Published date: 4 November 2019

This notice was replaced on 13 January 2020

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Awarded contract (published 13 January 2020)

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Contract summary

Industry

  • Health and social work services - 85000000

Location of contract

North East

Value of contract

£4,617,300 to £9,234,600

Procurement reference

DCC001-DN435058-23683059

Published date

4 November 2019

Closing date

4 December 2019

Contract start date

1 April 2020

Contract end date

31 March 2023

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

This contract is for the provision of a Stop Smoking Service for County Durham.The County Durham Sustainable Community Strategy identifies smoking as the main cause of preventable morbidity and premature death and the primary reason for the gap in healthy life expectancy between rich and poor. Reducing smoking is therefore seen as the most important step in narrowing the gap between life expectancy in County Durham and England as a whole.

The Stop Smoking Service function consists of two elements:

i) Programme management of the service, including recruitment and performance of level 2 stop smoking service providers.

ii) Direct provision of stop smoking service by specialist stop smoking advisors to key target groups.

About the buyer

Contact name

Donna Iley

Address

County Hall
Durham
DH1 5UG
United Kingdom

Telephone

+44 3000268235

Email

donna.iley@durham.gov.uk

Website

http://www.durham.gov.uk