Published date: 26 February 2024

Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.


Closing: 31 May 2022, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Health and social work services - 85000000

Location of contract

NN11 2PD

Value of contract

£10,000 to £90,000

Procurement reference

PH0001

Published date

26 February 2024

Closing date

31 May 2022

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

5 July 2022

Contract end date

4 July 2023

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (below threshold)

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

This procedure can be used for procurements below the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

The Well Northants programme aims to empower communities so they can become more connected, more resilient and improve their wellbeing and is key to addressing health inequalities. Public Health and the Communities Teams in West and North Northamptonshire Councils have recruited six community development workers who will work with communities who are most vulnerable to poor health outcomes, such as those who are living in areas of deprivation, isolation and 'inclusion health' groups, who are extremely vulnerable. The Community Development Workers will work with communities in their target areas to understand local needs and what is available locally already, and then work in partnership with those communities to develop interventions to improve health and wellbeing.

The six most deprived areas in the county were identified using IMD, 2019. This programme of work will be key to the levelling up agenda, and the anti-poverty strategy. Four community development workers will take a focus on these areas, two each. A further two workers, one for the West and one for the North will work with inclusion health groups. All of these workers have now started.

The initiative will include a grants programme to enable local communities to coproduce interventions that meet the identified needs of people in each community.

Grants
The CDWs will have access to a pot of money to issue grants to use to put in place interventions to address local need and these will be designed in partnership with communities. Empowering communities is central to this programme and so we are proposing to use participatory budgeting, which directly involves communities in making decisions about how to spend public money.

West and North Northamptonshire Councils do not have a current participatory budgeting policy and do not have any experience of issuing funding in this way. Therefore, we are looking for an expert in this way of working to support us to develop policy and processes for using participatory budgeting and to facilitate participatory budgeting workshops in the community, working closely with the community development workers. This is to specifically support the Well Northants project.

To apply you must complete a Request for Quotation Form and return it to chloe.gay@northnorthants.gov.uk

More information

Previous notice about this procurement

Participatory Budgetting implmentation

  • Opportunity
  • Published 6 May 2022

Attachments

  • Request For Quotation PB.docx
  • Tender notice
  • Request for Quotation Document for implementing participatory budgeting as part of the Well Northants programme.

Award information

Awarded date

30 June 2022

Contract start date

5 July 2022

Contract end date

4 July 2023

Total value of contract

£89,524

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Northampton University

Address

Waterside Campus
University Drive
Northampton
NN1 5PH

Reference

No reference - other

Value of contract

£89,524

Supplier is SME?

Yes

Supplier is VCSE?

Yes

Additional details

Grant Agreeement

About the buyer

Contact name

Chloe Gay

Address

The Cube,George Street
CORBY
NN168TL
England

Telephone

07795807118

Email

chloe.gay@northnorthants.gov.uk