Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2019-04-29
Buyer: London Borough of Hillingdon
Country: UK
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 85000000 | 85100000: Health services
Estimated value: 350000 GBP
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The Council is seeking tenders from sufficiently experience and qualify providers for the provision of smoking cessation service and NHS Health Check Programme.
The Smoking Cessation service provider will be expected to provide general advice, information and signposting to LBH Residents and also those registered with an LBH GP. Advanced interventions i.e.: use of pharmacotherapy should be considered only for individuals who meet all of the eligibility criteria.
The Council requires a reduction in smoking prevalence in each of the above priority groups, with a general reduction in smoking prevalence across Hillingdon overall. Improvement is also expected when comparing Hillingdon’s smoking prevalence to London and England prevalence levels.
— ensure that service providers and healthcare professionals are trained to a level 2 standard or equivalent to provide evidenced based smoking cessation support to clients,
— undertake local campaigns/outreach to raise awareness of the harm of smoking, to promote attempts to quit smoking, and to prevent uptake of smoking by young people,
— help manage the addiction, awareness and intervention for users of other tobacco products such as shisha and chewing tobacco,
We require a provider to deliver smoking cessation services that adheres to guidance from Public Health England, the Department of Health and the National Institute of Health and Care excellence (NICE). This includes providing behavioural support combined with licensed smoking cessation pharmacotherapy such as Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT), Varenicline (Champix) and Bupropion (Zyban).
In order to bring stop smoking services closer to service users, the provider will be expected to deliver smoking cessation services from locations which are geographically accessible to service users from all Hillingdon wards.
The Council wishes to commission an organisation(s) to provide NHS Health Checks for Hillingdon residents who meet the national eligibility criteria. In Hillingdon, there are currently around 78 000 people who are eligible for an NHS Health Check. Each year, the service provider(s) will be required to:
— invite 20 % of the eligible population in Hillingdon to ensure that all eligible people receive an invitation for an NHS Health Check every 5 years,
— deliver an NHS Health Check for at least 15 % of the invited eligible population, which would equate to a minimum take-up rate of 75 %.
The service provider(s) will be expected to deliver all of the assessments stated above. NHS Health Check results will need to be transferred to GP patient records with minimal impact on GP practice workload.
The service provider(s) will need to collect good quality data and their IT system will need to work seamlessly with local GP clinical records systems. They will need to be able to manage:
The service provider will need to be compliant with all current information governance requirements including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Caldicott II.
The NHS Health Check is one of the mandated Public Health functions for local authorities. It is a national risk assessment, awareness and management programme for the population aged 40 to 74 who do not have an existing cardiovascular illness. The programme is aimed at preventing heart disease, stroke, Type 2 diabetes, kidney disease and dementia.


Winner: Central and North West London Foundation NHS Trust
Award value: 350000
Number of bids: 2