Decision details

Health and Wellbeing - Harm Reduction, Treatment and Prevention Procurement Strategy

Decision Maker: Cabinet

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: Yes

Is subject to call in?: Yes

Purpose:

The council plans to recommission its substance misuse services for adults and integrated substance misuse and sexual health wellbeing services for young people. The current contracts give provision for core drug and alcohol services, peer support and young people’s health and wellbeing services covering substance misuse and psychosexual support.

This report seeks approval of the Procurement Strategy which sets out the intention to tender the delivery of a more efficient and high-quality substance misuse services through:

• an adults’ substance misuse service
• an integrated young peoples’ sexual health and substance misuse service

Decision:

To approve the Procurement Strategy for the re-procurement of two contracts commencing October 2022 as follows:

·           Lot 1 - an adults integrated substance misuse service, with a contract value up to £2,925,000 per annum. The total value of the contract is £20,475,000 over 7 years

·           Lot 2 - a young peoples integrated substance misuse and sexual health service, with a contract value up to £200,000 per annum. The total value of the contract is £1,400,000 over 7 years.

·           The contracts are reviewed by the Cabinet Member for Health and Adult Social Care after two years.

 

Report author: Julia Woodman

Publication date: 07/12/2021

Date of decision: 06/12/2021

Decided at meeting: 06/12/2021 - Cabinet

Effective from: 10/12/2021

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