TOWER HAMLETS SELF MANAGEMENT SUPPORT SERVICE

NHS North East London Integrated Care Board is seeking to commission Tower Hamlets Self-Management Support Service. This is a Cardiovascular Disease (CVD), Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) Hypertension and Diabetes Self-Management Support Service. The provision of essential support services aimed at empowering individuals living with these chronic conditions to actively manage their health and well-being.

The service will focus on increasing the knowledge, skills, and confidence of its users and to promote independence. The Provider will actively mitigate against the participants developing a dependency on the service by promoting independence and exploring ways for people to implement and sustain activity following programme end.

For people with type two diabetes, the programme should ultimately support people to attend X-PERT diabetes education programme via https://www.bartshealth.nhs.uk/community-diabetes-service/ as recommended by NICE guidance

https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng28/chapter/Recommendations#individualised-care

Please refer to the service specification document for further information on the service.

The estimated total Value of the Contract is £577,725. The total value is based on an annual value of £115,545 per year. The Contract will be for an initial period of 3 years with the possibility of an extension for 2 years at the discretion of the ICB. The service is expected to commence in October 2024.

Interested organisation must express an interest via Atamis e-tendering portal. Bidders needs to register on Atamis if they are not registered already. This can be done by clicking the below link.

https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome

Once registered, you can express an interest in this project by clicking the following link to this specific project: https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome (Contract Reference: C285210)

Bidders are requested to review the contents of the RfQ guidance document carefully, register their organisation, and express their interest in the RfQ via the e-tendering portal (Atamis). RfQ documentation can be accessed following initial registration and expression of interest via the e-tendering portal: Contract Reference C285210

Any reference to "the e-tendering portal" should be considered reflective of the above web address. The RfQ has been issued through the e-tendering portal. All Bidders wishing to participate must complete and submit Bids that comply with the requirements set out in the RfQ document. Bidders are required to upload any attachments as indicated before the deadline for submission of bids specified in the RfQ document.

The deadline for the submission of tender is 1700hrs on 3rd June 2024

The deadline for any clarification questions is 1700hrs on 28th May 2024. All clarification questions must be submitted via the messaging facility on Atamis.

Please note that bids submitted by any other means will not be considered.