How to win: Drug and Alcohol Treatment and Recovery Contract

About this contract

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.

How to win contracts like this

• ✓Answer against the marking scheme, not the question text — Reading Borough Council scores each response, so map your evidence to the published criteria and weightings.
• ✓At £27,330,984, expect quality and social value to carry a large share of the score — price alone rarely wins services work.
• ✓Show recent, comparable delivery: name similar services contracts you've delivered for public bodies, with measurable outcomes.
• ✓Start early: it closes 5 August 2026 and a strong bid takes iteration.

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