Published date: 23 May 2017

Last edited date: 23 May 2017

This notice was replaced on 7 August 2017

This notice does not contain the most up-to-date information about this procurement. The most recent notice is:

Awarded contract (published 7 August 2017)

Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.


Contract summary

Industry

  • Community health services - 85323000

Location of contract

East Midlands

Value of contract

£270,000 to £450,000

Procurement reference

RCC SMCTS2017

Published date

23 May 2017

Closing date

16 June 2017

Contract start date

1 October 2017

Contract end date

30 September 2022

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

Rutland County Council intends to provide a substance misuse and treatment service to commence on 1st October 2017.

The Community Substance Misuse and Treatment Service shall aim to reduce the substance related harm to individuals, families and communities and support the building of individual recovery.

The Service will be a single integrated specialist substance misuse service, providing specialist drug and alcohol services for adults and young people, including specialist services for adults and young people within the criminal justice system.

The service will include: alcohol and drug structured treatment and interventions for both adults and young people; required criminal justice provision; advice for other professionals; recovery support; and provision of Needle Exchange and pharmacy-based supervised consumption. These last elements may be subcontracted by the provider. In-patient treatment provision remains a separate contract.

The proposed contract length is 3 years, starting October 2017 with the option to extend annually for up to a further 2 years. This will be subject to satisfactory performance, and enable need and capacity to be reviewed. The maximum contract period will be 5 years, ending September 2022.

The contract value will be set against a maximum value of £90,000 per year, £450,000 over the lifetime of the contract.

Whilst tender documents may be downloaded from this Notice, interested parties must also ensure they register their interest in this tender by email to the procurement email address in the tender documents and marked FAO the named contact person:

Contracts@rutland.gov.uk marked 'Substance Misuse and Community Treatment Service' for the attention of Toni Bawden.

This to ensure interested parties receive updates, TUPE information, questions and responses, etcetera.

Note: the deadline for bidders questions is 2nd June (and the deadline for responses by the Council, 8th June).

Questions and responses of relevance all to the tender process and the services in question will be circulated to all bidders.

More information

Attachments

About the buyer

Address

Rutland County Council
Catmose
Oakham
LE15 6HP
England

Email

Contracts@rutland.gov.uk