Purpose

This report seeks approval to
award the Local Stop Smoking Services and Support Grant –
Specialist Provision contract to the provider with the highest
weighted score in the tender evaluation process: The
‘preferred provider’.
 
The new specialist smoking
cessation service for underserved populations will initially focus
on Severe Mental Illness (SMI), Substance Misuse and Homeless
populations.  The service will retain
the option to expand its remit to include additional underserved
populations over the course of the contract, subject to compliance
with the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime)
Regulations 2023 (PSR)
.
 

Content

To agree the award of the Local
Stop Smoking Services and Support Grant – Specialist
Provision to the preferred provider, as laid out in Part B, for a
period of four years and three-months at a total fixed contract
cost set out in Part B.