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Community Rehabilitation Service

Essex County Council · compiled

Tender information last checkedLast checked 29 Sept 2026, 19:25.

Opportunity overview

Essex County Council is re-commissioning the Community Rehabilitation Service to deliver a community based intensive rehabilitation programme. This is a notice for intention to award a contract under the PSR competitive process, with approximate lifetime value of £4,500,000. This is an existing service which will be re-commissioned between 1 April 2025 - 31 March 2030. The service contributes to a number of commitments within ECC’s four-year plan, Everyone’s Essex, notably to support healthy lifestyles and level up health. The service has a significant impact on the Council’s commitment to promoting health, care and wellbeing for all the parts of our population who need our support, including vulnerable adults, children and families. Essex County Council has also been greatly influenced by the Think Family initiative and has built on this by ensuring that all its commissioned services offer and/or provide support services to whole families where they are affected by someone else’s drug and/or alcohol misuse. The service provided will form the core part of a county-wide health, adult and young people’s social care, youth offending, police, probation, prison and independent sector recovery-based response to substance misuse in Essex.

Awarded to

Amounts belong to published awards or contracts. Where several suppliers share one value, it is labelled as shared and is not a supplier-specific allocation.

The Forward Trust

Matched by exact name
Contract value
£4.5m
Awarded
Not supplied
Contract signed
24 Jan 2025
Award ID
002623-2025-1
Status
active
Location
London, UKH3, SE11 5DP, United Kingdom

Classification

  • CPV85000000 — Health and social work services

Lots

  • Essex County Council is re-commissioning the Community Rehabilitation Service to deliver a community based intensive rehabilitation programme. This is a notice for intention to award a contract under the PSR competitive process, with approximate lifetime value of £4,499,976. This is an existing service which will be re-commissioned between 1 April 2025 - 31 March 2030. The service contributes to a number of commitments within ECC’s four-year plan, Everyone’s Essex, notably to support healthy lifestyles and level up health. The service has a significant impact on the Council’s commitment to promoting health, care and wellbeing for all the parts of our population who need our support, including vulnerable adults, children and families. Essex County Council has also been greatly influenced by the Think Family initiative and has built on this by ensuring that all its commissioned services offer and/or provide support services to whole families where they are affected by someone else’s drug and/or alcohol misuse. The service provided will form the core part of a county-wide health, adult and young people’s social care, youth offending, police, probation, prison and independent sector recovery-based response to substance misuse in Essex.£6.3m

Published notice details

Additional information from the published procurement release. Fields appear only when supplied by the source; check the original notice and tender documents before acting.

Scope, procedure and submissions

Id
DN748847
Status
complete
Has Recurrence
No
Procurement Method
open
Main Procurement Category
services
Procurement Method Details
Open procedure

Covered By

GPA

Amendments

Entry 1
Id
1

Unstructured Changes

Entry 1

Where

Label
Local time
Section
IV.2.2

New Value

Date
25 Nov 2024, 12:00

Old Value

Date
25 Nov 2024, 15:00
Entry 2

Where

Label
Local time
Section
IV.2.7

New Value

Date
25 Nov 2024, 12:00

Old Value

Date
25 Nov 2024, 15:00
Entry 2
Id
3

Unstructured Changes

Entry 1

Where

Section
VI.3

New Value

Text
This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) confirmation of contract award notice. This contract has been awarded under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 do not apply to this award. This contract has now been formally awarded using the competitive process. Date of contract award: 17 February 2025 Date of service: 1 April 2025 to 31 March 2030 Lifetime value of contract: £4,499,976

Old Value

Text
This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) intention to 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 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 do not apply to this award. The standstill period begins on the day after the publication of this notice. Representations by providers must be made to the authority by 5 February 2025. This contract has not yet formally been awarded; this notice serves as an intention to award a contract under the competitive process of the PSR. Representations can be sent in writing to: rizwan.sher@essex.gov.uk Award decision makers: Cabinet Member for Social Care, Health and Integration in consultation with the Head of Public Health and Wellbeing There were no declared conflicts of interest by any of the decision makers and evaluators during this procurement. The chosen provider was selected due to achieving the highest scores across the key criteria used. The provider has been assessed and passed against the relevant key criteria and basic selection criteria.

Bid Opening

Date
25 Nov 2024, 15:00
Description
The commercial officer will conduct the opening process via the functionality within the Council's e-sourcing portal, ProContract. No postal responses or any submissions which are issued outside the electronic portal will be accepted.

