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Open tender · Notice 101395-2026

HAC6052 Integrated Adult Alcohol and Drug Prevention, Treatment and Recovery Service

Tower Hamlets

Value
£36.9m
Closes
23 Dec 2026 (45 days)
Where
London
Lots
1
Suitable for SMEs
Not stated
Contract
Not stated

In plain English

Tower Hamlets council wants one provider to run its adult drug and alcohol treatment and recovery service, covering treatment, prescribing, counselling-style support, outreach, recovery support and agreed criminal-justice case management. The contract starts on 25 October 2027 for three years, with possible extensions of up to 24 months (five years in total), within an annual budget of £7.37m and an estimated total value of £36,850,000.

Good fit for: Established drug and alcohol treatment charities or providers able to run a full borough-wide integrated service.

The catch (with the notice's own words):
  • One provider must run the whole service through one integrated contract with a single accountable provider
  • Must work alongside other named services retain formal interfaces with services outside the contract, including Reset Discovery

Written with AI from the official notice. Check the notice before relying on it.

What the buyer says

This tender is for the recommission of the adult drug and alcohol treatment and recovery system through one integrated contract with a single accountable provider. The service will: • bring together core treatment, prescribing, psychosocial interventions, outreach, recovery support, IPS and agreed criminal-justice treatment/case-management functions; • provide a coherent resident pathway with strong harm-reduction, rough-sleeping, hospital, mental-health, primary-care, family, 18–25 and digital pathways; • retain formal interfaces with services outside the contract, including Reset Discovery (culturally sensitive recovery support service), P-RESET, Barts/ELFT, CYP provision, Tier 4 and Council-retained criminal-justice functions; • operate within a £7.37m annual financial envelope and commence on 25 October 2027. The Contract Period is initially for a period of three years, although the Authority reserves the right to extend the Contract on the same terms for further periods of 12 months, up to 24 months, making a total possible Contract Period of five years.

Getting the documents

londontenders.org (the buyer's own site, usually free to register).

Procedure: Open procedure (Open: anyone can bid, in one stage). Published 27 Oct 2026.

What similar contracts went for

Similar contracts went for £8.4m to £71m (10 since 2025; 1 won by small firms).

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From the award notices on Find a Tender and Public Contracts Scotland. Values are as each notice states them and cover the contract's whole term: most notices give the value before VAT, but about one in seven gives only a figure including VAT. AI picked these as the same kind of work and can be wrong, so check what each one included before you price.

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