Community-Based Tenders Invited for Region’s Two Health and Wellbeing Hubs

Two Health and Wellbeing hubs are to be created in Dumfries and Galloway thanks to a share of 5.5 million Euros in cross-border funding.

And now community-based organisations are being invited to tender to deliver services from the two hubs – to be created in Stranraer and Dumfries.

June Watters, Health and Social Care Locality Manager from Dumfries and Galloway Health and Social Care Partnership, said: “This is a fantastic opportunity for the region, where community-based organisations will have the chance to work more closely with local partners in providing complementary health and wellbeing activities”.

“These new hubs will offer support to individuals and groups, helping them to become more active in improving their own health and wellbeing and make better use of existing resources within communities.

It is expected that this approach will help to reach more people and communities, encouraging them to become healthier by accessing support – particularly around the areas of physical activity, nutrition, smoking cessation, alcohol misuse and mental health.

Michele McCoy, Interim Director of Public Health, NHS Dumfries and Galloway, added: “We’d like to encourage any third sector organisation or any combination of local organisations interested in submitting a bid to put themselves forward for consideration and help deliver a major boost to community-based health and wellbeing within the region.”

The Community Health and Wellbeing hubs are coming as a result of CAWT (Co-operation and Working Together) ‑ a cross-border health and social care partnership which secured European Union INTERREG VA grant funding.

The award of 5.5 million Euros is for the provision of eight Health and Wellbeing Hubs over the next four years, with two in South West Scotland, three in Northern Ireland (NI) and three in the Republic of Ireland (ROI).

The CoH Sync Project (Community Health Synchronisation) is seeking tenders from community-based organisations to develop the hubs, with a chance for partnership working and co-production to deliver early interventions and self-management. The hubs will optimise the potential of communities to become more active in improving their own health and wellbeing and will adopt a community development approach to using and complementing existing resources within the communities

The CoH Sync partners are the Health Service Executive, ROI (HSE), the Southern Health and Social Care Trust, the Western Health and Social Care Trust, the Public Health Agency (NI), the Health and Social Care Board and NHS Dumfries and Galloway.

The tender is being managed by HBS Procurement, which is a division of the HSE, and the tender notice is now available at www.etenders.gov.ie

To find on website: click ‘Notice Search’, Write Keyword– ‘Hubs’. This will give you a summary of the project. To express an interest – ‘Register on line’ to open Documents.

Communication Protocol

The sole point of contact for any queries for the tendering process is :

All communication should come through the office named above to ensure consistency and equal treatment. Tenderer(s) should not contact any NHS D&G personnel about their submission between the issuance of this press release and the date of award unless previously authorised to do so by the person named in the table above.

Any necessary meetings or discussions will be arranged and/or facilitated by the above named person, or his nominee. In all phases of this procurement, all communication among Tenderer(s) and the HSE which relate to this Tender must be in writing.

All Tenderer(s) will be advised by email of any significant issues raised by any Tenderer. Copies of all significant questions received and answers given will be forwarded to all participants via email through the etenders website.  It is the responsibility of all Tenderer(s) to check their e-mails on a daily basis. 

Questions/queries raised after the close of business on 14^th December at 3pm will not be entertained.

Failure to comply with any of the above procedures may disqualify the tenderer.

Closing date for submission is 21^st December