Drug and Alcohol Treatment and Recovery

Tender description

This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) 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 Procurement Act do not apply to this award. In accordance with Regulation 10 of The Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023, Hull City Council has awarded a contract under the Direct Award Option C process as the Council is able to identify the existing provider will likely satisfy the proposed contract to a sufficient standard taking into account the key criteria and applying the basic selection criteria for the provision of Drug and Alcohol Treatment and Recovery. The contract is anticipated to commence 1st November 2026 ending by 31st March 2029. The Authority has estimated the value of the services to be £187,500. Representations by providers must be made to decision makers (please email procurementteam@hullcc.gov.uk) by midnight on 27th October 2026. No representations were made. This contract has now been formally been awarded; this notice serves as an award under the Provider Selection Regime. Lot 1: This service contributes to Hull's drug and alcohol treatment and recovery system, aligned to the UK Government Drug Strategy From Harm to Hope, supporting improved treatment engagement, recovery outcomes, and reductions in drug- and alcohol-related harm. The updated model strengthens whole-system integration, ensuring that structured behaviour change interventions are embedded effectively within treatment, recovery, healthcare, and criminal justice pathways. Specifically to: • Increase successful recovery outcomes and harm reduction • To improve health outcomes for service users Objectives: Hull's treatment & recovery system has the following aims • Take a whole-system approach between health and enforcement partners to engaging people who use drugs into treatment and support their recovery. • Improve the uptake of treatment individuals who are referred from prison to community based treatment including referral directly from prison to inpatient and residential rehabilitation provision. • Increase number of community sentence treatment requirements. • Enhance harm reduction provision. • Increase pharmacological and psychological treatment capacity. • Increase integration and improved care pathways between the criminal justice, and other settings, and drug treatment. • Increase integration and improved care pathways between healthcare settings and drug treatment. • Increase treatment capacity to respond to increased diversionary activity, including through out of court disposals and liaison and diversion. • Enhanced recovery support.