Official UK procurement notice
Community Drug and Alcohol Treatment & Recovery Service (Adults)
Authority: Kingston upon Thames Borough Council (Local council)·Consortium: 2 public authorities
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames is initiating a procurement process for a Community Drug and Alcohol Treatment and Recovery service for adults. This procurement is being conducted under the Provider Selection Regime (PSR) Competitive Process, with the new contract scheduled to commence on 1st April 2027.
Key details include:
The project is identified by reference DN797749 and titled "Community Drug and Alcohol Treatment and Recovery Service (Adults). The procurement follows Regulation 11 of The Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. The contract term is set for five years, with an option to extend for an additional two years.
CPV: Community action programme · Community health services · Hospital and related services · Medical practice and related services · Miscellaneous health services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedWhat it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Published sub-criteria (2)
- Key Selection Criteria: 80%
- price: 20%
Published award criteria (2)
- Key Selection Criteria: 80
- Price: 20
- Suitability
CQC registration is a requirement.
- Price carries 20 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 2 points. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Kingston upon Thames Borough Council buys Medical practice and related services (CPV 8512), and who usually turns up
Kingston upon Thames Borough Council’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Medical practice and related services (CPV 8512) →
How the contest usually goes
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Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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How often local firms win similar work.
Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.
Here, local means registered in Greater London.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in Greater London.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards were announced within 51 days of the bid deadline.
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How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.
Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.
Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
Direct awards or one recorded bid are common here. Check the route before spending time on a bid.
How many bids did past lots attract?
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How many bids past lots received.
Each colour is a bid-count range. Only competed lots with a published count are included.
Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid54% / 17%
2–338% / 10%
4–60% / 31%
7+8% / 41%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
Each colour shows awards below, close to or above the published estimate, one lot at a time.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Below estimate0% / 13%
Within ±2%100% / 80%
Above estimate0% / 7%
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
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Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list
Lot #1CPV 8512Published estimate£17m
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How many bids this lot may attract.
The forecast uses similar past competitions. The bar shows either that forecast or past bid counts; the line below says which.
Each lot shows its own forecast based on its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative. The bar shows 29 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid17%
2–310%
4–631%
7+41%
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Where the award price may land.
The forecast uses similar awards and the buyer’s estimate. The band covers the middle half of likely prices.
No comparable awards for this lot yet.
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Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
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Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
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Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.
About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
- Two views, kept apart. The authority’s own track record and the wider market for the same kind of work sit side by side and are never mixed. Where the local picture is too thin, a figure widens to a broader market and says which one it used.
- Forecasts are labelled. The price forecast and its range, possible competitors and the earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards: not published facts, not win chances and not price advice. Official notices do not say who is bidding.
- Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Yes
- First published
- 24 Nov 2025, 16:38 GMT
- Last source update
- 7 Jul 2026, 14:15 BST
- Award evaluation window
- 4 Aug 2026 – …
- Authority reference
DN797749- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-063676- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05e7c7Find a Tender
Publisher note: This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) contract notice; the award of this contract is subject to the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Procurement Act 2023 do not apply to this award, except where adopted by the PSR. Bids must be submitted electronically via the ProContract London Tenders Portal https://www.londontenders.org/. Appendices D through J and Appendices 1 through 6 must be completed in accordance with the guidelines provided in each document and the instructions set out in Appendix A. The key selection criteria are weighted as follows: 70% Quality, 10% Social Value, and 20% Price. All bidders will have to pass the Basic selection criteria and conditions of the participation stage to advance to the key selection criteria evaluation stage.
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 4 Aug 2026, 12:00 BST
- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bids opened
- 4 Aug 2026, 12:00 BST
Timeline
24 Nov 2025 → 1 Apr 2027 · 7 dates- Planning notice published332 days ago24 Nov 2025, 16:38 GMT
- Market engagement309 days ago16 Dec 2025, 23:59 GMT
The Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames is seeking to carry out a preliminary market engagement exercise in relation to the provision of community drug and alcohol treatment and recovery service for adults. The preliminary market engagement exercise will include a Soft Market Questionnaire and an online meeting, your organisation can participate in either or both.
The first stage of the exercise is a questionnaire which is available on the London Tenders Portal, please follow the link from this advert. A Memorandum of Information that sets out some useful background information on the current services and our current thoughts on potential future service requirements is also available.
An online information session, following the publication of the market engagement exercise questionnaire, is scheduled for 9th December 2025. This session offers the market an opportunity to hear from the commissioners and seek any necessary clarification before completing the questionnaire.
A maximum of two individuals per organisation are invited to attend the online session.
To register, please send the names and job titles of those attending through the pro-contract portal.
The deadline for registration is midday on Monday 8th December 2025. Following registration, an invitation containing a link to the online session will be sent out.
Suppliers are asked to complete and return the questionnaire via the London Tenders Portal no later than 12 noon Tuesday 16th December 2025.
From those organisations who respond to the Questionnaire, the Council reserves the right to invite selected respondents to participate in a virtual, question and answer session.The primary purpose of this session will be to allow the Council to ask further questions regarding the submitted responses in order to gain a deeper understanding of key elements and nuances within those responses. These sessions will be scheduled week commencing 12th January 2026 and will last no more than half an hour and will be conducted virtually to ensure convenience and accessibility for all invited participants.
Please note:
Where possible please answer all the PME questions in full and our guide in relation to word limit would be no more than 500 words. Do not provide any company brochures or promotional materials as these will not be considered in the Soft Market Testing exercise.
This advert relates to a preliminary market engagement exercise only and is NOT a call for competition. Any contracts for services or supplies relating to this exercise may be subject to separate procurement processes in accordance with the Provider Selection Regime.
- Tender notice expected173 days ago1 May 2026, 23:59 BST
- Latest notice published107 days ago7 Jul 2026, 14:15 BST
- Submission deadline79 days ago4 Aug 2026, 12:00 BST
- Bids opened79 days ago4 Aug 2026, 12:00 BST
- Today22 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 161 days1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
5 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 24 Nov 2025- Preliminary market engagement notice published24 Nov 2025, 16:38 GMTUK2
- Status changed to active7 Jul 2026, 14:15 BST
- Procurement method changed7 Jul 2026, 14:15 BST
- Deadline published: 4 Aug 2026, 12:00 BST7 Jul 2026, 14:15 BST
- Buyer details updated7 Jul 2026, 14:15 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
2 public bodies on the noticeDispute resolution & review bodies
- The Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames KingstonReview body
Official documents & specifications (3)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Economic and financial selection criteria
- Technical selection criteria
Notices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender