Sexual Health Primary Prevention Service

Gloucestershire County Council recognises the importance of good sexual health as an element of our overall health and wellbeing. It is important that people have the information and confidence to make choices that are right for them.

It helps people to develop positive, healthy and consensual relationships, and enables them to protect themselves and their partners from sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and prevent unplanned pregnancies. Gloucestershire's vision for its sexual health services is to 'improve sexual health for the population of Gloucestershire and reduce sexual health inequalities'.

A core part of this is primary prevention: the provision of education and support to enable individuals to protect themselves against poor sexual health; understand more about healthy relationships; and feel assured in their choices and rights in relation to sex. The Prevention Services will play a key role in supporting Gloucestershire's vision by focusing on the primary prevention of poor sexual health, with a particular focus on individuals and groups likely to be at higher risk of poor outcomes.

NB: Please note there is a confidentiality agreement required to access the ITT document . This needs to be signed, scanned and returned through the portal.

Access to the documents will then be granted. The closing date to return the Confidentiality Agreement and access the ITT docs will be 18th October 2017 @ 10.00am Additional information: There is a confidentiality agreement required to access the ITT document .

This needs to be signed, scanned and returned through the portal. Access to the documents will then be granted.

The closing date to return the Confidentiality Agreement and access the ITT docs was18th October 2017 @ 10.00am and has been changed to 27th October 2017 @ 10.00am The subject matter of this procurement process relates to the delivery of services which are listed to in Schedule 3 to the regulations. As such the full regime set out in the regulations will not apply to the award of this contract(s).

Consequently, the procurement process adopted by the Authority has been developed in accordance with Regulation 76 of the regulations and in particular in accordance with the fundamental public procurement principles of transparency and equal treatment. For the avoidance of doubt this means that the Authority have not adopted the open procedure (as such term is defined in the regulations) for the undertaking of this procurement process.

The fact that in this Contract Notice at Section IV.1.1) the field/box relating to type of procedure may default to the term 'Open' does not mean that this procedure is being followed by the Authority. Please login to ProContract via www.supplyingthesouthwest.org.uk and register your interest in the opportunity.

You will then be issued a confidentiality agreement which needs to be completed and sent via ProContract, in order to access the ITT documents. All questions related to this contract should be sent using the "discussion" function, which will be available once you have logged in and registered your interest. All questions related to this contract should be sent using the "discussion" function, which will be available once you have logged in and registered your interest.