Children and Young People's Substance Misuse Treatment Service

A Contract Award Notice
by BIRMINGHAM CITY COUNCIL

Source
Find a Tender
Type
Contract (Services)
Duration
not specified
Value
£7M
Sector
HEALTH
Published
21 Mar 2025
Delivery
not specified
Deadline
n/a

Concepts

Location

West Midlands England:

Geochart for 1 buyers and 1 suppliers
Birmingham City Council
Aquarius Action Projects
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1 buyer

1 supplier

Description

The vision for the new children and young people's drug and alcohol service is to have an integrated service model with wider children and young people services. It will provide a range of young person-centred, sensitive, and trauma-informed services to CYP who may be at risk of substance misuse or currently experiencing substance related harm. The service will be structured to support Children and Young People with three tiers of provision: Universal, Targeted and Specialist. The Service will deliver a Public Health approach to address poor health outcomes of substance misuse and promotes health transitions into adulthood.

Total Quantity or Scope

This notice is an intention to award a contract under the most suitable provider process. The core contract value is £7,483,546. Grant funding of approximately 10% of the contract value (£7,483,546) has been confirmed for Year 1 and will be made available to the Provider for service delivery. Grant funding for additional years is subject to availability of National Grant. The Most Suitable Provider that has been identified through the process is the existing Provider. The intention is to award the contract to the Provider to deliver the new service which is not changing considerably from the previous. The proposed contract start date is 3rd April 2025 for a 5 year period with an option to extend for a further 2 years subject to satisfactory performance and funding availability.

Award Detail

1 Aquarius Action Projects (Birmingham)
  • Reference: 010643-2025-1
  • Value: £7,483,546

Renewal Options

Option to extend for a further 2 years subject to satisfactory performance and funding availability.

Award Criteria

most suitable provider process with regard to the key criteria 100%
price 0%

CPV Codes

  • 85100000 - Health services
  • 85140000 - Miscellaneous health services
  • 85312500 - Rehabilitation services

Indicators

  • Options are available.

Other Information

** PREVIEW NOTICE, please check Find a Tender for full details. ** 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 3rd April 2025. This contract has not yet formally been awarded; this notice serves as an intention to award under the PSR. Representations should be sent etendering@birmingham.gov.uk Details of the award decision-makers: Director of Public Health in conjunction with Director of Commercial & Procurement (or their delegate) Executive Director of Finance and Section 151 Officer (or their delegate) and the Director of Legal & Monitoring Officer (or their delegate) There is no conflict of interest identified. The relative importance key criteria used to make a decision was 80% Quality (Key Criteria excluding SV), 20% Social Value (SV). Aquarius Action Projects ranked first with reference to assessment of the basic and key criteria set out in Regulation 10 of the 'Most Suitable Provider Process'.

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