How to win: HAC6052 Integrated Adult Alcohol and Drug Prevention, Treatment and Recovery Service

About this contract

This tender is for the recommission of the adult drug and alcohol treatment and recovery system through one integrated contract with a single accountable provider. The service will: • bring together core treatment, prescribing, psychosocial interventions, outreach, recovery support, IPS and agreed criminal-justice treatment/case-management functions; • provide a coherent resident pathway with strong harm-reduction, rough-sleeping, hospital, mental-health, primary-care, family, 18–25 and digital pathways; • retain formal interfaces with services outside the contract, including Reset Discovery (culturally sensitive recovery support service), P-RESET, Barts/ELFT, CYP provision, Tier 4 and Council-retained criminal-justice functions; • operate within a £7.37m annual financial envelope and commence on 25 October 2027. The Contract Period is initially for a period of three years, although the Authority reserves the right to extend the Contract on the same terms for further periods of 12 months, up to 24 months, making a total possible Contract Period of five years.

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