Tier 3 Specialist Weight Management Services

For the provision of Adult Specialist Weight Management Services - Tier 3 ("the Service") across the City of Leeds.

NHS Leeds Clinical Commissioning Group (the "Contracting Authority") is offering a contract to the successful Bidder to provide Tier 3 weight management services which are are a local pre-requisite in the NHSE eligibility criteria for Tier 4 surgical services and are also integral to tiered management for obesity and weight management services.

The overarching aim of the service is to improve physical, emotional, psychological and social functioning for people with severe and complex obesity by the provision of a service designed to promote and sustain weight loss for a period of 12-18 months (this timescale is flexible depending on service model and patient need). It is anticipated that this will be achieved by:

Full details of the Service are provided within the Service Specification (see 'Service Specification Contract and other Relevant Information' within ITT Document 2), providing some helpful supplementary information about the commissioning intentions of the Contracting Authority.

The Contract intended to be offered to the successful Bidder at the end of this Procurement will be for a duration of 3 years, which is intended to run from 01/04/2019 until 31/3/2022 with the possibility of up to 2 extensions of a further 1 year each, subject to any restrictions placed nationally by NHS England or the Department of Health.

The anticipated, maximum total contract value (including any potential extensions, but excluding a further 5% quality incentive payable on outcomes to be agreed during the mobilisation period) is £1,900,000