Market Engagement - Lifecourse Healthy Weight Services

Tender description

Oxfordshire County Council's existing adult and child weight management contracts are due to expire in summer 2024. The Council requires on-going services and are intending to commission a lifecourse healthy weight service. It is important to ensure that a newly commissioned service meets current and future needs by building upon evidence, national guidance and local insight, whilst also developing and delivering new and innovative ways of working with our priority communities. We would therefore welcome views from providers that are keen to build upon our great work in this area. The Council is inviting prospective tenderers to complete a questionnaire to provide insight to support the development of the service requirements. The aim of this exercise is to understand the provider market, current and emerging practice, as well as the likely level of interest in the procurement activity the Council is due to carry out. We would appreciate an opportunity to develop relationships with providers and gain insights into how organisations could approach provision of a healthy weight service for Oxfordshire. This will help the Council to develop a service model that is both sustainable and leverages the markets capabilities and capacities. Feedback from this market research will be provided via an online session in September. The Invitation to Tender for these services is anticipated to be published in January 2024. The intended contract period will be 54 months (4.5 years), with an option to extend the contract period by a further 36 months (3 years). The questionnaire is accessible via the South East Business Portal ( https://sebp.due-north.com/ ). The project reference within the portal is DN682472. Prospective providers can register their interest in this opportunity and download the questionnaire via the portal. The market engagement is due to close for responses on Monday 21 August at 12:00 (Midday).