Health and social work services

Tender description

Northamptonshire County Council is running a simultaneous procurement process for Services for the treatment of drug and alcohol addictions. The detailed requirements are defined in the Specification, but please see below summary for each Lot. Please note: The budgets are only protected for year 1 of the contracts. The service will be required from 1 April 2018 for an initial period of 4 years (up to 31 March 2022) with Lots 1, 2 and 4 having an option to extend for a further period of up to 4 years, taking the total contract term to a maximum of 8 years for these Lots (Lot 3 is for 4 years only). Any extension will be agreed between the Council and the provider(s). Structured treatment service for adults and young people in Northamptonshire will include prescribing, OST, psychosocial interventions and responsibility for the management of the residential rehab, inpatient and ambulatory detox, shared care with GP surgeries, needle exchange, supervised consumption with pharmacies, the distribution of naloxone and foil. It will also introduce an integral mental health service, capable of meeting the needs of Northamptonshire clients; provide structured treatment for young people allowing them access to the specialist resources as needed and house the re-designed single point of contact representing all services. Recovery service - The proposed recovery service for all treatment and recovery clients in Northamptonshire, will be peer-based and provide an interface with structured treatment. It will host mutual treatment options and includes the management of the PHaSE housing project. Specialised training service - Providing training on drug and alcohol awareness for substance misuse services for older people aged 45 and over. Young people’s early intervention service. Those who require structured treatment (moderate to severe addictions) will be managed in the community by the early intervention service with structured treatment drawn from the all-through service. This ensures that those who need treatment can access the best available with interventions taking place within the young person’s community environment. The EI service will comprise the larger part and will have workers embedded in clusters where they will devise an appropriate prevention agenda for young people. Where the young person requires more intensive treatment the service will draw down resources from the treatment service (Lot 1).