Published date: 21 April 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.


Closing: 23 May 2017

Contract summary

Industry

  • Marketing services - 79342000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£0 to £20,000,000

Procurement reference

tender_141504/580760

Published date

21 April 2017

Closing date

23 May 2017

Contract start date

3 July 2017

Contract end date

2 July 2021

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

Focussed primarily on health, Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Trust, on behalf of NHS Commercial Solutions, as the Contracting Authority is seeking to procure a collaborative framework agreement for the provision of social marketing services to develop activities aimed at changing or maintaining people's behaviour for the benefit of different population groups in different geographical areas.

The service will, as directed by the Procuring Authorities, plan, scope, develop, implement, monitor and evaluate a social marketing service to gain a greater insight into individual and group behaviour and design and implement effective information campaigns and service interventions for specific target groups.

The public sector bodies to whom the use of this framework agreement will be open include, in particular, the following in the United Kingdom and their respective statutory successors and organisations created as a result of re-organisations or organisational changes, and any private sector entities having similar procurement needs:

(a) National Health Service (NHS) bodies in England, including acute Trusts (including those operating community hospitals and the provider functions of the former Primary Care Trusts), Care Trusts, Mental Health Trusts, Ambulance Trusts, any of which may be an NHS Foundation Trust, and Clinical Support Units (CSU's), Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCG's), General Practitioners and General Practitioner commissioning consortia, Special Health Authorities and Area Teams. (See http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/NHSTrustListing.aspx);

(b) Health Boards, NHS Trusts, Community Health Councils and other constituent bodies of the NHS in Wales (http://www.wales.nhs.uk/nhswalesaboutus/structure);

(c) NHS Scotland and its constituent bodies including: the Scottish Ambulance Service, Special NHS Boards and the other constituent organisations of the Scottish National Health Service (http://www.scot.nhs.uk/organisations/);

(d) Health and Social Care Trusts, Health Agencies and other constituent bodies of the Health and Social Care Service in Northern Ireland (http://online.hscni.net/);

(e) Local Authorities, a list of such authorities being available at: http://www.idea.gov.uk/idk/org/la-data.do and

(f) Social Enterprises and Community Interest Companies (CICs). (and any future successors to these organisations),

The framework agreement is being procured in four lots:

Lot 1: Planning and Scoping
Lot 2: Development and Implementation
Lot 3: Monitoring, Evaluation and Follow-up
Lot 4: A multi-function lot that encompasses a combination of any or all of lots 1 to 3.

More information

Links

Additional text

The procurement procedure is being managed through NHS Commercial Solutions e-tendering portal (see link below).

About the buyer

Contact name

NHS Commercial Solutions

Address

The Atrium, Curtis Road
Dorking
RH4 1XA
England

Email

derek.howe@nhs.net