Drug and Alcohol Treatment and Recovery Contract
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This is a large award for Health & Social Care — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 32,734 valued Health & Social Care tenders in our corpus.
Reading Borough Council are completing a ITT exercise for the provision of Drug and Alcohol Treatment and Recovery - Reading Borough Council’s Public Health Team requires a provider to deliver a drug and alcohol treatment and recovery service.
The service must reduce harm, improve health outcomes, and support recovery through evidence based, person centred interventions.
It should address not only drug and/or alcohol use but also wider social and environmental factors, using integrated approaches such as family safeguarding.
Suppliers that would like to take part in this process are invited to "Express Interest" upon which they will be given access to the full documentation delivered through this portal.
Documents can be accessed from the "My Tenders" area of this website by selecting the "View Details" button for the project.
Expressions of interest will only be accepted until 05/08/2026.
Any questions relating to this opportunity should be made via the correspondence link on this portal.
What the supplier must deliver
Reading Borough Council’s Public Health Team requires
Reading Borough Council’s Public Health Team requires a provider to deliver a drug and alcohol treatment and recovery service.
The service must reduce harm, improve health
The service must reduce harm, improve health outcomes, and support recovery through evidence based, person centred interventions.
It should address not only drug and/or
It should address not only drug and/or alcohol use but also wider social and environmental factors, using integrated approaches such as family safeguarding.
Any questions relating to this opportunity should
Any questions relating to this opportunity should be made via the correspondence link on this portal.
Derived from the notice text — always confirm against the original documents.
What it takes to bid this
Typical UK bid effort for the £10m+ band — an estimate, not a quote.
Qualify & bid/no-bid ~10% · SQ / PQQ ~20% · Written response ~55% · Review & presentation ~15%
Typical for this category — confirm against the ITT pack
- Hold at bidCQC registration / safeguarding policies
- Plan for deliveryDBS-checked staff & vetting process
- Plan for deliveryTUPE (incumbent staff often transfer)
- Show at bidComparable references / case studies
- Hold at bidFinancial standing (accounts, often ~2× contract value turnover)
- Hold at bidInsurance cover (PL / EL, often PI)
- Show at bidSocial value commitments
Hold at bid = pass/fail conditions of participation. Show at bid = scored in the quality response. Plan for delivery = contract obligations from day one.
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