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title: "Lived Experience and Recovery Support – Drugs, Alcohol and Suicide Prevention - PSR Direct Award Process C"
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# Lived Experience and Recovery Support – Drugs, Alcohol and Suicide Prevention - PSR Direct Award Process C

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/lived-experience-and-recovery-support-drugs-alcohol-and-suicide-prevention-psr-direct-awar-ocds-h6vhtk-05098e). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** BLACKPOOL COUNCIL: "Lived Experience and Recovery Support – Drugs, Alcohol and Suicide Prevention - PSR Direct Award Process C". Published status: complete. Published Value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 30 Apr 2025, 12:00 BST. Published submission portal: procontract.due-north.com.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [BLACKPOOL COUNCIL](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/blackpool-council-ons-e06000009)
- **Published Value:** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** 30 April 2025 at 12:00 BST
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Health services
- **Delivery Location:** UKD42
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **Awarded Value:** £745,695 (exc. VAT, 1 contract)
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-05098e`

## 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/lived-experience-and-recovery-support-drugs-alcohol-and-suicide-prevention-psr-direct-awar-ocds-h6vhtk-05098e#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [procontract.due-north.com](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fprocontract.due-north.com)
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/lived-experience-and-recovery-support-drugs-alcohol-and-suicide-prevention-psr-direct-awar-ocds-h6vhtk-05098e#participate

## Description
Provision of Lived Experience and Recovery Support – Drugs, Alcohol and Suicide Prevention  - PSR Direct Award Process C.
This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) confirmation of contract award notice. This
contract has been awarded under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime)
Regulations 2023.
For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 and Procurement Act 2023 do not apply to this award. This contract has now been formally awarded using direct award process C.
The supplier was notified in March 2025.
The contract will run from 1st April 2025 - 31st March 2026 with the option to extend up to 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 years, subject to satisfactory contract review and budget availability.

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

- **Delivery regions:** UKD

- **Description:** Provision of Lived Experience and Recovery Support – Drugs, Alcohol and Suicide Prevention  - PSR Direct Award Process C to Empowerment Charity Lancashire
This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) confirmation of contract award notice. This
contract ...
- **Contract Period:** 31/03/2025 to 31/03/2030

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (1)
- **Award:** 020622-2025-1 (active)

  - Supplier(s): **Empowerment Charity Lancashire**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-147450`
  - Value: £745,695 † (exc. VAT)

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

## Contracts (1)
- **Contract:** 020622-2025-1 (active)
  - Signed Value: £745,695
  - Signed Date: 30/03/2025

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F020622-2025)
- **Last Source Update:** 2025-05-12T15:33:52.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-30T18:05:05.384Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-05098e