Health and social work services

Tender description

Southend-on-Sea Borough Council are publishing this VEAT Notice to inform the market that we intend to award a contract to cgl following unsuitable tenders received in response to an open procedure. In June 2017 a notice was published to run an open tender under reference 2017/S 110-221851 for Drug and Alcohol Early Intervention, Treatment and Recovery System in Southend-on-Sea. The contract was split out into 5 different lots and following extensive evaluation and clarification processes from the tenders that were received, and due to the interdependency between the service elements, the Council was not able to award any contracts for lots 1-4 in isolation, but have awarded a conract for lot 5. Therefore a negotiated procedure was necessary and undertaken with the incumbent provider to ensure continuous service provision for vulnerable service users. The services fall under the Light Touch Regime. The justification for the choice of negotiated procedure without prior publication of a call for competition in accordance with regulation 32, is no suitable tenders were received in response to an open procedure.