Foodbank Plus 2025
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The procurement process for the "Foodbank Plus 2025" initiative, conducted by Leicester City Council, is currently in the planning stage. This process is centred on soliciting feedback through a Soft Market Test regarding a proposed service that integrates welfare advice with mental wellbeing support within community settings. This falls under the health and social work services category and is pertinent to stakeholders within the UK, particularly in the UKF21 region which encompasses Leicester.
While no formal tender has been issued yet, the deadline for providing feedback during the soft market engagement phase is scheduled for 2nd December 2025. This process will aid in shaping the final service specification to align with local health and poverty action goals. For businesses, particularly SMEs and VCSEs, this soft market testing represents an opportunity to influence the service model that will later be tendered.
Companies specialising in health and social work services or those with innovative approaches to community-based welfare support should consider engaging with the Council to provide insights and ideas. Participation in this stage can be instrumental in establishing a foothold for competitiveness when the official procurement process kicks off, expected post 9th December 2025. The project, with a contractual period from January 2026 through to December 2028 and valued at £315,000, presents opportunities for growth within the public sector service provision.
Leicester City Council is carrying out a Soft Market Test to gather feedback from potential providers on the proposed Foodbank Plus service. The aim is to understand market interest, capacity, and potential delivery approaches for a model that combines welfare advice with mental wellbeing support in community settings. The feedback received will help shape the final specification, ensuring the service aligns with Leicester's public health and poverty actions.
As part of the commissioning process, the authority 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 potential model and specification principles. The commissioners will use the information to appraise options and further develop the specification.
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 particular service. There are therefore no formal criteria which we will use to judge your responses and it is not our intention to provide any feedback.
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The contract period is three years.
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