Published date: 15 January 2024
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Contract summary
Industry
Community health services - 85323000
Location of contract
South East
Value of contract
£3,647,834 to £6,701,834
Procurement reference
OXFS001-DN705550-51960462
Published date
15 January 2024
Closing date
23 February 2024
Closing time
11am
Contract start date
1 June 2024
Contract end date
31 March 2028
Contract type
Service contract
Procedure type
Other
Contract is suitable for SMEs?
Yes
Contract is suitable for VCSEs?
Yes
Description
The subject matter of this process relates to the delivery of services which are listed in Schedule 3 of the Public Contract Regulations.
Oxfordshire County Council is looking to commission a life-course healthy weight service. The role of the healthy weight service in Oxfordshire is to support and enable residents across the life-course to achieve and maintain a healthy weight by offering a range of universal preventative initiatives at tier 1 and healthy weight services at tier 2. The service will work with system partners across the pathway to ensure an efficient use of resources and a streamlined pathway of care between tiers 1-4. It will avoid perpetuating weight stigma and use co-production approaches in the design of healthy weight services.
Several gaps have been identified in the provision of current service commissioning, noticeably prevention support for the early years (0-3 years), adolescents (aged 12-18 years), and pregnant and post-natal women thus this service will cover the whole life-course. A key element of this service will be to engage population groups with high overweight and obesity prevalence (such as those living in priority neighbourhoods and those from ethnic minority communities) in order to tackle health inequalities.
We are aiming to increase the number of adults, children and families who are a healthy weight as part of the Whole Systems Approach to Healthy Weight in Oxfordshire. The tier 1 and tier 2 multi-component life-course healthy weight service for Oxfordshire outlined in the service specification is expected to support the range of interventions which contribute to achieving this.
The Contract term is intended to be 3 years and 9 months anticipated to commence on 1 June 2024, with Service delivery commencing from 1 September 2024 . The Contract period is expected to expire on 31 March 2028. The Council has the option to extend the term of the contract for an additional 3 years in aggregate (until 31 March 2031).
For full details of the service requirements, please refer to the full specification which is attached to the Invitation to Tender as Appendix 1 Specification. This can be accessed via the South East Business Portal at the following URL: https://sebp.due-north.com/ The project reference within the portal is DN705550.
More information
Previous notice about this procurement
Market Engagement - Lifecourse Healthy Weight Services
- Future opportunity
- Published 1 August 2023
About the buyer
Contact name
Alex White
Address
3rd Floor
County Hall
Oxford
OX1 1ND
United Kingdom
Telephone
+44 7554339176
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