All Age Alcohol and Drug Treatment Recovery Service

Location

Barnsley, Doncaster and Rotherham: Within the Borough of Rotherham - The service will be delivered in part from a central base, within Rotherham town centre, but also operate from community venues to improve accessibility. Both the central base and these venues are for the service provider to establish.

Description

The Council requires an all-age Alcohol and Drug Treatment and Recovery service. Specialised pathways will be developed by the service provider to ensure that all cohorts of service users, receive the support they need from a single provider regardless of how they enter the service. It is anticipated that the contract will commence on 23/01/2027 and will run for a period of 26 months and nine (9) days making the expiry date 31/03/2029. The extension rights in this contract will be in any combination of extension(s) up to a maximum of forty-eight (48) months.

Total Quantity or Scope

The service will deliver a range of interventions, including providing a wider prevention and education offer to other professionals, support to families and input to other local delivery agendas. The service will cover advice, treatment and recovery and will be available to all Rotherham residents who require support with substance misuse including problems with prescribed and over the counter medication. The service provider will be required to have recognisable separate alcohol and drug pathways to ensure that each service user cohort receives the best support in line with national guidance and best practice. The service provider will need to deliver a comprehensive community alcohol offer that will work in a primary care setting. The service provider will offer a complete range spanning information and advice, screening, brief interventions, structured psychosocial interventions and pharmacological treatments (including stabilisation, reduction, detoxification, relapse prevention medication and care co-ordination for residential rehabilitation). The service will be delivered in part from a central base, within Rotherham town centre, but also operate from community venues to improve accessibility. Both the central base and these venues are for the service provider to establish. The Council is looking to impose a requirement for sub-contracting, which may involve novation of some existing sub-contracts to the new service provider. The Council is not dictating which nominated sub-contractors shall be used. The new service provider will also be responsible for sub contracting of pharmacies to provide supervised consumption of medications and also for GP practices who deliver care to patients under a shared care agreement with the service provider's lead clinician in the service. It is the intention of the Council to award a contract to the new successful provider Change Grow Live. The provider has been identified following the completion of the evaluation process in line with the Key Criteria stated, following an openly advertised competitive process. The lifetime value of the contract is £27,872,354.25. … This will be determined by the Council as part of its commissioning options prior to the end of this contract. Additional information: In relation to II.2.5, it is important to note that price is not the only award criterion. All criteria were stated in the procurement documents and have been included in this notice at VI.3 for transparency.

Award Detail

Renewal Options

This will be determined by the Council as part of its commissioning options prior to the end of this contract. It is anticipated that the contract will commence on 23/01/2027 and will run for a period of 26 months and nine (9) days making the expiry date 31/03/2029. The extension rights in this contract will be in any combination of extension(s) up to a maximum of forty-eight (48) months.

Award Criteria

CPV Codes

• 85100000 - Health services
• 85111400 - Rehabilitation hospital services
• 85149000 - Pharmacy services
• 85312500 - Rehabilitation services
• 85323000 - Community health services

Indicators

• Options are available.

Other Information

** PREVIEW NOTICE, please check Find a Tender for full details. ** 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 standstill period begins on the day after the publication of this notice. Representations by providers must be made to the relevant authority by 03/08/2026. 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. The award decision as a result of the outcome of the evaluation was taken by the Director of Public Health within the Adult Care, Housing and Public Health Directorate. There were no conflict of interests identified in relation to the individual making the decision. The evaluation was comprised of the Key Criteria as set out in Regulation 5 - Key Criteria of The Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023 and listed below from the published tender documents. The Council identified the most advantageous tender using this criteria. Key Criteria 1 - Quality and Innovation - Criteria Weighting 25% Q1. Service Mobilisation - Question Weighting 40 Q2. Quality Standards including Clinical Governance - Question Weighting 30% Q3. Service User Focus - Question Weighting 30% Q4. Information Governance (GDPR) - Data Handling - Pass/Fail Q5. Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) - Pass/Fail Q6. ICO Registration - Pass/Fail Total Question Weighting 100 Key Criteria 2 - Value - Criteria Weighting 10% Q1. Best Value - Question Weighting 50% Q2. Supply Chain Management - Question Weighting 50% Total Question Weighting 100 Key Criteria 3 - Integration, Collaboration and Service Sustainability - Criteria Weighting 25% Q1. Integration with Stakeholders - Question Weighting 50% Q2. Workforce - Question Weighting 50 Total Question Weighting 100 Key Criteria 4 - Improving Access, Reducing Health Inequalities and Facilitating Choice - Key Criteria Weighting 20% Q1. Service Model - Question Weighting 50% Q2. Public Health Ambitions - Question Weighting 50% Total Question Weighting 100 Key Criteria 5 - Social Value - Key Criteria Weighting 20% Q1. Quantitative Social Value Commitment Question Weighting 30% Q2. Qualitative Social Value Delivery - Question Weighting 70% Q3. Real Living Wage - Pass/Fail Q4. Minimum Standards Charter - Pass/Fail Total Question Weighting 100 Total Key Criteria Weighting 100