COV – Provision of Healthy Babies Best Start Family Hub offer

Coventry City Council is seeking to appoint providers to deliver the COV – Provision of Healthy Babies Best Start Family Hub offer, following the award of national Best Start for Life and Healthy Babies funding to strengthen and expand services across Coventry.

The funding will support the delivery of the nationally mandated Infant Feeding and Perinatal Mental Health core workstreams. The programme aims to improve mental health and wellbeing outcomes for parents and parents-to-be of children under the age of two, while also improving infant feeding outcomes, with a particular focus on specialist support during pregnancy and the first 0–10 days after birth.

The Council is seeking to appoint a provider for each lot.

Lots Available

The contract has been divided into two lots:

• Lot 1 – Perinatal Mental Health and Parent-Infant Relationships
  Estimated value: £225,000
• Lot 2 – Infant Feeding
  Estimated value: £240,000

Both contracts will run for 30 months.

Contract Information

Buyer – Coventry City Council

Deadline – 1 September 2026 – 12:00pm

Contract Value – £465,000 (excluding VAT)

Delivery Length – 30 months

Tender Link – Click here

Evaluation Criteria

Price is not the only award criterion. Full evaluation criteria and the relative importance of each criterion are contained within the tender documentation.

Procurement Information

The procurement is being conducted using the Open Procedure under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023 through a Competitive Process.

The Council has confirmed that the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 and the Procurement Act 2023 do not apply to this procurement.

Tender documentation available through the Council’s e-tendering portal includes submission instructions, required bid information, contract award criteria, assessment methodology and details of the procurement process.

The opportunity reflects Coventry City Council’s continued investment in improving outcomes for babies, parents and families through enhanced perinatal mental health support and specialist infant feeding services delivered as part of the Best Start for Life programme.

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