Contract award notice
Results of the procurement procedure
Section I: Contracting
entity
I.1) Name and addresses
Birmingham City Council
Council House, 1 Victoria Square
Birmingham
B11BB
UK
Contact person: Commercial and Procurement Services
E-mail: etendering@birmingham.gov.uk
NUTS: UKG31
Internet address(es)
Main address: www.birmingham.gov.uk
I.4) Type of the contracting authority
Regional or local authority
I.5) Main activity
General public services
Section II: Object
II.1) Scope of the procurement
II.1.1) Title
Children and Young People's Substance Misuse Treatment Service
Reference number: P0547_2024
II.1.2) Main CPV code
85100000
II.1.3) Type of contract
Services
II.1.4) Short 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.
II.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots:
No
II.1.7) Total value of the procurement
Value excluding VAT:
7 483 546.00
GBP
II.2) Description
II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
85140000
85312500
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UKG
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
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.
II.2.5) Award criteria
Quality criterion: most suitable provider process with regard to the key criteria
/ Weighting: 100%
Price
/ Weighting:
0%
II.2.11) Information about options
Options:
Yes
Description of options:
Option to extend for a further 2 years subject to satisfactory performance and funding availability.
II.2.13) Information about European Union funds
The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds:
No
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1) Description
IV.1.1) Type of procedure
Award of a contract without prior publication of a call for competition
Justification for selected award procedure:
The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the Directive
Explanation
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
IV.1.8) Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement:
Yes
Section V: Award of contract
A contract/lot is awarded:
Yes
V.2 Award of contract
V.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract
21/03/2025
V.2.2) Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 2
The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators:
No
V.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
Aquarius Action Projects
2427100
236 Bristol Road, Edgbaston
Birmingham
B5 7SL
UK
NUTS: UKG
The contractor is an SME:
Yes
V.2.4) Information on value of the contract/lot (excluding VAT)
Total value of the contract/lot:
: 7 483 546.00
GBP
V.2.5) Information about subcontracting
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.3) Additional information
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 the relevant authority by 3rd April 2025. This contract has not yet formally been awarded; this notice serves as an intention to award under the PSR.
Representations should be sent etendering@birmingham.gov.uk
Details of the award decision-makers:
Director of Public Health in conjunction with Director of Commercial & Procurement (or their delegate) Executive Director of Finance and Section 151 Officer (or their delegate) and the Director of Legal & Monitoring Officer (or their delegate)
There is no conflict of interest identified.
The relative importance key criteria used to make a decision was
80% Quality (Key Criteria excluding SV), 20% Social Value (SV).
Aquarius Action Projects ranked first with reference to assessment of the basic and key criteria set out in Regulation 10 of the 'Most Suitable Provider Process'.
VI.4) Procedures for review
VI.4.1) Review body
Birmingham City Council
Council House, 1 Victoria Square
Birmingham
B1 1BB
UK
E-mail: etendering@birmingham.gov.uk
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice
21/03/2025