i-access sub-contract for the delivery of substance misuse community based harm reduction and outreach, alcohol brief advice and information and non-opiate drug pathway

Concepts

• community-based services
• leatherhead
• sabp
• substance misuse service
• delivery of substance misuse community
• access bases
• family safeguarding service bases
• surrey county council bases
• substance misuse workers
• substance misuse interventions

Location

United Kingdom:

Description

i-access is the substance misuse service for Surrey and is part of Surrey and Borders NHS partnership Trust (SABP). It is a county wide service delivering tier 2, 3 and 4 substance misuse interventions. The service is jointly provided by SABP and Public Health, Surrey County Council under a cooperation agreement. The Child and Family Safeguarding Pilot is part of the i-access service and has a number of months of funding remaining with commitment to secure future funding already being explored. It is part of the i-access service. The Pilot has brought substance misuse workers into the child and family teams in order to support parents with substance misuse issues. This procurement was for subcontracted aspects of i-access. The subcontractor will work in collaboration with SABP and Public Health. The subcontractor’s staff will work with SABP staff to deliver the i-access service. They will be based in the SABP i-access bases.

Total Quantity or Scope

This procurement is for subcontracted aspects of i-access. The service provider will work in collaboration with SABP and Public Health. The service provider’s staff will work with SABP staff to deliver the i-access service. They will be based in the SABP i-access bases and in Surrey County council bases for the Child and Family safeguarding pilot. The i-access bases are: • Farnham Road Hospital, Guildford • Abraham Cowley Unit, St Peters Hospital site, Chertsey • Wingfield Centre, Redhill. The Child and Family Safeguarding Service bases are: • Guilford Council – St Francis House • Woking Council – Quadrant Court • Walton Council – Ashley Park House • Redhill Council – Consort House. SABP and Public Health did not require any Service Provider to try and reduce the financial envelope. The financial envelopes are as stated below: • Main Sub-contract - £456,988 per annum (for 3 Years with the option to extend for 2 periods of 12 months each) • Family Safeguarding -£378,000 per annum (maximum funding envelope) for one (1) year on a pay as you go basis based on actual posts/staff recruited in-month and up to 10.00% overhead. Service Providers were advised that bids under the financial envelope stated above, would not gain an advantage on evaluation. Any underspend funding will be re-invested back into the SCC and SABP Cooperative. We understand that when delivering a service there can be unexpected costs. Mitigation for those costs are discussed and agreed in the programme board, on which the successful Service Provider will sit. The financial approach to this contract is one of openness, transparency and collaboration.

Award Detail

Award Criteria

CPV Codes

• 75200000 - Provision of services to the community

Other Information

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