Primary Care Stop Smoking Services
The procurement contact named on the official notice.
This sits in the upper-middle of the Health & Social Care band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 32,734 valued Health & Social Care tenders in our corpus.
The service is to provide universal stop smoking services in the borough of South Tyneside through GP practices and community pharmacies.
Providers will work in partnership with South Tyneside Council, specialist services and the NHS in a whole system approach focused on: • Delivering timely, evidence-based, personalised, proactive and fair stop smoking services in South Tyneside. • Providing high quality, person-centred and compassionate behavioural support which supports individuals to quit smoking & restart quit attempts after relapses. • Offering access to evidence-based pharmacotherapies / nicotine containing products, focusing on the most effective and popular options. • Delivering targeted and more intensive support using outreach methods to priority population groups. • Promoting prevention, early intervention, harm reduction, and making every contact count (MECC) principles. • Developing local strategies to reduce smoking prevalence, tackle smoking related health inequalities and strengthen health promotion communications on smoking.
What the supplier must deliver
The service is to provide universal stop
The service is to provide universal stop smoking services in the borough of South Tyneside through GP practices and community pharmacies.
Providing high quality, person-centred and compassionate behavioural
Providing high quality, person-centred and compassionate behavioural support which supports individuals to quit smoking & restart quit attempts after relapses.
Delivering targeted and more intensive support using
Delivering targeted and more intensive support using outreach methods to priority population groups.
Derived from the notice text — always confirm against the original documents.
What it takes to bid this
Typical UK bid effort for the £100k–£1m band — an estimate, not a quote.
Qualify & bid/no-bid ~10% · SQ / PQQ ~20% · Written response ~55% · Review & presentation ~15%
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- Hold at bidCQC registration / safeguarding policies
- Plan for deliveryDBS-checked staff & vetting process
- Plan for deliveryTUPE (incumbent staff often transfer)
- Show at bidComparable references / case studies
- Hold at bidFinancial standing (accounts, often ~2× contract value turnover)
- Hold at bidInsurance cover (PL / EL, often PI)
- Show at bidSocial value commitments
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- tender · Open
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