Address

Street Address
Electronically via ProContract

Legal basis

Id
32014L0024
Scheme
CELEX

Expected award period

Starts
25 Nov 2024, 15:00

Tender Period

Ends
25 Nov 2024, 15:00

Communication

Future Notice Date
30 Aug 2024, 00:00

Contract terms

Has Electronic Payment
Yes
Has Electronic Ordering
Yes
Electronic Invoicing Policy
allowed

Classification

Id
85000000
Scheme
CPV
Description
Health and social work services

Submission terms

Languages

en

Submission Method

electronicSubmission

Selection criteria

Criteria

Criterion 1
Type
suitability
Description
Bidders are advised to refer to the Basic Selection Criteria questionnaire within the tender documents for suitability criteria to pursue this activity.

Applies To

supplier
Criterion 2
Type
economic
Description
Bidders are advised to refer to the Basic Selection Criteria questionnaire within the tender documents for economic and financial standing criteria. Bidders are required to fill out the Financial Self-Certification form within the tender documents to meet the basic criteria for economic and financial standing.

Applies To

supplier
Criterion 3
Type
technical
Description
Bidders are advised to refer to the Basic Selection Criteria questionnaire within the tender documents for technical and professional ability criteria, in particular questions specifically related to technical and professional ability and the additional basic selection criteria questions at the end of the document.

Applies To

supplier

Lots and requirements

Entry 1
Id
1
Status
cancelled
Has Options
No
Has Renewal
Yes
Description
Essex County Council is re-commissioning the Community Rehabilitation Service to deliver a community based intensive rehabilitation programme. This is a notice for intention to award a contract under the PSR competitive process, with approximate lifetime value of £4,499,976. This is an existing service which will be re-commissioned between 1 April 2025 - 31 March 2030. The service contributes to a number of commitments within ECC’s four-year plan, Everyone’s Essex, notably to support healthy lifestyles and level up health. The service has a significant impact on the Council’s commitment to promoting health, care and wellbeing for all the parts of our population who need our support, including vulnerable adults, children and families. Essex County Council has also been greatly influenced by the Think Family initiative and has built on this by ensuring that all its commissioned services offer and/or provide support services to whole families where they are affected by someone else’s drug and/or alcohol misuse. The service provided will form the core part of a county-wide health, adult and young people’s social care, youth offending, police, probation, prison and independent sector recovery-based response to substance misuse in Essex.

Value

Amount
6,300,000
Currency
GBP

Renewal

Description
Extension period of up to 2 years.

Award criteria

Criteria

Criterion 1
Name
The contract award criteria are specified in the procurement documents.
Type
quality
Description
95
Criterion 2
Type
price
Description
5

Contract period

Ends
31 Mar 2030, 23:59
Starts
1 Apr 2025, 00:00

Submission terms

Variant Policy
notAllowed

Items and delivery

Item 1
Id
1
Related Lot
1

Delivery locations

Entry 1
Region
UKH3
Entry 2
Region
UKH3
Entry 3
Region
UKH3
Entry 4
Region
UKH3
Entry 5
Region
UKH3

Buyer, suppliers and contacts

Organisation 1
Id
GB-FTS-4622
Name
Essex County Council

Roles

buyer

Address

Region
UKH3
Locality
Chelmsford
Postal Code
CM1 1QH
Country Name
United Kingdom
Street Address
County Hall, Market Road

Details

Classifications

Entry 1
Id
REGIONAL_AUTHORITY
Scheme
TED_CA_TYPE
Description
Regional or local authority
Entry 2
Id
01
Scheme
COFOG
Description
General public services

Identifier

Legal Name
Essex County Council

Contact

Name
Mr Rizwan Sher
Telephone
+44 333
Organisation 2
Id
GB-FTS-3523
Name
Essex County Council

Roles

reviewBody

Address

Locality
Chelmsford
Country Name
United Kingdom

Identifier

Legal Name
Essex County Council
Organisation 3
Id
GB-FTS-113936
Name
The Forward Trust

Roles

supplier

Address

Region
UKH3
Locality
London
Postal Code
SE11 5DP
Country Name
United Kingdom
Street Address
Unit 106, Edinburgh House, 170 Kennington Lane

Details

Scale
large

Identifier

Legal Name
The Forward Trust

Award information

Award 1
Id
002623-2025-1
Status
active

Suppliers

Supplier 1
Id
GB-FTS-113936
Name
The Forward Trust

Related lots

1

Contracts and changes

Entry 1
Id
002623-2025-1
Status
active
Award ID
002623-2025-1
Date Signed
24 Jan 2025, 00:00

Value

Amount
4,499,976
Currency
GBP

Recorded locations

  • Buyer location · Chelmsford · UKH3 · CM1 1QH · United Kingdom
  • Delivery location · UKH3

Notice and amendment history

1 published notice version reviewed by ProcuraAxis.

1 VERSION
  1. ocds-h6vhtk-047a68-2025-04-08T15:50:23+01:00compiled ·