--- title: "0-19 Public Health Nursing Service (PHNS) Healthy Child Programme" ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-06bc0e" canonical_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-h6vhtk-06bc0e" markdown_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-06bc0e.md" json_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-06bc0e.json" source: "Find A Tender Service" current_stage: "Planning" buyer: "SHROPSHIRE COUNCIL" published: "2026-06-24" --- # 0-19 Public Health Nursing Service (PHNS) Healthy Child Programme Buyer: SHROPSHIRE COUNCIL Current stage: Planning OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-06bc0e [View canonical contract page](https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-h6vhtk-06bc0e) [Download OCDS JSON](https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-06bc0e.json) ## Summary The procurement process is led by Shropshire Council, located in Shrewsbury, United Kingdom, focusing on the 0–19 Public Health Nursing Service (PHNS) under the Healthy Child Programme. This initiative falls within the health services industry category, serving the UKG22 region. Currently, it is in the planning stage with an early market engagement phase scheduled. Interested providers must submit their responses via an electronic tender portal by 15 July 2026. Subsequent virtual meetings are arranged between 12 and 19 August 2026. The contract aims to deliver comprehensive nursing support across a broad age range, including special provisions for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), and spans several years starting from 1 October 2027. This tender presents significant business growth opportunities, particularly for organisations specialising in comprehensive health services or community health solutions. Firms with expertise in delivering integrated health programmes within rural settings, such as Shropshire, stand well-positioned to compete successfully. Companies can benefit from this contract by showcasing their capability to execute the mandated elements of the Healthy Child Programme while adapting to local priorities. Additionally, there is an interest in providers that can offer innovative digital solutions and robust partnership working to enhance service delivery. The engagement process invites providers to shape future commissioning strategies by discussing topics like workforce challenges, integration with local services, and service affordability, thereby opening avenues for organisations to influence and participate in the design of future health services in the region. ## Notice This early market engagement to support decisions for Shropshire Council's future commissioning intentions for the 0-19 Public Health Nursing Service (PHNS), including health visiting, school nursing, and the Family Nurse Partnership, and up to age 25 for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). It provides potential providers with background information on the service requirements, the current policy context, local needs, and the key lines of enquiry commissioners want to explore through market engagement. This is not the start of a formal procurement process. The Council is seeking market views to inform service design, delivery expectations, affordability, and future commissioning. The commissioned service includes health visiting, school nursing, and the Family Nurse Partnership, providing universal, targeted, and specialist public health nursing support across the 0-19 pathway and up to age 25, where relevant, for young people with SEND. The service is expected to deliver the mandated elements of the Healthy Child Programme and associated public health requirements, while also contributing to wider local priorities and integrated pathways. Commissioners' preference is for a provider that can deliver the whole service, rather than separate elements of it. Commissioners will expect any future model to demonstrate how it will safely and consistently deliver, monitor and evaluate core programme requirements; respond proportionately to need; support early identification and intervention; contribute to safeguarding and early help pathways; improve access and outcomes for vulnerable groups; use population data to target support; and work effectively within Shropshire's locality and family hub model. Providers will also need to demonstrate a clear workforce model, strong governance and clinical leadership, effective partnership working, and a practical approach to digital access, estates, rural delivery, and performance reporting. As part of the pre-market engagement, Commissioners are seeking input from providers on the following: *How to deliver a safe, equitable, and sustainable 0-19 public health nursing offer across a large rural county *Workforce availability, recruitment, retention, supervision, and skill mix in the context of national shortages *How the refreshed Healthy Child Programme guidance can be implemented in a practical, outcomes-focused way *The role of locality delivery, open-access models, digital approaches, and family hub integration *How providers would work with partners across maternity, primary care, education, early help, safeguarding, and the voluntary sector *How services can reduce inequalities and meet the needs of vulnerable groups, including children with SEND, rural communities, and families with more complex needs *Data, outcomes, performance monitoring, and how providers would demonstrate impact and effectiveness *The affordability and financial assumptions needed to support a viable model, including estate and mobilisation requirements *How the voice of the child will be embedded and systematically captured. For more information about this opportunity, please visit the eSourcing portal at: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-UK-Shrewsbury:-Health-services./89BS9K23YQ To respond to this opportunity, please click here: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/respond/89BS9K23YQ ### Planning Information This engagement exercise is for information gathering purposes only and does not constitute a formal procurement. Participation in this engagement will not advantage or disadvantage any organisation in any subsequent procurement. Commissioners will take appropriate measures to ensure that competition is not distorted by participation in this engagement. Information provided may be used to inform Shropshire Council’s requirements and procurement approach and may be shared, in anonymised or aggregated form, with other potential providers. Providers should clearly identify any information they consider to be commercially sensitive. This engagement is intended to inform the Council’s understanding of the market and future commissioning options. It does not commit the Council to any specific commissioning route or procurement process, and information shared during engagement will not be used to assess providers in any future procurement. Providers are encouraged to share views openly on opportunities, risks, innovation, delivery models, and market constraints. Engagement process description Interested providers are invited to respond to the pre-market engagement questions attached. Responses must be submitted via our electronic tender portal www.delta-esourcing.com by 17:00 on Wednesday 15 July 2026. Pre-market engagement provider meetings will be held virtually between 12 and 19 August 2026. ## Key Details | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication source | Find A Tender Service | | Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/059377-2026 | | 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 | 24 Jun 2026 | | Submission deadline | Not specified | | Future notice date | 15 Jul 2026 | | Award date | Not specified | | Contract period | 30 Sep 2027 - 30 Sep 2030 | | Recurrence | Not specified | ## Values | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender value | £25,296,850 | | 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 | SHROPSHIRE COUNCIL | | Locality | SHREWSBURY | | Post town | Shrewsbury | | Postcode | SY3 8HQ | | Country | England | | ITL 1 | TLG West Midlands (England) | | ITL 2 | TLG2 Shropshire and Staffordshire | | ITL 3 | TLG22 Shropshire | | Local authority | Shropshire | | Electoral ward | Porthill | | Westminster constituency | Shrewsbury | | Delivery location | TLG22 Shropshire | ## CPV Codes ### Divisions - 85 - Health and social work services ### Codes - 85100000 - Health services - 85141200 - Services provided by nurses - 85323000 - Community health services ## Release History - 24 Jun 2026 at 11:29 - Planning - UK2 - Preliminary Market Engagement Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/059377-2026 ## Documents - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/059377-2026 24th June 2026 - Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender ## Notice URLs - https://www.delta-esourcing.com/respond/89BS9K23YQ - https://www.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-UK-Shrewsbury:-Health-services./89BS9K23YQ - https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/54/contents ## Provenance This Markdown file is an alternate public rendering of the D3 Tenders contract record. 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