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title: "Essex Community Wellbeing Service"
ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-0294e2"
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current_stage: "Planning"
buyer: "ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL"
published: "2021-02-22"
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# Essex Community Wellbeing Service

Buyer: ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL  
Current stage: Planning  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-0294e2

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## Summary

The Essex County Council is planning a tender for the "Essex Community Wellbeing Service," which focuses on health and social work services aimed at tackling health inequalities across the region. The procurement process is set to begin, with a total estimated value of £44,840,180, which includes funding for health improvement programmes over a potential maximum contract term of seven years. Key dates include a market engagement event scheduled for 13th April 2021, designed to inform prospective applicants about the requirements of the forthcoming tender.

This tender presents significant opportunities for businesses involved in health improvement services, community well-being initiatives, or social care solutions. Companies specialising in areas such as smoking cessation, weight management, and community-based health programmes will find this tender particularly relevant, especially those with experience in co-designing services with local authorities. Engaging in this procurement could lead to successful collaborations and long-term partnerships to enhance community welfare in Essex.

## Notice

Essex County Council (ECC) is considering options for a Countywide Community Wellbeing and Resilience Service, tackling Health Inequalities at its heart and using new methodology to deliver support for wellbeing at large scale and over time. This service will deliver health improvement programmes, including but not limited to, smoking cessation, weight management and NHS health checks, and will also focus on addressing broader determinants and working directly with communities to harness community assets for wellbeing. Adult Social Care is committed to develop a early help community wellbeing offer across Essex that improves people's independence and wellbeing. Connecting people to information, advice, guidance and tools to promote healthy lives and wellbeing at the earliest point of need, is key to wellbeing. Furthermore this will prevent, reduce or delaying escalation of need, thus managing demand and creating a sustainable future Adult Social Care. Adult Social Care will work with Public Health and the winning provider(s), over the course of the next 12 months to co-design this offer as part of the future service and in principle to investing resource during the term of the contract. The Council would like to invite all prospective applicants to attend an online market engagement event regarding this forthcoming procurement opportunity which will be conducted via Microsoft Teams on Tuesday 13th April 2021 between 14:00 and 16:00. In order to register your attendance at this event, please e-mail: Lorna.Baker@essex.gov.uk Please include your organisational details and confirm the names of the representatives who would like to attend this event within your expression of interest message.

### Lot Information

Lot 1

Essex County Council (ECC) is considering options for a Countywide Community Wellbeing and Resilience Service, tackling Health Inequalities at its heart and using new methodology to deliver support for wellbeing at large scale and over time. This service will deliver health improvement programmes, including but not limited to, smoking cessation, weight management and NHS health checks, and will also focus on addressing broader determinants and working directly with communities to harness community assets for wellbeing. Essex County Council (ECC) is considering options for a Countywide Community Wellbeing and Resilience Service, tackling Health Inequalities at its heart and using new methodology to deliver support for wellbeing at large scale and over time. This service will deliver health improvement programmes, including but not limited to, smoking cessation, weight management and NHS health checks, and will also focus on addressing broader determinants and working directly with communities to harness community assets for wellbeing. Additional information: Please note that the stated contractual value includes the full maximum value of this service including all potential options to extend and proposed social care funding. This is calculated with reference to the committed public health funding over 5 years of PS24,470,000 alongside the proposed social care funding of up to PS2,000,000. In addition, this service incorporates an optional extension period of 2 years, thereby resulting in a maximum 7 year contractual term with a value of PS40,753,800 inclusive of the proposed social care spend. Furthermore, the scope of this procurement will factor an additional 10% flex to enable additional provision due to the inherent developmental nature of this service, this amounts to PS4,076,380. The cumulative maximum value of this service is PS44,840,180.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/003450-2021 |
| Notice type | Planning Notice |
| Procurement type | Standard |
| Procurement category | Services |
| Procurement method | Not Specified |
| Procurement method details | Not specified |
| Tender suitability | Not specified |
| Awardee scale | Not specified |
| All stages | Planning |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 22 Feb 2021 |
| Submission deadline | Not specified |
| Future notice date | 11 Jul 2021 |
| Award date | Not specified |
| Contract period | Not specified |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | £44,840,180 |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | Not specified |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Planned |
| Lots status | Planned |
| Awards status | Not specified |
| Contracts status | Not specified |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL |
| Locality | CHELMSFORD |
| Post town | Chelmsford |
| Postcode | CM1 1QH |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLH East (England) |
| ITL 2 | TLH3 Essex |
| ITL 3 | TLH36 Heart of Essex |
| Local authority | Chelmsford |
| Electoral ward | Moulsham and Central |
| Westminster constituency | Chelmsford |
| Delivery location | TLH3 Essex |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 85 - Health and social work services

### Codes

- 85000000 - Health and social work services

## Release History

- 22 Feb 2021 at 13:11 - Planning - Planning Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/003450-2021

## Notice URLs

- https://supplierlive.proactisp2p.com/Account/Login
- https://www.essex.gov.uk/

## Provenance

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