Young People Alcohol & Drug Support Service

Location

Southampton

Description

The procurement is for a young people's alcohol and drugs treatment and support service in Southampton (for people up to and including the age of 24), which will provide information, advice, harm reduction, care co-ordination, and psycho-social interventions, as well as support for medical interventions. Help will be available to people whether the young person wants to be safer while using alcohol and drugs, reduce their use, stop using, or stay free from use. The services will also help young people with tobacco-related harm, and young people who are vaping and using novel-nicotine products. Harm reduction is a principal aim of the services, with recovery seen as a desirable and achievable outcome. These services will be evidence based and tailored to meet the needs of young people, working actively to reduce health inequalities in the City. The contract will run from 1st July 2026 through to March 31st 2029. Contract value is estimated at: £2,917,096 for initial 33 month term. The Council will have the option to extend the contract by a period of up to 36 months. The maximum contract value is estimated at £6,028,738.92 (ex VAT). The Council is intending to award this contract under the Direct Award Procedure C of The Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023.

Award Detail

Renewal Options

There will be an option to extend the contract for a period of up to 36 months, from 1st April 2029 through to 31st March 2032.

Award Criteria

CPV Codes

• 85000000 - Health and social work services

Indicators

• Options are available.
• Award on basis of price and quality.

Legal Justification

This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) intention to award notice. The awarding of this contract is subject to the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 do not apply to this award. The publication of this notice marks the start of the standstill period. Representations by providers must be made to the relevant authority by the end of Monday 22nd June 2026. This contract has not yet formally been awarded; this notice serves as an intention to award under the PSR.

Other Information

This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) intention to award notice. The awarding of this contract is subject to the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 do not apply to this award. The publication of this notice marks the start of the standstill period. Representations by providers must be made to decision makers by the end of Monday 22nd June 2026, via email at: procurement@southampton.gov.uk . This contract has not yet formally been awarded; this notice serves as an intention to award under the PSR. The award decision makers are officers of Southampton City Council, specifically those working within the Council's Public Health and Commissioning (Community & Wellbeing) sections. No actual or potential conflicts of interest were declared by individuals making the decision to award this contract. The relative importance of the key criteria, each weighted as a percentage out of 100, were as follows: Improving Access, Reducing Health Inequalities and Facilitating Choice 23%; Integration, Collaboration & Service Sustainability 23%; Quality & Innovation 26%; Value 18%; Social Value 10%. The relative importance of each key criteria was determined by consideration of the importance of each in relation to the importance of the others, and in terms of their relative essentiality to the delivery of the specification requirements. The selection of the provider to whom the contract is intended to be awarded was based on assessment of their current and likely future service delivery of the contract and its specification against each of the key criteria: This assessment concluded that the provider had satisfactorily delivered the existing contract in the respect to each of the key criteria and would likely continue to do so in respect of the new contract that the Council intends to award the provider.