ASC0272 – Soft Market Testing – Extra Care (Enhanced Independent Living) Accommodation Scheme(s) on a Leicester City Council Owned Site(s)

In addition to the II.1.4 Short Description, please note the following:

The two Extra Care (Enhanced Independent Living) Schemes will provide accommodation for a range of vulnerable people aged 18+ including people with learning disabilities, people with mental health need and people with physical or sensory disabilities, older people and people with dementia.

It is anticipated, dependent upon this engagement exercise, that tenders for this project would be sought during 2022, to enable contract award later in 2022.

This Prior Information Notice is regarding undertaking a Soft Market Test and therefore is not a call for competition. 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. There are therefore no formal criteria which we will use to review responses and it is not our intention to provide any feedback. Any response or failure to respond to this soft market test will not prejudice or influence the assessment of potential bidders should a competitive bidding process later result.

To participate in this Soft Market Testing, organisations that may be interested, either individually or as part of a consortium, must complete a Soft Market Testing questionnaire.

The questionnaire can be found by copying and pasting the following web link into your web browser:

procontract.due-north.com/Advert ↗

Please refer to section 4.1. of the Soft Market Testing Questionnaire for further details of the Online Market Engagement Event including how to book a place at the event.

The completed questionnaire must be returned electronically by email before or no later than 14:00 hours on 07 December 2021 to the email address procurement-asc@leicester.gov.uk with the subject heading 'Completed SMT Q - EC'.