Public Health Agency: Funding Portal
Overview
This portal contains information on procurement and grant funding opportunities as well as associated specifications and guidance. If you are interested in procurement and grant funding opportunities with the PHA please keep this portal under regular review and note any timescales set for responses. The PHA welcomes responses from all interested parties, large or small, whether community, voluntary or private as long as they can meet the requirements identified and demonstrate that they can deliver the benefits expected.
The PHA may periodically make calls for grant applications setting out proposals addressing areas or issues where we wish to see a significant improvement in health and well-being status. Such calls for grants will normally be:
- to support initiatives where the outputs/outcomes will be defined as the project progresses
- for a fixed period of time and for a fixed level of funding over the award period
- for a specific project or initiative and are non-renewable.
The PHA operates a rolling procurement programme to commission services or initiatives that will improve health and wellbeing outcomes and address major health inequalities. In this the PHA will seek to:
- ensure awards maximise overall quality and cost effectiveness, with a strong emphasis on service quality and delivering the best outcomes for service users
- reflect any necessary considerations in terms of knowledge around the needs for group, population or community at whom the service or initiative is aimed
- create stable care arrangements by putting in place contracts of adequate duration
- take into account market considerations
- apply lotting as appropriate to tenders (for example scaled to provide co-terminosity with a community, Trust, Council or other relevant boundary). Tenderers will be free to bid for one or more lot(s). Some services may require a regional tender across Northern Ireland.
KEY POINTS TO NOTE:
- Following public advertisement of tenders, organisations will have no less than 6 weeks to complete and return the tender documentation;
- Tenderers should pay close attention to the method of submission of tenders as there may be necessary variations in the process – this will be clearly identified in the Tender Invitation and Instructions for Tendering;
- It is anticipated that some of the tenders will use the e-procurement system and the PHA recommends that all prospective tenderers should consider; registering and familiarising themselves with this system;
- Prospective tenderers should familiarise themselves with the concept of ‘unit pricing’ and give consideration to how they would formulate a unit price for their service which is both competitive and realistic;
- As tenders are released or are scheduled for release, this website shall continue to provide updates for public information;
- PHA staff are unable to discuss the details of tenders with any prospective tenderer once the procurement process has started.
Previous Awards
For recent tenders awarded visit here