Scope
Description
The Department of Health and Social Care is seeking to commission an external partner to deliver the National HIV Prevention Programme for the next 3 financial years 2026/27, 2027/28 and 2028/29.
The programme focusses on populations disproportionately affected by HIV in whom the evidence demonstrates a higher or emerging burden of infection, or specific challenges in accessing prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and care. This includes, but is not limited to, white GBMSM, ethnic minority GBMSM, black African heterosexual women, black African heterosexual men and other ethnic minority heterosexuals.
The Programme aims to:
• Improve awareness, knowledge, understanding and uptake of combination HIV prevention interventions, among populations most affected by HIV;
• Provide targeted HIV testing which reaches communities with unmet need to reduce the undiagnosed population and proportion of late diagnoses and reduce pressures on the NHS, supporting wider government priorities. This should include low HIV prevalence areas;
• Reduce inequalities in access to HIV prevention interventions by exposure, gender, geography and ethnicity
• Reduce levels of HIV related stigma, particularly self-stigma and stigma within different communities
• Enhance collaboration across national, regional and local partners and multi-sector organisations.
Contract Term: 3 years starting 1st April 2026
Contract yearly value: £1,333,334 per year exclusive of VAT; £1,600,000 per year inclusive of VAT
Total Contract Value: £4,000,000 exclusive of VAT; £4,800,000 inclusive of VAT
Total value (estimated)
- £4,000,000 excluding VAT
- £4,800,000 including VAT
Above the relevant threshold
Contract dates (estimated)
- 1 April 2026 to 31 March 2029
- 3 years
Main procurement category
Services
CPV classifications
- 85100000 - Health services
- 85140000 - Miscellaneous health services
- 85323000 - Community health services
- 85322000 - Community action programme
- 79341400 - Advertising campaign services
- 79341000 - Advertising services
Contract locations
- UKC - North East (England)
- UKD - North West (England)
- UKF - East Midlands (England)
- UKG - West Midlands (England)
- UKH - East of England
- UKJ - South East (England)
- UKK - South West (England)
Participation
Legal and financial capacity conditions of participation
Financial
Insurances
Technical ability conditions of participation
Cyber Security
Particular suitability
- Small and medium-sized enterprises (SME)
- Voluntary, community and social enterprises (VCSE)
Submission
Enquiry deadline
29 October 2025, 12:00pm
Submission type
Tenders
Tender submission deadline
10 November 2025, 12:00pm
Submission address and any special instructions
Tender must be submitted via esourcing portal Atamis.
The opportunity will be available on the Health Family Atamis eTendering System. You must be registered to have full access to all documents. Select this link to access and register your organisation to the Atamis system https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome, if you have not already done so. Registration is free of charge. You can search for the project by using the contract reference.
Once you have found the Opportunity, press the 'Register Interest' button to register your interest. This will make the project to appear on 'My proposals and quotes'. From there you can review documents, send clarification messages, submit the response, or decline to respond, if you decide not to participate in the opportunity. For full details on the instruction to tender and terms of participations please refer to the Invitation to Tender document.
Tenders may be submitted electronically
Yes
Languages that may be used for submission
English
Award decision date (estimated)
19 January 2026
Recurring procurement
Publication date of next tender notice (estimated): 3 July 2028
Award criteria
| Name | Description | Type | Weighting |
|---|---|---|---|
| Quality | Quality Criteria contains 8 questions on how the supplier propose to deliver on different elements of the contract. |
Quality | 100.00% |
Other information
Payment terms
Quarterly in arrears
Description of risks to contract performance
61. There is a risk that entering into negotiations could lead to a constrained implementation period. Consequently, some services may not be fully prepared to commence operations on 1 April 2026, which could result in phased service delivery.
Conflicts assessment prepared/revised
Yes
Procedure
Procedure type
Competitive flexible procedure
Special regime
Light touch
Competitive flexible procedure description
The process will follow a competitive flexible procedure with suppliers submitting procurement specific questionnaire and initial tender on a first stage, follow by negotiations and final tender. The Authority reserve the right to award the contract on initial tender.
Contracting authority
Department of Health & Social Care
- Public Procurement Organisation Number: PMQG-9965-CHZR
39 Victoria Street
London
SW1H 0EU
United Kingdom
Contact name: Julia Estruga
Email: julia.estruga@dhsc.gov.uk
Website: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-of-health-and-social-care
Region: UKI32 - Westminster
Organisation type: Public authority - central government