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title: "Drug and Alcohol Community Service"
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# Drug and Alcohol Community Service

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/drug-and-alcohol-community-service-ocds-h6vhtk-045301). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Bath & North East Somerset Council: "Drug and Alcohol Community Service". Published status: complete. Published Value: £28,000,000. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 27 Aug 2024, 12:00 BST. Published submission portal: procontract.due-north.com.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [Bath & North East Somerset Council](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/bath-north-east-somerset-council-ons-e06000022)
- **Published Value:** £28,000,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** 27 August 2024 at 12:00 BST
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Restricted procedure
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Health and social work services
- **Delivery Location:** UKK12
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **Official Documents:** 4 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/drug-and-alcohol-community-service-ocds-h6vhtk-045301#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-045301`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **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/drug-and-alcohol-community-service-ocds-h6vhtk-045301#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [procontract.due-north.com](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fprocontract.due-north.com%2FAdvert%2FIndex%3FadvertId%3De8b9b262-214f-ef11-812d-005056b64545)
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/drug-and-alcohol-community-service-ocds-h6vhtk-045301#participate

## Description
The Authority wishes to establish a Contract for the provision of Drug and Alcohol Services.
The key requirements of the service are:
A community-based adult substance use service responsive to identified local needs (to include, but not be limited to and according to emerging needs: alcohol, opiate, non-opiates,psychoactive substances, prescription and over the counter drugs as well as image andperformance enhancing drugs) which will provide both medical and psychosocialinterventions for harm reduction and recovery. (T2, T3 and providing access to T4 provisionfor adults and young people)
Manage Shared Care provision in GP practices.
Ensure specific provision for complex needs (including co-occurring mental health and substance use diagnosis).
A holistic young peoples substance use service (for people up to the age of 25 years) with clear and seamless transitional arrangements.
Support for families and carers of people using drugs and alcohol.
Access to residential detoxification and rehabilitation and management of the placement budget.
An effective and responsive outreach and harm reduction offer for all, whether in treatment or not, including direct delivery and pharmacy provision, naloxone programme, synthetic opioids preparedness and drug related death prevention.
Manage pharmacy contract. Community pharmacists provide a service to dispense, support and monitor the consumption of opiate substitute treatment medication. And the pharmacy needle exchange programme, this service provides access to sterile needles and syringes, and a sharps container for the return of used equipment to promote safe injecting practice and reduce transmission of infections.
A free programme of Drug and alcohol training and support for schools
A free programme of training to support the wider workforce increase early identification and referrals into treatment, reduce stigmatisation and better understand the needs of this vulnerable group of people.
Provide a blood borne virus programme ensuring hepatitis B vaccinations and hepatitis B and C screening are available to all entering or engaged with treatment services regardless of the presenting substance.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** complete

- **Delivery regions:** UKK

- **Description:** This notice is an intention to award a contract under the competitive process
The approximate lifetime value of the contract. is £17,500,000
This a retender for an existing service albeit with a revised specification
The intention is to award the con...

- **Renewal published:** yes

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (1)
- **Award:** 036741-2024-DN719552-1 (active)

  - Supplier(s): **Turning Point (Services) Ltd**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-COH-02166697`

## Contracts (1)
- **Contract:** 036741-2024-DN719552-1 (active)

  - Signed Date: 13/11/2024

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F005797-2025)
- **Last Source Update:** 2025-02-19T12:04:51.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-26T13:53:30.966Z
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