WSROC / Healthy Communities Initiative - Q-2012-009.

The Healthy Communities program  is a Federal Government initiative to improve health and reduce the risk of chronic disease.

 As part of this program Council wishes to engage an organisation or individuals to deliver two healthy lifestyle projects: BEAT IT which is a program to prevent diabetes and HEAL which is a health education, nutrition and exercise program aiming at people with or at risk of chronic disease. 

The individual projects can be tendered for separately or as a package.

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It is expected that the successful party/parties will have an understanding of preventative health practices and be able to deliver the program through qualified health professionals  who have or will be prepared to gain additional skills  available through national training programs

The Healthy Communities Intiative  is to be delivered to adults who are mostly not in the paid workforce. Key target groups are identified in section 5 the Project Brief.  However as Auburn is a multicultural community an understanding and experience of working with diverse communities and effective engagement practices with these communities is essential.

The programs will be monitored by the program  facilitators and information collected to allow for program evaluation.

Information about of the scope of the project, its duration, and expected outcomes is detailed in section 5 of this document

NSW Regions: Sydney

Open Tenders - An invitation to tender by public advertisement with no restriction placed on who may tender. Tenderers will normally be required to demonstrate in their tender that they have the necessary skills, resources, experience, financial capacity, and in some cases licences, accreditations, etc., to fulfil the tender requirements.

Below is Council?s anticipated Project Timeline:

Date	Description
24th May 2012	Request for Quotation forwarded to selected firms for response
13th June 2012	Response to Request for Quotation closes 12.00pm
15th June , 2012	Evaluate responses to Request for Quotations
22nd June , 2012	Council to advise successful and unsuccessful respondents