Health and social work services

Tender description

Leicester City Council (the “Authority”) invites tenders for the provision of community integrated sexual health promotion service. This service should be seen as the experts in sexual health promotion in the community and work closely with the clinical service. It will provide both general work and specific work with priority groups. The whole service will provide generic sexual health promotion and HIV prevention to all people. The proposed contract will be for an initial period of 3 years to commence on 1.4.2019 with an option to extend, subject to satisfactory performance outcomes and agreement by the authority, availability of funding beyond 31.3.2022 which is not guaranteed, for a further period or periods up to a total of 24 months, taking the contract term to a maximum of 60 months. The contract value assigned to this service is 159,00 GBP per annum, 799 600 GBP for the full 60 months contract period (36 months plus the option to extend for a further period/s up to 24 months). This figure of 799 600 GBP is inclusive of the 4 600 GBP one-off funding referred in Part One of the ITT (paragraphs 1.4.3 to 1.4.5) in respect of TUPE implementation costs. Inflationary uplift is not to be applied to this contract by the authority during the life of the contract (the initial period or extension period/s if exercised). It is the authority’s view that TUPE is likely to apply in respect of this contract. TUPE refers to the “Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006" as amended by the “Collective Redundancies and Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) (Amendment) Regulations 2014". However, tenderers will need to reach their own conclusion as to whether or not TUPE applies. Applicants are strongly advised to obtain professional advice as to the implications of TUPE regulations and pensions if they are the successful bidder and TUPE regulations apply. The procurement process being undertaken is based upon the “open” tendering procedure as defined by the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 and the Authority cannot enter into any negotiations on the contract. This procurement process falls under the Light Touch Regime as defined by the Public Contracts Regulations 2015, Regulation 74 — 77.