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Children and Young People's Substance Misuse Treatment Service

Birmingham City Council · compiled

Tender information last checkedLast checked 29 Sept 2026, 23:08.

Opportunity overview

The vision for the new children and young people's drug and alcohol service is to have an integrated service model with wider children and young people services. It will provide a range of young person-centred, sensitive, and trauma-informed services to CYP who may be at risk of substance misuse or currently experiencing substance related harm. The service will be structured to support Children and Young People with three tiers of provision: Universal, Targeted and Specialist. The Service will deliver a Public Health approach to address poor health outcomes of substance misuse and promotes health transitions into adulthood.

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.

Aquarius Action Projects

Matched by number
Contract value
£7.5m
Awarded
Not supplied
Contract signed
21 Mar 2025
Award ID
010643-2025-1
Status
active
Identifier
GB-COH 2427100
Location
Birmingham, UKG, B5 7SL, United Kingdom

Classification

  • CPV85100000 — Health services
  • CPV85140000 — Miscellaneous health services
  • CPV85312500 — Rehabilitation services

Lots

  • The vision for the new children and young people's drug and alcohol service is to have an integrated service model with wider children and young people services. It will provide a range of young person-centred, sensitive, and trauma-informed services to CYP who may be at risk of substance misuse or currently experiencing substance related harm. The service will be structured to support Children and Young People with three tiers of provision: Universal, Targeted and Specialist. The Service will deliver a Public Health approach to address poor health outcomes of substance misuse and promotes health transitions into adulthood. This notice is an intention to award a contract under the most suitable provider process. The core contract value is £7,483,546. Grant funding of approximately 10% of the contract value (£7,483,546) has been confirmed for Year 1 and will be made available to the Provider for service delivery. Grant funding for additional years is subject to availability of National Grant. The Most Suitable Provider that has been identified through the process is the existing Provider. The intention is to award the contract to the Provider to deliver the new service which is not changing considerably from the previous. The proposed contract start date is 3rd April 2025 for a 5 year period with an option to extend for a further 2 years subject to satisfactory performance and funding availability.Value not stated

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
P0547_2024
Status
complete
Procurement Method
limited
Main Procurement Category
services
Procurement Method Details
Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
Why this procedure was chosen
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 publication of this notice marks the start of the standstill period. Representations by providers must be made to decision makers by 3rd April 2025. This contract has not yet formally been awarded; this notice serves as an intention to award under the PSR

Covered By

GPA

Amendments

Entry 1
Id
2

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 most suitable provider process.

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 publication of this notice marks the start of the standstill period. Representations by providers must be made to decision makers by 3rd April 2025. This contract has not yet formally been awarded; this notice serves as an intention to award under the PSR.

Legal basis

Id
32014L0024
Scheme
CELEX

Classification

Id
85100000
Scheme
CPV
Description
Health services

Procedure reasons

Entry 1
Id
D_OUTSIDE_SCOPE
Scheme
TED_PT_AWARD_CONTRACT_WITHOUT_CALL
Description
The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive

Lots and requirements

Entry 1
Id
1
Status
cancelled
Has Options
Yes
Description
The vision for the new children and young people's drug and alcohol service is to have an integrated service model with wider children and young people services. It will provide a range of young person-centred, sensitive, and trauma-informed services to CYP who may be at risk of substance misuse or currently experiencing substance related harm. The service will be structured to support Children and Young People with three tiers of provision: Universal, Targeted and Specialist. The Service will deliver a Public Health approach to address poor health outcomes of substance misuse and promotes health transitions into adulthood. This notice is an intention to award a contract under the most suitable provider process. The core contract value is £7,483,546. Grant funding of approximately 10% of the contract value (£7,483,546) has been confirmed for Year 1 and will be made available to the Provider for service delivery. Grant funding for additional years is subject to availability of National Grant. The Most Suitable Provider that has been identified through the process is the existing Provider. The intention is to award the contract to the Provider to deliver the new service which is not changing considerably from the previous. The proposed contract start date is 3rd April 2025 for a 5 year period with an option to extend for a further 2 years subject to satisfactory performance and funding availability.

Options

Description
Option to extend for a further 2 years subject to satisfactory performance and funding availability.

Award criteria

Criteria

Criterion 1
Name
most suitable provider process with regard to the key criteria
Type
quality
Description
100%
Criterion 2
Type
price
Description
0%

Items and delivery

Item 1
Id
1
Related Lot
1

Delivery locations

Entry 1
Region
UKG

Additional Classifications

Entry 1
Id
85140000
Scheme
CPV
Description
Miscellaneous health services
Entry 2
Id
85312500
Scheme
CPV
Description
Rehabilitation services

Buyer, suppliers and contacts

Organisation 1
Id
GB-FTS-141338
Name
Birmingham City Council

Roles

buyer

Address

Region
UKG31
Locality
Birmingham
Postal Code
B11BB
Country Name
United Kingdom
Street Address
Council House, 1 Victoria Square

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
Birmingham City Council
No Identifier Rationale
notOnAnyRegister

Contact

Name
Commercial and Procurement Services
Organisation 2
Id
GB-COH-2427100
Name
Aquarius Action Projects

Roles

supplier

Address

Region
UKG
Locality
Birmingham
Postal Code
B5 7SL
Country Name
United Kingdom
Street Address
236 Bristol Road, Edgbaston

Details

Scale
sme

Identifier

Id
2427100
Scheme
GB-COH
Legal Name
Aquarius Action Projects
Organisation 3
Id
GB-FTS-139613
Name
Birmingham City Council

Roles

reviewBody

Address

Locality
Birmingham
Postal Code
B1 1BB
Country Name
United Kingdom
Street Address
Council House, 1 Victoria Square

Identifier

Legal Name
Birmingham City Council

Contact

Award information

Award 1
Id
010643-2025-1
Status
active

Suppliers

Supplier 1
Id
GB-COH-2427100
Name
Aquarius Action Projects

Related lots

1

Contracts and changes

Entry 1
Id
010643-2025-1
Status
active
Award ID
010643-2025-1
Date Signed
21 Mar 2025, 00:00

Value

Amount
7,483,546
Currency
GBP

Recorded locations

  • Buyer location · Birmingham · UKG31 · B11BB · United Kingdom
  • Delivery location · UKG

Notice and amendment history

1 published notice version reviewed by ProcuraAxis.

1 VERSION
  1. ocds-h6vhtk-04f748-2025-04-08T10:41:36+01:00compiled ·