing and some treatment, Emergency Hormonal Contraception (EHC) and Oral contraception
• Young people's specific services,
• Outreach models (both clinical and non-clinical) and health promotion, with specific reference to underserved communities in Leicester
• Professional training (including clinical staff),
• Network management, and
• Sexual health leadership across the city of Leicester.

The Authority is therefore undertaking a market engagement event during which potential providers and other stakeholders will be able feed in their views about the potential service model and specification principles.

To participate in the Market Engagement Event (MEE) due to be held virtually on MS Teams on Wednesday 15th February 2023 from 10.15 am to 12:00 noon, please complete the MEE Attendance Form which can be downloaded from the Due North Advert for this event. Please find the link to this advert further below.

The completed MEE Attendance Form must be returned electronically by email by no later than 13 February 2023 to procurement-asc@leicester.gov.uk. Participants will then receive further confirmation of their MEE reservation and joining instructions/invitation to the MEE.

In addition to the MEE, the Authority is also undertaking a Soft Market Test (SMT).

The SMT questionnaire can be found by copying and pasting the following web link into your web browser: https://procontract.due-north.com/Advert?advertId=78c50296-a78d-ed11-811c-005056b64545

This completed questionnaire must be returned electronically by email before or no later than 14:00 hours on 31 January 2023 to procurement-asc@leicester.gov.uk with the subject heading: 'Completed SMT Q - LCC ISHS.

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.