Lived Experience Recovery Organisation (LERO)

Location

Peterborough

Description

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. Peterborough City Council has an ambition to establish a fully independent Lived Experience Recovery Organisation (LERO) in Peterborough to support people recovering from drug and alcohol use. A lived experience recovery organisation (LERO) is an organisation led by people with lived experience of drug and alcohol recovery. LEROs deliver a wide range of harm reduction interventions, peer support and recovery support services and they can help people to access and engage in treatment and other support services. The contract term is 1st August 2026 - 31st July 2029 with one option to extend by a further 12 months, to be taken at the sole discretion of the Authority.

Total Quantity or Scope

The lifetime value of the contract is £421,949.37 This is a new service. The award is being made to a new provider.

Award Detail

Renewal Options

The term may be extended once, by a period of 12 months, at the sole discretion of the Authority.

Award Criteria

CPV Codes

• 85312500 - Rehabilitation services

Indicators

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

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 the relevant authority by midnight on 1st July 2026. This contract has not yet formally been awarded; this notice serves as an intention to award a contract under the competitive process of the PSR. Written representations may be sent to christian.menendez@peterborough.gov.uk Award decision makers are as follows: Joe Keegan - Lead Officer Raj Lakshman - Service Director Stephen Taylor - Director No conflicts of interest were identified during this process. The key criteria were weighted as follows: The key criteria used to assess tenders were weighted as follows: Quality & Innovation - 25% Value - 30% Integration, Collaboration and Service Sustainability - 20% Improving Access, Reducing Health Inequalities and Facilitating Choice - 20% Social Value - 5% The rationale for the weightings is as follows: Quality & Innovation. As we are commissioning a service that will evolve according to co-production we were not looking for the answer or description of what the LERO would be like from the start. Quality is important in terms of the approach but it is equally as important as some of the other criteria. The interventions are to be developed as the programme of work progresses and quality of the outcomes will need to be considered as well as innovation in the approach but on a more an equal footing to value, integration and collaboration and access. Value. This is an important consideration due to funding constraints and therefore we need to pay particular attention to how funds are used to achieve the outcomes we desire. We need the provider to demonstrate value for money as they set up the LERO and focus effort on obtaining results within the given resources. This is also a developmental model and money could be wasted on too much experimentation in order to develop a LERO that works rather than considered and co-produced methods. The emphasis on value will give more credence to developing the service with and evidence base and partnership/co-production approach, ensuring we obtain the results that people with lived experience need within the given budget. Integration, Collaboration and Service Sustainability. This criteria is also given almost equal weight to the others as it reflects the importance we are putting on ensuring that the development of the LERO is done via collaboration and integration with stakeholders and people with lived experience and that there are strong connections to the main drug and alcohol treatment provider. The LERO, although independent to the main drug and alcohol treatment provider, will need to work with them to enhance and continue the offer in terms of recovery and support for life skills. Ideally, we would like the LERO to be established as a sustainable model in the long term as this would be the most successful outcome and demonstrate that it is fully engaging with people with lived experience and providing opportunities to develop an enterprise or similar driven by lived experience for the benefit of people in recovery. Improving Access, Reducing Health Inequalities and Facilitating Choice . This is an almost equally important criteria, although lower than value, but reflects the importance of achieving equality in terms of access and inclusivity. We want to create and all-embracing offer to fully support some of our most vulnerable members of society, enabling them to develop skills and participate in activities with like minded and trusted individuals to fully support their journey in recovery. It is important that the programme effectively considers how it offers choice and is accessible to all in order to achieve these goals. Social Value. Social value is our least weighted criteria. The LERO will inevitably, by it's nature produce social value as it is embedded in communities for those who need it but there is less emphasis on additional social value in a wider context. The other criteria have more importance in terms of demonstrating their impact whereas social value will be an inevitable and measurable outcome of the LERO in terms of developing life skills for the benefit of communities and linking with housing and employment for individuals. Following compliance checks of tenders received, one bid was identified as having been compliant and taken through to evaluation against the key criteria, where it was considered to have satisfied the award criteria. As only one tender was received, the provider scored highest against all key criteria, with the overall score being deemed sufficient to progress with the award recommendation. The recommendation to award was put forward and formal governance approved following the competitive process.