Official UK procurement notice
Personalised Pathways to Healthy Weight
Authority: NHS Dorset Integrated Care Board (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionNHS Dorset ICB, along with partners Health Innovation Wessex and Bournemouth University, would like to invite potential partners, providers and innovators to a soft market engagement conversation, with an opportunity to co-design personalised pathways to healthy weight for underserved populations in Dorset.
This work builds on NHS Dorset's commitment to reducing childhood obesity by 2040 (Outcome 2 - NHS Dorset nhsdorset.nhs.uk/voice/jointforwardpl… ↗) and improving access, experience and outcomes for people living with unhealthy weight and obesity, most recently supporting access to medicated and non-medicated pathways for adults in line with the NICE Technology Appraisal NG246 (Weight management - NHS Dorset nhsdorset.nhs.uk/health/medicines/wei… ↗)
Our aim is to further transform weight management services in Dorset, by developing and testing an inclusive, community-based model that addresses the persistent inequalities in access, experience and outcomes for underserved populations and tackles the underlying causes of obesity.
Our objectives are to:
- Co-produce and test innovative models of care that integrate pharmacological, digital, and behavioural approaches for healthy weight.
- Reduce health inequalities by improving access to care for underserved populations, including for people with experience of the care system; people with learning disabilities; people with special educational needs and disabilities; and mental health service users.
- Build capacity within our workforce and communities to support sustained healthy lifestyles and self-management.
- Embed a whole-system, data-driven approach to tackling obesity as a major driver of long-term conditions
- Enable real-world evaluation and learning that can inform national policy and future service commissioning.
The Dorset Model proposes to:
- Recruit participants to the programme by pro-actively case finding through our Dorset Insight and Intelligence Service (DiiS) and through trusted people and places, making every contact count.
- Offer a personalised multi-disciplinary team conversation, which recognises the lived experience of participants, and provides a tailored care plan, with support from a lead professional or coach.
- Deliver personalised pathways to health weight through evidence-informed and co-produced interventions. This might include; in-person groups, remote groups, digital technologies (platforms/wearables), pharmacological and in-service pathways, for individuals, families and carers, and communities.
- Integrate new care pathways and interventions with existing system weight management services, to support both sustainable healthy weight on discharge for individuals and better access to standard care for family, carer, and community members.
- Build knowledge, skills and confidence in our health, social care and VCSE workforce, including paid and unpaid roles.
NHS Dorset anticipates procuring suitably qualified provider(s) to:
(1) A Prime Provider to act as System Integrator for the Programme, who may choose to deliver some or all elements of the new service(s).
(2) Organisation(s) to deliver new services, including digital, behavioural, lifestyle and health improvement, with individuals, families, carers and communities.
(3) Organisation(s) to deliver workforce development.
CPV: Community health services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How NHS Dorset Integrated Care Board buys Social services (CPV 8532), and who usually turns up
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1 bid0% / 31%
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4–660% / 31%
7+20% / 8%
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Lot #1CPV 8532Estimate not published
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1 bid31%
2–331%
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About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
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Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 21 May 2026, 09:20 BST
- Last source update
- 21 May 2026, 09:20 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-046776- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-069e6dFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
21 May 2026 → 1 Sept 2026 · 3 dates- Planning notice published153 days ago21 May 2026, 09:20 BST
- Market engagement130 days ago12 Jun 2026, 23:59 BST
NHS Dorset ICB welcomes engagement from organisations with relevant expertise, including but not limited to:
- Providers with demonstrable expertise in leading and delivering System Integration, specifically to improve access to health and/or social care services.
- Collaborative consortia combining digital, clinical, and community delivery capability.
- Digital health and behaviour change platform providers with NHS experience.
- VCSE and community organisations with experience delivering lifestyle, physical activity, or peer support programmes.
- Providers specialising in inclusive and accessible service design including for people with experience of the care system; people with learning disabilities; people with special educational needs and disabilities; and mental health service users.
- Organisations who have experience of co-designing and delivering workforce development, which builds the knowledge, skills and confidence for healthy weight conversations.
We are particularly interested in hearing from people and organisations who work with underserved populations including for people with experience of the care system; people with learning disabilities; people with special educational needs and disabilities; and mental health service users.
Providers, partners and innovators interested in engaging with this opportunity are invited to:
- Use the link below to register to attend an In-Person networking event: on Wednesday 3rd June, 9.00am - 2pm at Bournemouth Gateway Building, Bournemouth University, St Paul's Lane, Bournemouth, Dorset, England, BH8 8GP
www.eventbrite.com/e/personalised-pathw… ↗
Deadline for registrations 01 June 2026
- Request a 30 minute 1:1 session with NHS Dorset Lead(s): please email [email protected] to be booked on Monday 8th June or Thursday 11th June.
Deadline for bookings 05 June 2026
RIGHT TO CANCEL OR VARY THIS EXPRESSION OF INTEREST
NHS Dorset ICB reserves the right to:
- Cancel all or part of this EOI at any stage and at any time;
- Amend, clarify, add to or withdraw all or part of the EOI at any time
- Not proceed with a contract award. Nothing shall constitute a commitment to ordering unless NHS Dorset ICB undertake a procurement process that results in the award of a contract.
GENERAL
This EOI is being conducted in line with The Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023
Any and all costs associated with the production of such a response to an EOI must be borne by the potential Economic Operator. We will not contribute in any way to meeting production costs of any response.
Information contained within this document is confidential and must not be revealed to any third party without prior written consent from us.
We expect that all responses to this EOI will be provided by potential Economic Operator in good faith to the best of their ability in the light of information available at the time of their response.
GENERAL CONTACT POINT
Name: Joanne Wilson
Position: Strategic Lead for Prevention
Email Address: [email protected]
- Contract starts50 days ago1 Sept 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published21 May 2026, 09:20 BSTUK2
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Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender