Substance Misuse Services

Bristol City Council intends to launch a procurement opportunity to procure Substance misuse treatment services with the intention of having new services in place by October 2017.

Currently Substance misuse treatment services include a wide range of treatment and support under the Recovery Orientated Alcohol and Drugs Service (ROADS) banner. This treatment system has been commissioned by Bristol City Council’s Substance Misuse Team (SMT) according to the current National Drug Strategy (2010) and other key guidance from Public Health England (e.g. NICE Guidelines etc.).

At this stage Bristol City Council does not have a detailed commissioning strategy and service specifications to share with potential providers and it reserves the right to breakdown the services in to smaller lots.

Further information about the current Substance misuse service and draft Needs Assessment is available on

https://www.bristol.gov.uk/social-care-health/drug-and-alcohol-misuse-treatment.

At present Bristol City Council is seeking information from Providers on the potential interest and capability of the market to deliver Substance misuse treatment services. Please visit https://www.bristol.gov.uk/socialcare-

health/drug-and-alcohol-misuse-treatment to access the draft Needs Assessment where you can provide feedback by Monday 25th July 2016.

Additional information: Bristol City Council will be utilising an electronic tendering tool to issue this tender and manage the procurement and communicating with tenderers at the tender stage. Accordingly, there will be no hard copy documents issued to tenderers and all communications with the Council including the submission of tender responses will be conducted via ProContract Tender submission.

Candidates should register on the portal at https://procontract.due-north.com/Login (registration and use of the website is free of charge). If your organisation has registered previously, you do not need to re-register.