Smoking Cessation Workplace Outreach

Wolverhampton City Council is inviting tenders for a workplace outreach smoking cessation service aimed at employees in routine and manual occupations. The service will provide structured, evidence-based support to help adult smokers quit, improve their health and reduce smoking-related health inequalities across Wolverhampton.

Service Requirements

The successful provider will deliver a proactive workplace-based smoking cessation programme, offering support at times and locations that accommodate employees’ shift patterns, breaks and working hours.

Key requirements include:

• Recruiting and supporting adult smokers working in routine and manual occupations to quit smoking.
• Providing evidence-based smoking cessation treatment and behavioural support.
• Delivering information, advice and guidance, self-help tools and lifestyle interventions.
• Helping participants make positive and sustainable changes to their health-related behaviour.
• Reducing smoking-related illness, disability and premature death.
• Improving access to smoking cessation support for employees in Wolverhampton businesses.
• Addressing smoking-related health inequalities among routine and manual workers.

The service will contribute to Wolverhampton’s Primary Care Framework 2026/27 objective of reducing the number of smokers in the city.

Contract Information

• Buyer: Wolverhampton City Council
• Contract Deadline: 30 November 2026, 12:00pm
• Contract Value: £1,500,000 excluding VAT
• Contract Start: 1 March 2027
• Contract End: 28 February 2030
• Contract Duration: Three years
• Tender Reference: CWC26141
• Procurement Procedure: Open procedure under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023
• Contract Location: Wolverhampton
• Tender Link: Wolverhampton Tenders Portal
• Submission Method: Electronic submission in English
• Tender Validity Period: Six months from the submission deadline
• Renewal: Possible renewal subject to available grant funding

Supplier Requirements

Professional suitability, economic and financial standing, and technical and professional ability requirements are set out in the tender documentation.

Interested providers should review the procurement documents on the Wolverhampton Tenders Portal to confirm the required qualifications, experience and eligibility conditions before submitting a tender.

Evaluation Criteria

The published evaluation criteria are weighted as follows:

• Quality and Innovation: 60%
• Integration, Collaboration and Service Sustainability: 20%
• Improving Access, Reducing Health Inequalities and Facilitating Choice: 10%
• Social Value: 10%
• Value/Commercial Matrix: Pass/fail, with no percentage weighting.

The evaluation places emphasis on service quality, innovation, collaboration and improving access to smoking cessation support. Suppliers must submit a compliant commercial matrix to satisfy the pass/fail requirement.

Commercial Relevance

This opportunity may be relevant to public health providers, smoking cessation specialists, community health organisations and workplace wellbeing services with experience delivering evidence-based stop-smoking programmes. Organisations capable of engaging routine and manual workers through flexible workplace outreach may find this contract particularly relevant.

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