Tier 2 Weight Management Services for Children and Young People in Norfolk

Concepts

• health and social work
• norwich
• miscellaneous health services
• health services
• healthy weight
• norfolk county council
• norfolk
• young people
• a healthy weight
• children

Location

Norfolk

Description

Norfolk County Council is seeking to procure a Tier 2 Weight Management Service for Children and Young People in Norfolk. The Service will commence on the 1st of October 2024. The Provider will be expected to deliver evidence-based interventions to support Children and Young People (CYP) who are identified as overweight or obese (Over 91st Centile) within a whole family approach. The ambition is to have an appropriate, developmental approach and to implement an intervention programme offering up to a 12-week programme of support to CYP who are motivated to realise and maintain a healthy weight. The Service will cover the whole of Norfolk and be available for CYP aged 4 to 18 years. This service is to be delivered in two age strands.

Total Quantity or Scope

Norfolk County Council are seeking to procure a Tier 2 Weight Management Service for Children and Young People in Norfolk. … This service is delivered in two age strands. 1. Strand 1 for children aged 4 to 11 years. Programmes in place to support CYP and their families to maintain a healthy weight and adopt a healthy lifestyle. 2. Strand 2 for young people aged 12 to 18 years. Intervention service for young people to gain skills and resilience to maintain healthy weight and adopt healthy life. The programme will be multicomponent that includes diet, nutrition and behaviour change techniques alongside access to physical activity interventions with the focus being behaviour change to provide CYP and their families with a legacy of healthy lifestyle choices. The Provider will ensure access to appropriate expertise in the design of the provision. This will include qualified experts such as Dieticians, Nutritionists, Behaviour change specialists and Physical activity specialists. The provider will build robust pathways with the Tier 1 and Tier 3 weight management provision in Norfolk.

CPV Codes

• 85000000 - Health and social work services
• 85140000 - Miscellaneous health services
• 85100000 - Health services
• 85323000 - Community health services

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Other Information

This procurement will be under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023 - Competitive Process. The estimated value of this procurement is £300,000 per year. The likely contract length is 3 years + possible extension of 2 + 2 years but we will discuss this in the market engagement with Providers. This procurement will be managed electronically via the Council`s e-procurement system. To participate in this procurement, applicants must first be registered on the system at https://in-tendhost.co.uk/norfolkcc. Full instructions for registration and use of the system can be found at https://in-tendhost.co.uk/norfolkcc/aspx/BuyerProfiles. Once registered you will be able to see the procurement project under the `tenders` section and `express an interest. If you encounter any difficulties whilst using the system you can contact the In-tend support team by phoning +44 8442728810 or e-mailing support@in-tend.co.uk. Please note that is this is a Prior Information notice there are no documents, as yet, to view.Norfolk County Council are in the process of commissioning this service. The purpose of the Prior Information Notice is to alert the market and to ascertain the markets interest in this contract. If you are interested in bidding, please do register your interest in our in-tend procurement system. Norfolk County Council is holding supplier engagement on 31st of January 2024. If you are interested, once you have expressed an interest in the project, using the correspondence facility in the system please confirm your interest in attending and the name and email addresses of those individuals who will be attending. It is likely that the supplier engagement will take place via Teams.