--- title: "Personalised Pathways to Healthy Weight" ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-069e6d" canonical_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-h6vhtk-069e6d" markdown_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-069e6d.md" json_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-069e6d.json" source: "Find A Tender Service" current_stage: "Planning" buyer: "NHS DORSET INTEGRATED CARE BOARD" published: "2026-05-21" --- # Personalised Pathways to Healthy Weight Buyer: NHS DORSET INTEGRATED CARE BOARD Current stage: Planning OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-069e6d [View canonical contract page](https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-h6vhtk-069e6d) [Download OCDS JSON](https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-069e6d.json) ## Summary NHS Dorset Integrated Care Board is in the planning stage of a procurement process titled "Personalised Pathways to Healthy Weight," targeting the services industry, specifically community health services. The procurement aims to develop and implement personalised weight management services in the Dorset region, encompassing UKK24 and UKK25. A preliminary market engagement notice was issued on 21 May 2026, with NHS Dorset inviting participation in an in-person networking event scheduled for 3 June 2026 in Bournemouth. The deadline for event registration is 1 June 2026, while booking for 1:1 sessions with NHS Dorset leads is open until 5 June 2026. The contract period for the planned project runs from 1 September 2026 to 31 March 2029, highlighting its strategic importance in addressing obesity and promoting healthy lifestyles. This tender offers significant prospects for businesses involved in health, digital solutions, and community services to expand their reach and establish partnerships with the NHS. Organisations with expertise in digital health platforms, behaviour change, inclusive service design, and care system integration are ideal candidates to engage in this process. The contract seeks a prime provider as a system integrator and additional organisations to deliver complementary services, including digital and behavioural interventions. This engagement represents a strategic opportunity for companies to co-create innovative solutions addressing public health challenges and position themselves as key players in the community health domain, aiding in the reduction of health inequalities. ## Notice NHS Dorset ICB, along with partners Health Innovation Wessex and Bournemouth University, would like to invite potential partners, providers and innovators to a soft market engagement conversation, with an opportunity to co-design personalised pathways to healthy weight for underserved populations in Dorset. This work builds on NHS Dorset's commitment to reducing childhood obesity by 2040 (Outcome 2 - NHS Dorset https://nhsdorset.nhs.uk/voice/jointforwardplan/outcome-2/) and improving access, experience and outcomes for people living with unhealthy weight and obesity, most recently supporting access to medicated and non-medicated pathways for adults in line with the NICE Technology Appraisal NG246 (Weight management - NHS Dorset https://nhsdorset.nhs.uk/health/medicines/weight/) Our aim is to further transform weight management services in Dorset, by developing and testing an inclusive, community-based model that addresses the persistent inequalities in access, experience and outcomes for underserved populations and tackles the underlying causes of obesity. Our objectives are to: * Co-produce and test innovative models of care that integrate pharmacological, digital, and behavioural approaches for healthy weight. * Reduce health inequalities by improving access to care for underserved populations, including for people with experience of the care system; people with learning disabilities; people with special educational needs and disabilities; and mental health service users. * Build capacity within our workforce and communities to support sustained healthy lifestyles and self-management. * Embed a whole-system, data-driven approach to tackling obesity as a major driver of long-term conditions * Enable real-world evaluation and learning that can inform national policy and future service commissioning. The Dorset Model proposes to: * Recruit participants to the programme by pro-actively case finding through our Dorset Insight and Intelligence Service (DiiS) and through trusted people and places, making every contact count. * Offer a personalised multi-disciplinary team conversation, which recognises the lived experience of participants, and provides a tailored care plan, with support from a lead professional or coach. * Deliver personalised pathways to health weight through evidence-informed and co-produced interventions. This might include; in-person groups, remote groups, digital technologies (platforms/wearables), pharmacological and in-service pathways, for individuals, families and carers, and communities. * Integrate new care pathways and interventions with existing system weight management services, to support both sustainable healthy weight on discharge for individuals and better access to standard care for family, carer, and community members. * Build knowledge, skills and confidence in our health, social care and VCSE workforce, including paid and unpaid roles. NHS Dorset anticipates procuring suitably qualified provider(s) to: (1) A Prime Provider to act as System Integrator for the Programme, who may choose to deliver some or all elements of the new service(s). (2) Organisation(s) to deliver new services, including digital, behavioural, lifestyle and health improvement, with