Official UK procurement notice
Regional Tobacco Control and Alcohol De-Normalisation Programme
Authority: Durham County Council (Local council)
To provide a specialised programme to support the effective delivery of a multi-component, evidence based, tobacco control and alcohol de-normalisation programme across the whole North East region. Provide a common vision, focus and consistency to comprehensive and sustained activity designed to reduce smoking prevalence and alcohol-related harms. The contract value is estimated for the contract period and extension option.
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionTo provide a specialised programme to support the effective delivery of a multi-component, evidence based, tobacco control and alcohol de-normalisation programme across the whole North East region.
Provide a common vision, focus and consistency to comprehensive and sustained activity designed to reduce smoking prevalence and alcohol-related harms.
The contract value is estimated for the contract period and extension option.
This is to allow for unknown but potential additional funding (for example from central govt) to be used within this contract delivery. Equally if contract budget were reduced service delivery would be re-scoped accordingly.
CPV: Research and development services and related consultancy services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Awarded without competition
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Direct award (no call for competition)
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 31 Jan 2025, 11:35 GMT
- Last source update
- 31 Jan 2025, 11:35 GMT
- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-003246- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
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- Why no open competition
- The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive
- Published justification
PCR2015 "32 (2) (b)
(ii) competition is absent for technical reasons,
(iii) the protection of exclusive rights, including intellectual property rights,
but only, in the case of paragraphs (ii) and (iii), where no reasonable alternative or substitute exists, and the absence of competition is not the result of an artificial narrowing down of the parameters of the procurement.
Market review has not identified another equivalent organisation.
Key personnel within the delivery organisation are the vital component for the delivery of the service
Service delivery is regionally across north east local authority boundaries.
Publisher note: The contract value is estimated for the contract period and extension option. This is to allow for unknown but potential additional funding (for example from central govt) to be used within this contract delivery. Equally if contract budget were reduced service delivery would be re-scoped accordingly.
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fresh and Balance (Hosted by County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust) | — | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Contract 003246-2025-1 · Fresh and Balance (Hosted by County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust)
- Signed
- 31 Jan 2025
- Value
- —
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Lot | Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| To provide a specialised programme to support the effective delivery of a… | — | — | — | £4,000,000 – £4,500,000 |
| Whole notice | — | — | — | £4,000,000 – £4,500,000 |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- The High Court of EnglandReview body
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the noticeOfficial documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.