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# Buckinghamshire Children and Young People (including vulnerable young adults 18-24) Drug and Alcohol Treatment & Support Service

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/buckinghamshire-children-and-young-people-including-vulnerable-young-adults-18-24-drug-and-ocds-h6vhtk-04e295). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Buckinghamshire Council: "Buckinghamshire Children and Young People (including vulnerable young adults 18-24) Drug and Alcohol Treatment & Support Service". Published status: complete. Published Value: £3,573,500. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 14 Apr 2025, 12:00 BST. Published submission portal: www.supplybucksbusiness.org.uk.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [Buckinghamshire Council](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/buckinghamshire-council-ons-e06000060)
- **Published Value:** £3,573,500 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** 14 April 2025 at 12:00 BST
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Open procedure
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Community health services, Rehabilitation services
- **Delivery Location:** UKJ13
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **Awarded Value:** £1,971,000 (exc. VAT, 1 contract)
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-04e295`

## Before you bid
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- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
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- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/buckinghamshire-children-and-young-people-including-vulnerable-young-adults-18-24-drug-and-ocds-h6vhtk-04e295#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [supplybucksbusiness.org.uk](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.supplybucksbusiness.org.uk)
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/buckinghamshire-children-and-young-people-including-vulnerable-young-adults-18-24-drug-and-ocds-h6vhtk-04e295#participate

## Description
Buckinghamshire Council is seeking to contract with a single provider suitably qualified and experienced to deliver the Children and Young People (including vulnerable young adults 18-24) Drug and Alcohol Treatment and Support Service for Buckinghamshire residents.
The overall aim of the service is to provide a flexible, high-quality community-based specialist drug and alcohol treatment and support service for children and young people under 18, and vulnerable young adults 18-24, who are experiencing, or at risk of experiencing the harmful effects of substance use:
• As a result of their own use of a range of illicit substances and/or alcohol, and/or
• As a result of another’s problem use of substances (including parental, sibling and other family/household member).
Tier 2 – Targeted Support -Prevent and Deter
1. Early Intervention Support Service for Children and Young People who are beginning to use substances regularly (Early at-risk stage) and those who are using regularly (Late at risk stage) from developing problem or harmful use.
2. Young People Drug Diversion Scheme in partnership with Thames Valley Police and Buckinghamshire Council Youth Justice Team.
3. Comprehensive programme of support for children and young people who are experiencing the impact /effects of parental or other familial substance use.
Tier 3 – Structured Care Planned Treatment and Specialist Harm reduction
1. Structured care planned treatment for children and young people, where their substance use has reached the stage of harmful use and has become problematic with impairment in almost all areas of life.
2. Where appropriate, facilitated access to pharmacological/relapse prevention interventions
Tier 4- Inpatient Detoxification and Residential Rehabilitation
1. Where appropriate, facilitated access to T4 interventions.
The current service premises located in High Wycombe, owned by the Council, is available to Bidders who wish to take up this option.
The Council is of the view that TUPE may apply.
The contract start date is 1st December 2025 and the initial term ends on 30th November 2029 with an option to extend for a period of up to 42 months.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 85323000
- **Delivery regions:** UKJ

- **Estimated Value:** £3,573,500
- **Description:** Buckinghamshire Council is seeking to contract with a single provider suitably qualified and
experienced to deliver the Children and Young People (including vulnerable young adults
18-24) Drug and Alcohol Treatment and Support Service for Buckinghams...
- **Contract Period:** 30/09/2025 to 30/09/2029
- **Renewal published:** yes

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (1)
- **Award:** 052968-2025-1-1 (active)

  - Supplier(s): **Change Grow Live Services Ltd**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-COH-06228752`
  - Value: £1,971,000 † (exc. VAT)

> † value taken from the contract record; the award notice published none.

## Contracts (1)
- **Contract:** 052968-2025-1-1 (active)
  - Signed Value: £1,971,000
  - Signed Date: 31/08/2025

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F085586-2025)
- **Last Source Update:** 2025-12-22T17:27:19.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-27T00:23:40.664Z
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