Published date: 21 September 2017
Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.
Contract summary
Industry
Health and social work services - 85000000
Location of contract
London
Value of contract
£1,900,000
Procurement reference
TOWER001-DN299631-94515073
Published date
21 September 2017
Closing date
20 October 2017
Contract start date
1 April 2018
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
The Council wishes to commission an Infant Feeding and Wellbeing Service for Tower Hamlets. The service will be provided within the Royal London Hospital, Barkantine birth centre, Tower Hamlets Children's Centres, other community venues and through home visits.
The service will have a primary focus on infant feeding, promoting breast feeding wherever possible, providing specialist support for babies with complex feeding problems, and advising mothers on weaning and introducing solid foods in a way that optimises baby's health and wellbeing. The service will deliver a local, easily accessible breastfeeding peer support programme in line with NICE guidelines.
The service will also have a wider health promotion role, including supporting infant attachment and maternal emotional health and wellbeing; and providing brief interventions and referrals, e.g. in relation to smoking cessation, family planning and domestic violence.
The service will be expected to recruit and train an infant feeding peer support volunteer workforce who will be registered with a national accredited breast feeding organisation providing training and supervision. Local mothers will be encouraged to take up the opportunity of becoming trained volunteers and will gain experience working in the service being commissioned.
The service will work closely with the existing Tower Hamlets UNICEF Baby Friendly programmes in the maternity unit and community as well as midwifery, health visiting and children's centre services.
The organisation providing the service must be registered with the Care Quality Commission.
There will be TUPE implications for this contract.
The anticipated contract start date is 1st April 2018.
The estimated value of the contract is £380,000 per annum. For a period of 3 years with the option to extend for a further 2 years.
About the buyer
Contact name
Procurement
Address
Mulberry Place
London
E14 2BG
England
Telephone
+44 2073644099
procurement@towerhamlets.gov.uk
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