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title: "Specialist Stop Smoking Service"
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# Specialist Stop Smoking Service

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/specialist-stop-smoking-service-ocds-h6vhtk-0500ae). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Stockton on Tees Borough Council: "Specialist Stop Smoking Service". Published status: complete. Published Value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [Stockton on Tees Borough Council](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/stockton-on-tees-borough-council-ons-e06000004)
- **Published Value:** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Rehabilitation services
- **Delivery Location:** UKC11
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **Awarded Value:** £564,849 (exc. VAT, 1 contract)
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-0500ae`

## 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/specialist-stop-smoking-service-ocds-h6vhtk-0500ae#tl-md)

## Description
The Authority must exercise a number of health service functions set out in section 2B of the NHS Act 2006 and the Local Authorities (Public Health Functions and Entry to Premises by Local Healthwatch Representatives) Regulations. In order to satisfy these obligations, the Authority wishes to secure the provision of the Specialist Stop Smoking Services.
Specialist Stop Smoking Services contribute to the ambitions of the Creating a smokefree generation and tackling youth vaping. This includes the Tobacco and Vapes Bill which is currently going through parliament (2024) 
Under the Provider Selection Regime, where an existing Provider can be directly awarded a contract (under DA process C) where the following criteria are satisfied:
•	The existing provider is satisfying the existing contract to a sufficient standard. 
•	The existing provider will likely satisfy the proposed contract to a sufficient standard taking into account the key criteria and applying the basic selection criteria.
In the opinion of the service lead officer and the Contract Management Officer the existing provider satisfies these criteria.

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

- **Delivery regions:** UKC

- **Description:** Provider Selections Regime - Direct Award Process C - Specialist Stop Smoking Service (SSSS) including:
1)	Delivery of a SSSS to the population of the Borough: to provide evidence-based smoking cessation service with expert support, including treatme...

- **Options published:** yes

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (1)
- **Award:** 014321-2025-1 (active)

  - Supplier(s): **North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-184363`
  - Value: £564,849 † (exc. VAT)

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

## Contracts (1)
- **Contract:** 014321-2025-1 (active)
  - Signed Value: £564,849
  - Signed Date: 08/04/2025

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F016913-2025)
- **Last Source Update:** 2025-04-25T08:05:37.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-28T05:53:31.162Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-0500ae