Health and social work services

Tender description

The Metropolitan Borough Council of Sandwell is seeking expressions of interest from suitably experienced and competent Providers of a NHS Health Check Service. The NHS Health Check Service aims to prevent heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes and kidney disease, and raise awareness of dementia across the population and within high risk and vulnerable groups. In April 2013, the NHS Health Check became a statutory public health service in England. Local authorities are responsible for making provision to offer an NHS Health Check to eligible individuals once every five years. The council therefore require a contractor to identify suitable clients to receive a Health Check and provide an accessible service for clients to attend where they will then receive a Health Check delivered by the contractor followed by tailored feedback for each individual on their future risk of cardiovascular disease and advice on lifestyle and referral to local lifestyle interventions as appropriate. The Metropolitan Borough Council of Sandwell is seeking tenders from suitably experienced and competent Providers of NHS Health Check Services and Participants are advised that as the services sought pursuant to this notice are health services and therefore subject to the ‘light touch regime’ as set out in regulations 74-77 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 it is not subject to the full obligations of the Procurement Directive but are nonetheless subject to the general obligations of transparency, equal treatment and non-discrimination. Participants should not infer from any references to the Authority using a process or tender documents which are similar to one of the mandatory procedures that the Authority is following one of those procedures. The Authority is following its own tender process akin to the Open Procedure for this tender. Further information can be found in the Invitation to tender and all supporting information. The NHS Health Check Service aims to prevent heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes and kidney disease, and raise awareness of dementia across the population and within high risk and vulnerable groups. In April 2013, the NHS Health Check became a statutory public health service in England. Local authorities are responsible for making provision to offer an NHS Health Check to eligible individuals once every five years. The council therefore require a contractor to identify suitable clients to receive a Health Check and provide an accessible service for clients to attend where they will then receive a Health Check delivered by the contractor followed by tailored feedback for each individual on their future risk of cardiovascular disease and advice on lifestyle and referral to local lifestyle interventions as appropriate.