Planning

Tameside Live Well Community Navigation Service - Soft Market Testing

  • Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council

UK2: Preliminary market engagement notice - Procurement Act 2023 - view information about notice types

Notice identifier: 2025/S 000-055016

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-0596b1

Published 9 September 2025, 1:34pm



Scope

Description

2.1 Community navigation, also known as social prescribing, is an approach that uses 'link workers' or 'community navigators' to connect people to the wider community and its offer of activities, groups and services, to best meet their practical, social and emotional needs. Tameside Live Well Community Navigation Service is a new community-sited and community-delivered service to support the health and wellbeing of local residents. Funded by Tameside Council, its delivery, recruitment, staff training, and allocation and investment of community funds would be managed by an organisation working in and with a good knowledge of the community. Further information go to www.the-chest.org.uk REF: DN789876

Contract dates (estimated)

  • 2 March 2026 to 28 February 2029
  • 2 years, 11 months, 30 days

Main procurement category

Services

CPV classifications

  • 85000000 - Health and social work services
  • 98000000 - Other community, social and personal services

Contract locations

  • UKD3 - Greater Manchester

Engagement

Engagement deadline

23 September 2025

Engagement process description

For further information go to www.the-chest.org.uk REF: DN789876


Participation

Particular suitability

  • Small and medium-sized enterprises (SME)
  • Voluntary, community and social enterprises (VCSE)

Contracting authority

Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council

  • Public Procurement Organisation Number: PVWB-2493-LWTQ

Tameside One

Ashton under Lyne

OL6 0GS

United Kingdom

Region: UKD35 - Greater Manchester South East

Organisation type: Public authority - sub-central government