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Reading Borough Council

Drug and Alcohol Treatment and Recovery Contract

HealthcareCPV 85300000
Value£27,330,984
Deadline5 Aug 2026
Published29 Jun 2026
RegionNationwide

£27,330,984 — stated in the notice

Timeline
Published 29 Jun 2026ClosedCloses 5 Aug 2026
Who to contact
pchub@reading.gov.uk

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

How to submit
Open the submissions portal

The submission route named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£27.3mtotal contract value
median £380k
this tender£0£29.5m

This is a large award for Health & Social Care — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 32,734 valued Health & Social Care tenders in our corpus.

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Reading Borough Council's Health & Social Care cycle is past due — it ran about every 19 months across 3 notices, and the door is open now. It may re-tender at any time.

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The brief

Reading Borough Council are completing a ITT exercise for the provision of Drug and Alcohol Treatment and Recovery - Reading Borough Council’s Public Health Team requires a provider to deliver a drug and alcohol treatment and recovery service.

The service must reduce harm, improve health outcomes, and support recovery through evidence based, person centred interventions.

It should address not only drug and/or alcohol use but also wider social and environmental factors, using integrated approaches such as family safeguarding.

Suppliers that would like to take part in this process are invited to "Express Interest" upon which they will be given access to the full documentation delivered through this portal.

Documents can be accessed from the "My Tenders" area of this website by selecting the "View Details" button for the project.

Expressions of interest will only be accepted until 05/08/2026.

Any questions relating to this opportunity should be made via the correspondence link on this portal.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

Reading Borough Council’s Public Health Team requires

Reading Borough Council’s Public Health Team requires a provider to deliver a drug and alcohol treatment and recovery service.

02

The service must reduce harm, improve health

The service must reduce harm, improve health outcomes, and support recovery through evidence based, person centred interventions.

03

It should address not only drug and/or

It should address not only drug and/or alcohol use but also wider social and environmental factors, using integrated approaches such as family safeguarding.

Sentences from the notice that state an obligation, surfaced automatically and shown in the order they appear. Not an exhaustive list — always confirm against the tender documents.

The gates

What this notice demands of you

1 named, none in explicit obligation language. Each one is quoted from the notice.

Safeguarding policyPolicies & commitments
It should address not only drug and/or alcohol use but also wider social and environmental factors, using integrated approaches such as family safeguarding.

Matched against the notice text, so this is a floor — the tender pack will demand things the notice never mentions. “Says must” means the quoted sentence itself used obligation language; anything ambiguous is left as a mention.

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06bed1
Stage
tender · Open
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
060627-2026
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