# Soft Market Test: Commissioning of a Prevention Review across Leicestershire County Council

> Pre-procurement notice from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [Leicestershire County Council](/buyers/leicestershire-county-council/contract-awards)
- Published: 25 June 2024
- Stage: pre_procurement
- Notice ID: c9c2fa7b-0e45-4286-b45e-1f5a6f138985-761969
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-3155f03c-5eda-4745-85bb-624d7bee9b0c

## Description

The purpose of this Soft Market Test \(SMT\) is to gather interest from the market and to investigate potential options for Leicestershire County Council \(LCC\) to define and develop the most efficient and cost-effective target operating for preventative services\. The high level objectives are: • A review of high spend/agreed priority services across the authority that undertake preventative activity - primarily focusing on activities that reduce spend in Social Care and Health\. • Recommendations to be developed around opportunities to deliver savings as outlined above • Potential piloting/testing of outline recommendations to provide evidence to confirm approaches and assumptions\. • Using evidence-based decision making, trend analysis and comparison to the wider market to make sufficient recommendations on an agreed structure for Preventative activity across these services\. • Be clear on responsibilities, right people in the right roles\. • Remain compliant with any statutory duties\. • Deliver cost efficiencies, to ensure we secure value for money services\. This is not a call for competition\. At this stage the Council is seeking views from the market to determine options for a future procurement\. Suppliers who are interested in this opportunity are encouraged to complete the attached questionnaire\.

## Related contract awards

- [SEN20858-SEN-TAXI-Maplewell Hall School](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-31a5b4bc-f7e5-4547-ad57-9021e3cf0326): Leicestershire County Council
- [SEN19700 7 Seater vehicle Huncote to Birkett House School](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-629892b8-2045-47c7-801a-51276ac4ab8d): Leicestershire County Council
- [SEN19694 wheelchair accessible vehicles Coalville TO Birkett House School](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-d3b39891-b383-40c3-822b-f0a0cbe549bb): Leicestershire County Council

## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/c9c2fa7b-0e45-4286-b45e-1f5a6f138985-761969)