Healthy Lifestyles Service

Gloucestershire County Council is seeking to award a contract for an Integrated Healthy Lifestyles Service. Key priorities of the service will be to reduce health inequalities, increase long term health outcomes and improve quality of life for Gloucestershire residents. Interest is sought from suitably qualified and experienced organisations to provide these services across the whole county of Gloucestershire.

Our vision for Gloucestershire’s Healthy Lifestyles Service is for a flexible and responsive Service that supports Customers to make sustainable changes in behaviour. There should be a clear offer, easily understood and navigated by both professionals and the public, accessible via a single point of access. The emphasis will be on enabling people to self-care where possible, but with options for enhanced support for those who most need it. The quality of the Customer experience (both public and professional) together with the ability of the Provider to engage effectively with Customers whose needs are greatest is paramount to the success of this Service and its role as a system enabler. We are looking to work with a Provider that shares our ambition and can develop a responsive healthy lifestyles offer to meet the needs of Gloucestershire residents.

The estimated scope of the contract is between 11 600 000 GBP and 12 542 000 GBP. These figures represent the estimated initial contract value through to the estimated total contract value assuming all extensions are granted. These figures are for guidance only and are subject to change.

The initial contract period is 5 years and 3 months and at the end of the initial contract term at the Councils discretion this contract may be extended by up to an additional 2 years.

To express an interest in this tendering opportunity and to be able to access and download the Invitation to Tender and all other relevant documentation you will need to register onto the e-procurement portal. www.supplyingthesouthwest.org.uk.

Additional information: The chosen Provider will be expected to deliver a fully integrated service covering all of the following functions:

Function 1 - Self-Care Offer

Function 2 - Behavioural Support to make a lifestyle change Function 3 - Targeted prevention programmes

Function 4 - Healthy settings facilitation

Function 5 - Training and capacity building for health behaviour change