Substance Misuse All-Age Recovery Coordination Service (AARCS)

Concepts

• chelmsford
• community health
• health services
• drug misusing offenders
• sustained recovery
• aarcs
• coordination
• recovery
• misuse
• misusing

Location

Chelmsford

Description

Essex County Council (ECC) commissioned an All Age Recovery Co- ordination Service (AARCS) for people with substance misuse issues in 2016. AARCS provides the backbone of the substance misuse treatment system in Essex. This is a holistic recovery service which moves people out of substance misusing by ensuring that their physical, psychological, social and employment needs are met with a planned programme of sequenced activities. This service was contracted under an initial term of five years with an option to extend for a further two years, therefore, resulting in a maximum duration of seven years.

Ammendments to Previous Notice

Award Detail

CPV Codes

• 85323000 - Community health services
• 85100000 - Health services

Indicators

• Contract modified due to additional needs.

Legal Justification

The proposed extension of six (6) months will avoid the potential risk of a break in service delivery of the service which would be detrimental to the needs of vulnerable adults experiencing alcohol and drug dependence, as well as other multiple and complex needs, who are unable to navigate complex service pathways without support; this would result in their needs escalating, and creating undue pressure on costly public health services who do not have the capacity or expertise/experience to provide support.

Other Information

This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) contract modification notice, 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 modified. In line with the specified NHS England guidance regarding supporting evidence for PSR transparency notices, please be advised that the Council's decision maker who approved this contract extension was the Director of Wellbeing Public Health and Communities with guidance from the Council's Head of Wellbeing and Public Health. Please note that the specified reference number for the contract award notice is a dummy reference in line with the NHS England guidance for services whereby no reference number is available.