Official UK procurement notice
Young People Alcohol & Drug Support Service
Authority: Southampton City Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe procurement is for a young people's alcohol and drugs treatment and support service in Southampton (for people up to and including the age of 24), which will provide information, advice, harm reduction, care co-ordination, and psycho-social interventions, as well as support for medical interventions.
Help will be available to people whether the young person wants to be safer while using alcohol and drugs, reduce their use, stop using, or stay free from use. The services will also help young people with tobacco-related harm, and young people who are vaping and using novel-nicotine products.
Harm reduction is a principal aim of the services, with recovery seen as a desirable and achievable outcome. These services will be evidence based and tailored to meet the needs of young people, working actively to reduce health inequalities in the City. The contract will run from 1st July 2026 through to March 31st 2029. Contract value is estimated at: £2,917,096 for initial 33 month term. The Council will have the option to extend the contract by a period of up to 36 months.
The maximum contract value is estimated at £6,028,738.92 (ex VAT). The Council is intending to award this contract under the Direct Award Procedure C of The Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023.
CPV: Health and social work services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Awarded
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
- 9 Jun 2026, 20:20 BST
- Last source update
- 24 Sept 2026, 17:13 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-090754- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06b141Find a Tender
- Why no open competition
- The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive
- Published justification
This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) intention to award notice. The awarding of this contract is subject to the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 do not apply to this award. The publication of this notice marks the start of the standstill period. Representations by providers must be made to the relevant authority by the end of Monday 22nd June 2026. This contract has not yet formally been awarded; this notice serves as an intention to award under the PSR.
Publisher note: This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) intention to award notice. The awarding of this contract is subject to the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 do not apply to this award. The publication of this notice marks the start of the standstill period. Representations by providers must be made to decision makers by the end of Monday 22nd June 2026, via email at: [email protected] . This contract has not yet formally been awarded; this notice serves as an intention to award under the PSR. The award decision makers are officers of Southampton City Council, specifically those working within the Council's Public Health and Commissioning (Community & Wellbeing) sections. No actual or potential conflicts of interest were declared by individuals making the decision to award this contract. The relative importance of the key criteria, each weighted as a percentage out of 100, were as follows: Improving Access, Reducing Health Inequalities and Facilitating Choice 23%; Integration, Collaboration & Service Sustainability 23%; Quality & Innovation 26%; Value 18%; Social Value 10%. The relative importance of each key criteria was determined by consideration of the importance of each in relation to the importance of the others, and in terms of their relative essentiality to the delivery of the specification requirements. The selection of the provider to whom the contract is intended to be awarded was based on assessment of their current and likely future service delivery of the contract and its specification against each of the key criteria: This assessment concluded that the provider had satisfactorily delivered the existing contract in the respect to each of the key criteria and would likely continue to do so in respect of the new contract that the Council intends to award the provider.
Notice history
2 releases on Find a TenderPublished amendments (1)
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 do not apply to this award. This contract has now been formally awarded using direct award process C. The date of contract awar…
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| No Limits SouthVCSE | £6,028,739 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Contract 054496-2026-1 · No Limits SouthVCSE
- Signed
- 9 Jun 2026
- Value
- £6,028,739
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1bids | — | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- Independent Patient Choice and Procurement PanelReview body
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- No Limits (South)Awarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.