Published date: 16 September 2021

Last edited date: 20 September 2021

Closed early engagement


Closing date: 15 October 2021

Contract summary

Industry

  • Evaluation consultancy services - 79419000

Location of contract

SW1H 0EU

Procurement reference

CF-0355100D0O000000rwimUAA2

Published date

16 September 2021

Closing date

15 October 2021

Contract type

Service contract

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

Evaluation of investment in weight management services Prior Information Notice
Purpose
The purpose of this prior information notice is to give notice and assess interest in two short-term evaluation projects aimed at assessing Government's current 1-year programme of investment in local authorities' capacity to provide effective weight management services for adults and children.
1. Background to the Weight Management Services Evaluations
The Department of Health and Social Care has provided over £30m of grant funding to local authorities in England to expand their provision of adult behavioural weight management services. A further amount (c£4m) was offered to a much smaller number of local authorities to develop and test new approaches to
a) providing behavioural weight management services for children and young people, and
b) test approaches to delivering extended brief interventions - proactive follow-up with motivational support and onward referral to weight management services children identified as living with overweight and obesity and their families
The Department is seeking to commission evaluations which will bring together a range of existing evidence and conduct new enquiries into these funding programmes.
2. Expectations of the supplier
These evaluations are being put to the market as two lots so that suppliers may apply for both or either of the evaluations. The budget for each evaluation is £30K which reflects the short duration of the projects to be evaluated and the availability of data and other evaluative research which can be drawn on and augmented.
Final reports for the adult weight management service evaluation will be required in Spring 2022 whilst the child weight management evaluation will need to report in Autumn 2022.
Suggestions and queries
We welcome any suggestions or queries in regards to this notice via email: penny.withers@dhsc.gov.uk
The Invitation to Tender will be available from late September.
Please note: the supplier will need to register their interest via Atamis portal: https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome

More information

Previous notice about this procurement

Evaluation of investment in weight management services Prior Information Notice

  • Early engagement
  • Published 16 September 2021

About the buyer

Contact name

Gauri Jain

Address

39 Victoria Street
London
SW1H 0EU
United Kingdom

Email

gauri.jain@dhsc.gov.uk