💉 Comprehensive Range of Community-based Blood Borne Virus (BBV) Services

WA Health awards $40.5M contract to WA AIDS Council for community-based BBV/STI services via direct negotiation, addressing public health concerns.

Consistent with the intent of the Delivering Community Services in Partnership (DCSP) Policy, July 2025, the Department of Health (the State Party, also referred to as the Department), the Department invites your organisation to submit an Offer to provide the Comprehensive Range of Community-based Blood Borne Virus (BBV) Services (the Service) through a Direct Negotiation Request process. Despite being preventable and treatable, BBVs and sexually transmissible infections (STIs) remain significant public health concerns in Western Australia (WA). BBVs are transmitted by blood or body fluids that contain blood and include viruses such as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis B and hepatitis C. STIs are viral, bacterial or parasitic infections passed through contact and bodily fluids during sexual activity and include chlamydia, gonorrhoea, and syphilis. Health promotion strategies and biomedical advances, such as pre-exposure prophylaxis, vaccination, and antiviral treatments, have made it possible to moderate the impact of BBVs and STIs. In WA, during 2025 there were 79 notifications of HIV, 537 of hepatitis B, and 888 of hepatitis C. In the same year, there were 12,220 notifications of chlamydia, 5,235 of gonorrhoea and 773 of infectious syphilis. People living with HIV require life-long care and co-ordinated support and the collective count of BBV and STI notifications demonstrates these conditions continue to impact the WA community. The impacts of living with BBVs and/or STIs are broad ranging but they commonly affect an individual’s physical, psychosocial and community wellbeing. In 1983 the World Health Organisation’s Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion (the Charter) was released as a guiding approach for effective, evidence-based health promotion interventions. Offering evidence-based health promotion strategies, the State Party draws on the Charter to underpin its WA Sexual Health and BBV Strategy 2024-2030 (the Strategy). Under the Strategy, the State Party seeks to end the transmission of BBVs and STIs in the State and adopts five Charter endorsed actions to enable this goal: develop personal skills; create supportive environments; strengthen community action; re-orient health services; and build healthy public policy. The Service will form an integrated service that delivers a suite of specialist services and supports to people impacted by BBVs and STIs.

The Department of Health (Royal Street) awarded a $40,549,890 (Fixed Price) contract via Direct Sourcing to WA AIDS Council Inc. (Western Australian AIDS Council (Inc)). There was only one submission.