Tender: Healthy Communities Service – Commissioning Local Community Partnerships and Delivery Plans in Croydon

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NHS SWL ICB is seeking a supplier for the Healthy Communities Service in Croydon to commission and support Local Community Partnerships (LCPs) across six localities, develop and maintain one Local Community Delivery Plan per locality, and strengthen inclusive community engagement to reduce health inequalities and improve residents’ health and wellbeing. The service will centre LCPs in developing locality-specific Community Delivery Plans informed by ICB-provided population health data (to be supplied by February 2026), ensure representation from larger charities, BME organisations, grassroots and faith groups and local health representatives, run three events annually in each LCP to connect communities with local services, work collaboratively with geographically relevant PCN or general practice neighbourhood health leads to ensure attendance and alignment with the neighbourhood health model, capture feedback and insight at LCP meetings to inform commissioning and service design, support Co-Chairs (per the Locality Co-Chairperson Code of Conduct) and strengthen inclusion of seldom heard communities through community building and provision of monitoring evidence via Upshot. The contract starts 1 April 2026 for one year, has a total value of £70,875 (inclusive of VAT), is a regulated below-threshold procurement under the Procurement Act 2023, has contract reference C407387, and has a submission deadline of 9 January 2026 at 12pm via Atamis.