Framework Agreement for the Provision of Social Marketing Services

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.

Additional information: The procurement procedure is being managed through NHS Commercial Solutions e-tendering portal (see link below).