Contract award notice
Results of the procurement procedure
Section I: Contracting
entity
I.1) Name and addresses
Southampton City Council
Civic Centre, Civic Centre Road
Southampton
SO147LY
UK
E-mail: procurement@southampton.gov.uk
NUTS: UKJ32
Internet address(es)
Main address: https://www.southampton.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
Young People Alcohol & Drug Support Service
II.1.2) Main CPV code
85000000
II.1.3) Type of contract
Services
II.1.4) Short description
The procurement is for a young people's alcohol and drugs treatment and support service in Southampton (for people up to and including the age of 24), which will provide information, advice, harm reduction, care co-ordination, and psycho-social interventions, as well as support for medical interventions.
Help will be available to people whether the young person wants to be safer while using alcohol and drugs, reduce their use, stop using, or stay free from use. The services will also help young people with tobacco-related harm, and young people who are vaping and using novel-nicotine products.
Harm reduction is a principal aim of the services, with recovery seen as a desirable and achievable outcome. These services will be evidence based and tailored to meet the needs of young people, working actively to reduce health inequalities in the City. The contract will run from 1st July 2026 through to March 31st 2029. Contract value is estimated at: £2,917,096 for initial 33 month term. The Council will have the option to extend the contract by a period of up to 36 months.
The maximum contract value is estimated at £6,028,738.92 (ex VAT). The Council is intending to award this contract under the Direct Award Procedure C of The Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023.
II.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots:
No
II.1.7) Total value of the procurement
Value excluding VAT:
6 028 738.92
GBP
II.2) Description
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UKJ32
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
The procurement is for a young people's alcohol and drugs treatment and support service in Southampton (for people up to and including the age of 24), which will provide information, advice, harm reduction, care co-ordination, and psycho-social interventions, as well as support for medical interventions.
Help will be available to people whether the young person wants to be safer while using alcohol and drugs, reduce their use, stop using, or stay free from use. The services will also help young people with tobacco-related harm, and young people who are vaping and using novel-nicotine products.
Harm reduction is a principal aim of the services, with recovery seen as a desirable and achievable outcome. These services will be evidence based and tailored to meet the needs of young people, working actively to reduce health inequalities in the City. The contract will run from 1st July 2026 through to March 31st 2029. Contract value is estimated at: £2,917,096 for initial 33 month term. The Council will have the option to extend the contract by a period of up to 36 months.
The maximum contract value is estimated at £6,028,738.92 (ex VAT). The Council is intending to award this contract under the Direct Award Procedure C of The Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023.
II.2.5) Award criteria
Quality criterion: The existing provider is satisfying the original contract and will likely satisfy the proposed contract to a sufficient standard.
/ Weighting: 100
Cost criterion: Contract delivery confirmed by Provider to be within available funding.
/ Weighting: 0
II.2.11) Information about options
Options:
Yes
Description of options:
There will be an option to extend the contract for a period of up to 36 months, from 1st April 2029 through to 31st March 2032.
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 the relevant authority by the end of Monday 22nd June 2026. 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:
No
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
09/06/2026
V.2.2) Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 1
The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators:
No
V.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
No Limits (South)
04183173
Southampton
UK
NUTS: UKJ32
The contractor is an SME:
Yes
V.2.4) Information on value of the contract/lot (excluding VAT)
Total value of the contract/lot:
: 6 028 738.92
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 decision makers by the end of Monday 22nd June 2026, via email at: procurement@southampton.gov.uk . This contract has not yet formally been awarded; this notice serves as an intention to award under the PSR. The award decision makers are officers of Southampton City Council, specifically those working within the Council's Public Health and Commissioning (Community & Wellbeing) sections.
No actual or potential conflicts of interest were declared by individuals making the decision to award this contract. The relative importance of the key criteria, each weighted as a percentage out of 100, were as follows:
Improving Access, Reducing Health Inequalities and Facilitating Choice 23%; Integration, Collaboration & Service Sustainability 23%; Quality & Innovation 26%; Value 18%; Social Value 10%.
The relative importance of each key criteria was determined by consideration of the importance of each in relation to the importance of the others, and in terms of their relative essentiality to the delivery of the specification requirements.
The selection of the provider to whom the contract is intended to be awarded was based on assessment of their current and likely future service delivery of the contract and its specification against each of the key criteria: This assessment concluded that the provider had satisfactorily delivered the existing contract in the respect to each of the key criteria and would likely continue to do so in respect of the new contract that the Council intends to award the provider.
VI.4) Procedures for review
VI.4.1) Review body
Independent Patient Choice and Procurement Panel
https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=slTDN7CF9UeyIge0jXdO47kp0aGZXo5Il1ClUdRBSnhUMUJDQ0tWN0pEUlhFNjVQTVhZMTBFWTdOSy4u
London
UK
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice
09/06/2026