ASC0283 - Individual Placement and Support (IPS) in Community Drug and Alcohol Treatment

Tender description

Leicester City Council has been chosen as one of the areas for the roll out of Individual Placement Support (IPS) for substance misuse in 2022-23. Funding of £148,394 pa has been allocated to Leicester by central government for the 2022-25 period based on the costs of employing 2 employment advisors and 1 senior employment advisor. We are now considering how to implement this programme locally and would like to gauge the views and interest of the market in doing this through a soft market test. The Commissioners will use the information to appraise options and identify a preferred option for implementation. This might result in a tender exercise for this service. This Soft Market Testing process gives potential providers (and other stakeholders) the opportunity to express their interest and feed in their views about the potential service model and specification principles. The information gathered will inform the commissioning process. This process does not constitute a formal tender or other competitive bidding process and will not result in the letting of a Contract. The commissioning partners are using this process solely to test the market to gather information to ascertain the level of interest in this particular service and to appraise options and further develop the specification. Therefore, there are no formal criteria which we will use to judge your responses, and it is not our intention to provide any feedback. We would encourage you to respond if you feel this is something your organisation may have an interest in. If you would like to participate in this Soft Market Testing, then please download and complete the Soft Market Testing questionnaire located from the tender portal (link below) and then email your completed questionnaire to the email address procurement-asc@leicester.gov.uk with the subject heading: 'Completed SMT Q - IPS' before or by no later than 14:00 hours 8th June 2022 The Council welcomes the opportunity to engage with and appreciate your assistance in providing us with your views. However, you should note that in any subsequent procurement exercise the Council will have to comply with our legal obligations and that neither the intention nor the purpose of this soft market testing exercise is to confer any advantage upon its participation in any future procurement process.