Camden Adult Substance Misuse, Treatment and Recovery Service

The London Borough of Camden wants to procure an integrated adult substance misuse treatment and support service to support residents of Camden with their drug and alcohol use. The broad objectives of Service will be: • To provide treatment and support; • To implement a treatment and recovery system which hold users at its core and works alongside them to identify and develop both their personal strengths and to participate in designing the most effective delivery model for the service; • To encourage and embed recovery within the service user community and across the borough; • To reduce the harm to, and support recovery and resilience for, those family members who have been affected by someone else's substance use / misuse; and • To maximise the number of service users who achieve sustained recovery. The high-quality service will work with people aged 18 years or older (including those transitioning from young people to adult services) who are resident in Camden. The service will have a dedicated and clearly defined single point of contact which will accept referrals from all sources including self/family referrals and those from statutory, voluntary and community organisations. Camden has a complex service user group with high levels of substance misuse and concurrent mental health need. The service will develop positive, professional relationships with partners across the borough and will ensure that services are developed which attract people misusing substances who are currently not known to, or who are not effectively engaged with treatment services. The service must maintain a website that is clear, accessible, and is a point of contact and provides information about the range of services available. This will include where and how the service can be accessed, contact information and an online referral facility. The website must state clearly that the service and interventions are free for Camden residents or people registered with a Camden GP.

Additional information: TUPE [Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations] Potential suppliers must be aware that TUPE may or may not apply to this service. Further details will be available in the Invitation to Tender. Contract Period The contract period will be for 6 years from an estimated start date of 1 April 2023 with an option to extend by two further periods of up to two-years each. Contract Value The maximum fixed combined budget for Camden and Islington is £54,000,000 over the maximum 10 years of the contract. This is based on a contract value of £5,400,00. There is a maximum fixed budget for this service and the council reserves the right to reject any bids over this amount. It is possible that contract variations will be issued during the life of the contract to allow for the delivery of agreed interventions funded via the Supplementary Substance Misuse Treatment and Recovery Grant, and to transfer the management of pharmacy contracts for the delivery of needle exchange and supervised consumption services. Award criteria The contract will be awarded to the Most Economically Advantageous Tender (MEAT) in accordance with the Public Contracts Regulations. MEAT for this contract is quality 60% and cost 40% (total 100%). Further details are provided in the invitation to tender. Procurement Process This contract is over the threshold at which we are required to publish public procurement notices for new procurements to Contracts Finder. This procurement will be conducted in accordance with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015, under Chapter 3 Section 7 Social and Other Specific Services (known as the "light touch" regime). Under Regulation 76 the council is free to establish a procedure, provided the procedure is sufficient to ensure compliance with the principles of transparency and equal treatment of economic operators (service providers). The procedure the Council has designed is based on the open procedure. All service providers who successfully express an interest will automatically have access to the tender documents. Further details will be available in the tender documents. The council reserves the right to award the contract on the basis of the evaluation of the tenders or to not award the contract if the received tenders do not offer value for money.