Services for people with sight loss and dual visual and sensory impairment Service

Leicester City Council (the Council) is planning to procure new services for people with sight loss and dual visual and sensory impairment. Procurement is anticipated to take place in the Autumn 2018 for new services to be in place from 1st April 2019.

Prior to that, consultation will be carried out to gather stakeholders' views on our commissioning proposals. The purpose of the new contract will be to ensure that services are available to meet the Council's statutory obligations under the Care Act 2014 to provide support to people in Leicester who have sight loss or dual sensory impairment.

As part of the commissioning process, the Council is 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 commissioning proposals.

This process does not constitute a formal tender or other competitive bidding process and will not result in the letting of a Contract. The Council is using this process solely to test the market to gather information and ascertain the level of interest in this particular Service.

There are therefore no formal criteria which will be used 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. Additional information: If you would like to participate in this Soft Market Testing, please use the link below to access the questionnaire. http://www.sourceleicestershire.co.uk/contracts/show/id/1... Please complete the Soft Market Testing questionnaire and return it to procurement-asc@leicester.gov.uk with the subject heading: 'Completed SMT Q - V&SIS' before or by no later than 12:00 hours on 22nd March 2018.