Pipeline

Community Alcohol and Drugs Services

  • Cornwall Council

UK1: Pipeline notice - Procurement Act 2023 - view information about notice types

Notice identifier: 2025/S 000-084359

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-05f914

Published 18 December 2025, 12:56pm



Scope

Reference

DN799374

Description

This notice is published using the Procurement Act 2023 template for transparency purposes. The procurement will be conducted under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023 ("PSR") using the Competitive Process route (Regulation 11).

Community Alcohol and Drug Services encompasses specialist prevention, treatment and recovery services for adults and young people which will be split in to 2 Lots.

Lot 1 Community Drug and Alcohol Services (Adults)

Full range of evidence based Open Access Prevention and Structured Community Treatment services for adults to reduce harm, prevent death and promote recovery, to include:

Open Access for people who use drugs, affected others and support for other professionals- online chat, telephone helpline, outreach ,drop in, needle exchange and harm reduction services, aftercare and recovery support

Structured community treatment to include pharmacotherapy and structured psychosocial interventions in primary and secondary care, criminal justice interventions

Estimated numbers 4,000 p.a.

Lot 2 Community Drug and Alcohol Services (Young People)

Full range of evidence based Open Access Prevention and Structured Community Treatment services to reduce harm, prevent death and promote recovery for young people up to the age of 18 and in transition, to include:

Schools programme- including policy support to schools, reducing drug related schools exclusions and detached provision to schools who require

Open Access for people who use drugs, affected others and support for other professionals- online chat, telephone helpline, outreach ,drop in, needle exchange and harm reduction services

Structured community treatment to include pharmacotherapy and structured psychosocial interventions in primary and secondary care (estimated numbers 160)

Support to Youth Justice Service

Note: Estimated values do not reflect any uplifts or predictions for annual adjustments based on any indexation adjustment clauses and these services are considered to be exempt from VAT.

Total value (estimated)

  • £87,066,000 excluding VAT
  • £87,066,000 including VAT

Contract dates (estimated)

  • 1 April 2027 to 31 March 2030
  • Possible extension to 31 March 2036
  • 9 years

Main category

Services

CPV classifications

  • 85100000 - Health services

Contract locations

  • UKK30 - Cornwall and Isles of Scilly

Participation

Particular suitability

  • Small and medium-sized enterprises (SME)
  • Voluntary, community and social enterprises (VCSE)

Submission

Publication date of tender notice (estimated)

29 April 2026


Procedure

Procedure type

Open procedure

Above or below total value threshold

Above or equal to threshold


Contracting authority

Cornwall Council

  • Public Procurement Organisation Number: PYRH-9827-DWLP

County Hall

Truro

TR1 3AY

United Kingdom

Contact name: Mr James Howarth

Email: james.howarth@cornwall.gov.uk

Website: http://www.cornwall.gov.uk

Region: UKK30 - Cornwall and Isles of Scilly

Organisation type: Public authority - sub-central government