individuals, families, carers and communities. (3) Organisation(s) to deliver workforce development. ### Planning Information NHS Dorset ICB welcomes engagement from organisations with relevant expertise, including but not limited to: • Providers with demonstrable expertise in leading and delivering System Integration, specifically to improve access to health and/or social care services. • Collaborative consortia combining digital, clinical, and community delivery capability. • Digital health and behaviour change platform providers with NHS experience. • VCSE and community organisations with experience delivering lifestyle, physical activity, or peer support programmes. • Providers specialising in inclusive and accessible service design including for people with experience of the care system; people with learning disabilities; people with special educational needs and disabilities; and mental health service users. • Organisations who have experience of co-designing and delivering workforce development, which builds the knowledge, skills and confidence for healthy weight conversations. We are particularly interested in hearing from people and organisations who work with underserved populations including for people with experience of the care system; people with learning disabilities; people with special educational needs and disabilities; and mental health service users. Providers, partners and innovators interested in engaging with this opportunity are invited to: • Use the link below to register to attend an In-Person networking event: on Wednesday 3rd June, 9.00am - 2pm at Bournemouth Gateway Building, Bournemouth University, St Paul's Lane, Bournemouth, Dorset, England, BH8 8GP https://www.eventbrite.com/e/personalised-pathways-to-healthy-weight-tickets-1986058876563?aff=oddtdtcreator Deadline for registrations 01 June 2026 • Request a 30 minute 1:1 session with NHS Dorset Lead(s): please email phm@nhsdorset.nhs.uk to be booked on Monday 8th June or Thursday 11th June. Deadline for bookings 05 June 2026 RIGHT TO CANCEL OR VARY THIS EXPRESSION OF INTEREST NHS Dorset ICB reserves the right to: - Cancel all or part of this EOI at any stage and at any time; - Amend, clarify, add to or withdraw all or part of the EOI at any time - Not proceed with a contract award. Nothing shall constitute a commitment to ordering unless NHS Dorset ICB undertake a procurement process that results in the award of a contract. GENERAL This EOI is being conducted in line with The Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023 Any and all costs associated with the production of such a response to an EOI must be borne by the potential Economic Operator. We will not contribute in any way to meeting production costs of any response. Information contained within this document is confidential and must not be revealed to any third party without prior written consent from us. We expect that all responses to this EOI will be provided by potential Economic Operator in good faith to the best of their ability in the light of information available at the time of their response. GENERAL CONTACT POINT Name: Joanne Wilson Position: Strategic Lead for Prevention Email Address: phm@nhsdorset.nhs.uk ## Key Details | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication source | Find A Tender Service | | Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/046776-2026 | | Notice type | UK2 - Preliminary Market Engagement 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 | 21 May 2026 | | Submission deadline | Not specified | | Future notice date | 12 Jun 2026 | | Award date | Not specified | | Contract period | 31 Aug 2026 - 31 Mar 2029 | | Recurrence | Not specified | ## Values | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender value | Not specified | | Lots value | Not specified | | Awards value | Not specified | | Contracts value | Not specified | ## Status | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender status | Planning | | Lots status | Planning | | Awards status | Not specified | | Contracts status | Not specified | ## Buyer | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Main buyer | NHS DORSET INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | | Locality | DORCHESTER | | Post town | Dorchester | | Postcode | DT1 1XJ | | Country | England | | ITL 1 | TLK South West (England) | | ITL 2 | TLK6 North Somerset, Somerset and Dorset | | ITL 3 | TLK64 Dorset | | Local authority | Dorset | | Electoral ward | Dorchester West | | Westminster constituency | West Dorset | | Delivery location | TLK24 Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, TLK25 Dorset | ## CPV Codes ### Divisions - 85 - Health and social work services ### Codes - 85323000 - Community health services ## Release History - 21 May 2026 at 08:20 - Planning - UK2 - Preliminary Market Engagement Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/046776-2026 ## Documents - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/046776-2026 21st May 2026 - Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender ## Notice URLs - https://nhsdorset.nhs.uk/health/medicines/weight/ - https://nhsdorset.nhs.uk/voice/jointforwardplan/outcome-2/ - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/personalised-pathways-to-healthy-weight-tickets-1986058876563?aff=oddtdtcreator - https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/54/contents ## Provenance This Markdown file is an alternate public rendering of the D3 Tenders contract record. The canonical page is https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-h6vhtk-069e6d. The underlying structured data is available as OCDS JSON at https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-069e6d.json.