Awarded contract

Regional Tobacco Control and Alcohol De-Normalisation Programme

Details

Buyer: Durham County Council
Supplier(s): Fresh and Balance (Hosted by County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust)
Value: £4,500,000
Topic: Research and development services and related consultancy services
Published: 31 January 2025
Source: uk:find_a_tender

Tender description

To provide a specialised programme to support the effective delivery of a multi-component, evidence based, tobacco control and alcohol de-normalisation programme across the whole North East region. Provide a common vision, focus and consistency to comprehensive and sustained activity designed to reduce smoking prevalence and alcohol-related harms. The contract value is estimated for the contract period and extension option. This is to allow for unknown but potential additional funding (for example from central govt) to be used within this contract delivery. Equally if contract budget were reduced service delivery would be re-scoped accordingly. Lot 1: To provide a specialised programme to support the effective delivery of a multi-component, evidence based, tobacco control and alcohol de-normalisation programme across the whole North East region.

Timeline

Completed: Award published31 January 2025
Current notice
Completed: Award date31 January 2025

About the buyer

Durham County Council delivers local government services across County Durham, and buys as a local authority with its own corporate procurement team. Tenders and quotations are handled through the NEPO OPEN Portal, the council's online etendering system. Larger opportunities also appear on the government's Find a Tender Service under the Procurement Act 2023. Durham is one of twelve north-east councils sourcing goods and services through the North East Procurement Organisation. Specialist professional services can be sourced through the Bloom NEPRO framework across nineteen categories. The council also procures on behalf of additional public bodies beyond Durham itself.

UK local government drives £140bn in annual procurement, led by social protection (£66.6bn) and education (£57.1bn).

Over the past 5 years, most of Durham County Council's contract awards have been in health and social work, construction work and transport equipment.

Relevant CPV codes

73000000 · Research and development services and related consultancy services

Decision makers

Connect with the people behind this procurement.

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