Section one: Contracting authority/entity
one.1) Name and addresses
Essex County Council
Essex County Council
Chelmsford
CM1 1QH
Contact
Rachel Horne
Country
United Kingdom
Region code
UKH36 - Heart of Essex
Justification for not providing organisation identifier
Not on any register
Internet address(es)
Main address
Buyer's address
Section two: Object
two.1) Scope of the procurement
two.1.1) Title
All-Age Recovery Coordination Service (AARCS)
two.1.2) Main CPV code
- 85323000 - Community health services
two.1.3) Type of contract
Services
two.1.4) Short description
Essex County Council ("the Council") are re-commissioning an All Age Recovery Co- ordination Service (AARCS) for people with drug and alcohol misuse issues. AARCS provides a range of evidence-based interventions shaped to meet individual needs, as well as ongoing support for individuals who have exited the service/treatment system but who may experience instances of need for acute recovery support.
Please be advised that this notice is designed to record the Council's intention to award a contract to deliver the AARCS service under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023 ("Provider Selection Regime") via Direct Award Process C as detailed below.
Section six. Complementary information
six.6) Original notice reference
Notice number: 2024/S 000-020717
Section seven. Changes
seven.1) Information to be changed or added
seven.1.2) Text to be corrected in the original notice
Section number
II.1.4
Place of text to be modified
Short description
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Essex County Council ("the Council") are re-commissioning an All Age Recovery Co-ordination Service (AARCS) for people with drug and alcohol misuse issues. AARCS provides a range of evidence-based interventions shaped to meet individual needs, as well as ongoing support for individuals who have exited the service/treatment system but who may experience instances of need for acute recovery support.
Please be advised that this notice is designed to record the Council's intention to award a contract to deliver the AARCS service under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023 ("Provider Selection Regime") via Direct Award Process C as detailed below.
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Please be advised that following the publication of the original intention to award notice to commission an an All Age Recovery Co-ordination Service (AARCS) for people with drug and alcohol misuse issues; this corrigendum is designed to confirm the contractual award as per the Council's stated intentions in the original notice.
Please be advised that this is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) confirmation of contract award notice. This contract has been awarded under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contract Regulations 2015 do not apply to this award. Following the successful conclusion of the standstill period for this service, please note that this notice constitutes confirmation that this contract has now been formally awarded using direct award process C.
In addition, please note that under the dedicated NHS England drafting guidance for PSR regulated notices, the Council is also obliged to confirm the details of the duration and value of this contract. Therefore, please be advised that as stated in the original intention to award notice, this contract commenced on 1st October 2024 under an initial term of five (5) years with an option to extend for a further two (2) years, thereby resulting in a maximum contractual duration of seven (7) years. Therefore, this contract will expire on 30th September 2029 unless the aforementioned option to extend is enacted. For the avoidance of any further doubt, if the latter applies and the Council enacts the option to extend this contract, the contract will expire on 30th September 2031.
In addition, please note that the stated contractual value within the intention to award notice of also remains unchanged. For the avoidance of any further doubt, please note that the aggregate contract value over the maximum seven (7) year term is £13,702,836 based on an annual value of £1,957,548.
seven.2) Other additional information
Please note that the above amendment is also intended to revoke any references to the invocation of the standstill period or the use of an intention to award within any wider sections of the original notice, in recognition that this contract has been awarded.