Health and social work services

Tender description

HM Government Drugs (and alcohol) Strategy 2010, Reducing Demand, Restricting Supply, Building Recovery: Supporting People to Live a Drug Free Life recognises the evidence base for specialist education, advice, support and treatment services for children, young people and adults who have experienced harm related to alcohol and/or drug use. The strategy encourages a ‘whole system’ outcome focussed approach, working with education, training, employment, housing, family support services, wider health services and where relevant, prison, probation, and youth justice services to address the needs of the whole person. Services should build close links between community, in-patient, residential treatment and rehabilitation providers who in turn, need to forge close links with After-care services. The strategy aims are for individual, person centred approaches toward an alcohol/drug free life and to build: — Social capital the resource a person has from their relationships (e.g. family, partners, children, friends and peers). This includes both support received, and commitment and obligations resulting from relationships; — Physical capital such as money and a safe place to live; — Human capital skills, mental and physical health, and a job; and — Cultural capital values, beliefs and attitudes held by the individual. The purpose of this pre-procurement market engagement process is for Luton Borough Council to: — Engage with the supply market and support providers to use their local and national knowledge of alcohol and drug systems to contribute to our needs and assets assessment; — Help us get a sense of the current market position, to identify areas of innovation and new thinking and to benefit from examples of good practice you are aware of from elsewhere; — To be able to evaluate findings from the event to inform the new children, young people and adult alcohol and drug service specification(s). The Council will consider the input and responses received as part of this pre-procurement market engagement to help inform the Council with options and decision making in regards to the future procurement. For the avoidance of doubt, this stage of the project is not part of a formal procurement process. Participation or non-participation in the pre-procurement market engagement process shall not prevent any supplier participating in the proposed procurement nor is it intended that any information supplied as part of the pre-procurement engagement shall place any supplier at an advantage in the proposed procurement process. Luton Borough Council is looking to appoint suitably qualified and experienced provider/providers who can demonstrate an in depth understanding of the requirements. The Council welcomes interest from the voluntary sector and small and medium enterprises. The contract will run for an initial term of 5 years with an option to extend for a further 1 plus 1 years (5 + 1 + 1) subject to Council budgets and final approval, satisfactory performance and contract outcomes. This notice is intended to inform prospective providers of the indicative tender time-scales for the project and invite organisations to take part in a market engagement exercise to discuss good practise and innovation which will inform the needs assessment. Prospective providers are invited to express an interest in the forthcoming procurement exercise and supplier meetings. Please express an interest by e mailing Vivienne.Blagrove@luton.gcsx.gov.uk Please provide the names and roles of the people who will attend the open day — ideally we would like no more than 3 from any organisation. A stakeholder event will be held on the 8.6.2016 starting at 9:00. and finishing at 14:00. It is anticipated the ITT will be issued in early August 2016 with return date around the end of September 2016. The contract start will be on the 1.4.2017 The value indicated below is for the life of the contract.