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Awarded · ResultStage · contract

NHS Commercial Solutions

Framework Agreement for the Provision of Social Marketing Services

Business ServicesCPV 79342000
Value£20.0m
Awarded22 May 2017
Published21 Apr 2017
RegionUK-wide
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£20.0mtotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£21.6m

This is a large award for Business Services — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 57,319 valued Business Services tenders in our corpus.

The brief

Focussed primarily on health, Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Trust, on behalf of NHS Commercial Solutions, as the Contracting Authority is seeking to procure a collaborative framework agreement for the provision of social marketing services to develop activities aimed at changing or maintaining people's behaviour for the benefit of different population groups in different geographical areas.

The service will, as directed by the Procuring Authorities, plan, scope, develop, implement, monitor and evaluate a social marketing service to gain a greater insight into individual and group behaviour and design and implement effective information campaigns and service interventions for specific target groups.

The public sector bodies to whom the use of this framework agreement will be open include, in particular, the following in the United Kingdom and their respective statutory successors and organisations created as a result of re-organisations or organisational changes, and any private sector entities having similar procurement needs: (a) National Health Service (NHS) bodies in England, including acute Trusts (including those operating community hospitals and the provider functions of the former Primary Care Trusts), Care Trusts, Mental Health Trusts, Ambulance Trusts, any of which may be an NHS Foundation Trust, and Clinical Support Units (CSU's), Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCG's), General Practitioners and General Practitioner commissioning consortia, Special Health Authorities and Area Teams. (See http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/NHSTrustListing.aspx); (b) Health Boards, NHS Trusts, Community Health Councils and other constituent bodies of the NHS in Wales (http://www.wales.nhs.uk/nhswalesaboutus/structure); (c) NHS Scotland and its constituent bodies including: the Scottish Ambulance Service, Special NHS Boards and the other constituent organisations of the Scottish National Health Service (http://www.scot.nhs.uk/organisations/); (d) Health and Social Care Trusts, Health Agencies and other constituent bodies of the Health and Social Care Service in Northern Ireland (http://online.hscni.net/); (e) Local Authorities, a list of such authorities being available at: http://www.idea.gov.uk/idk/org/la-data.do and (f) Social Enterprises and Community Interest Companies (CICs). (and any future successors to these organisations), The framework agreement is being procured in four lots: Lot 1: Planning and Scoping Lot 2: Development and Implementation Lot 3: Monitoring, Evaluation and Follow-up Lot 4: A multi-function lot that encompasses a combination of any or all of lots 1 to 3.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

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The service will, as directed by

The service will, as directed by the Procuring Authorities, plan, scope, develop, implement, monitor and evaluate a social marketing service to gain a greater insight into individual and group behaviour and design and implement effective information campaigns and service interventions for specific target groups.

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