Find a TenderPast planning noticePreliminary market engagement notice
Published 6 Mar 2025, 09:30 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

Residential Rehabilitation Unit Development

Official notice

Authority: Essex County Council (Local council)

ServicesAbove thresholdLight touch regimeSME suitableVCSE suitable
Planned pipeline valueValue not publishedpipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected Date not publishedfrom the planned procurement notice
Contract term 7 yrsends 28 Feb 2033 · starts 1 Mar 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

We are undertaking a procurement process with the intention of seeking a co-design and co-delivery partner for a residential rehabilitation service in Essex. Currently across Essex and the wider Eastern Region, there are no residential treatment services to which community services can refer. Individuals requiring these interventions are referred to providers across the country presenting issues in relation to complex needs.

We are seeking a provider to deliver an integrated/eclectic model of delivery, with a combination or shorter term lower intensity programmes and longer term more intensive therapeutic interventions. We are looking to develop a unit with approximately 20-30 beds as well as providing medically assisted detox on site. The service will be a national provision but will allocate a proportion of beds from the facility to the County Council area of Essex (or subsequent Local Authority arrangements post Devolution/LGR).

Following initial market engagement conversations we would like to invite providers to a follow up market engagement discussion and site visit of a potential property for re-development.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please contact [email protected] by 23/07/2025.

CPV: Health and social work services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Planned 7 yrsSMEVCSE
Contract period: 1 Mar 2026 – 28 Feb 2033 (7 yrs)
Delivery: East of EnglandEligibility: SME eligibleVCSE eligible

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Past planning notice
Procurement threshold
Above threshold (FTS publication)
Regulatory regime
Light touch regime
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
6 Mar 2025, 09:30 GMT
Last source update
9 Jul 2025, 09:49 BST
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-038447
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Health and social work services
Delivery area
East of England (UKH3)
Official registry OCID
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How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

6 Mar 2025 → 1 Mar 2026 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published
    6 Mar 2025, 09:30 GMT
  2. Latest notice published
    9 Jul 2025, 09:49 BST
  3. Market engagement
    23 Jul 2025, 23:59 BST

    We are undertaking a procurement process with the intention of seeking a co-design and co-delivery partner for a residential rehabilitation service in Essex. Currently across Essex and the wider Eastern Region, there are no residential treatment services to which community services can refer. Individuals requiring these interventions are referred to providers across the country presenting issues in relation to complex needs.

    We are seeking a provider to deliver an integrated/eclectic model of delivery, with a combination or shorter term lower intensity programmes and longer term more intensive therapeutic interventions. We are looking to develop a unit with approximately 20-30 beds as well as providing medically assisted detox on site. The service will be a national provision but will allocate a proportion of beds from the facility to the County Council area of Essex (or subsequent Local Authority arrangements post Devolution/LGR).

    Following initial market engagement conversations we would like to invite providers to a follow up market engagement discussion and site visit of a potential property for re-development.

    If you are interested in this opportunity, please contact [email protected] by 23/07/2025.

  4. Contract starts242 days ago
    1 Mar 2026

Notice history

2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 6 Mar 2025
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    6 Mar 2025, 09:30 GMT
    UK2
  2. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    9 Jul 2025, 09:49 BST
    UK2

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

Essex County Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PWVM-4844-NRQH County Hall, Market Road, Chelmsford, East of England, CM1 1QHContact email

Official documents & specifications (2)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure