NICE Economic Analysis - exposure to air pollution from road traffic

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE or ‘the Institute’) is an independent organisation responsible for providing national guidance on promoting good health and preventing and treating disease. Within NICE the Public Health and Social Care Centre (PHSCC) is responsible for producing public health and social care guidelines.

The PHSCC is developing public health guidance on “Air pollution: outdoor air quality and health”. The focus of the work in on air pollution relating to road transport.

There are two components associated with the guidance development:

This requirement specification is for component 2 only – an economic analysis of approaches to reduce exposure to pollution from road traffic.

Component 1 will be undertaken by the PHSCC Internal Guidelines technical team.

The findings of the economic analysis will be considered by the NICE Public Health Advisory Committee (PHAC) as the basis for their recommendations. The contractor should be able to start work from December 2015. The contractor will be provided with funding for the analysis to be undertaken over the period of guidance development (December 2015 – September 2017, however the bulk of the work will need to be completed between December 2015 – September 2016.

PHSCC welcomes tenders for this work from individual organisations or consortia of organisations. Where an organisation joins with a partner / consortia to submit a joint proposal, in line with public sector best practice, NICE will only contract with the lead bidding organisation.