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Provision of Lived Experience and Recovery Support – Drugs, Alcohol and Suicide Prevention - PSR Direct Award Process C.
This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) confirmation of contract award notice. This contract has been awarded under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime)
Regulations 2023.
For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 and Procurement Act 2023 do not apply to this award. This contract has now been formally awarded using direct award process C.
The supplier was notified in March 2025.
The contract will run from 1st April 2025 - 31st March 2026 with the option to extend up to 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 years, subject to satisfactory contract review and budget availability.
This procurement was divided into 1 lots, each awarded separately. 1 bids were received in total.
Lots
1
Initial Term Value
£745,695
Bids Received
1
Bids per Lot
1
Limited competition: at least one lot received only a single bid.
Lot
Value
Bids Received
Awarded To
Status
Lot 1
Apr 2025 – Mar 2030
£745,695
initial term
1
single bid — no competition
Empowerment Charity Lancashire
active
Data note: the source feed marks these lots as cancelled even though their awards are active — an inconsistency in the published notice. The award status is shown above.
Award criteria
Weightings from the notice.
Value20%(price)
Social Value10%(price)
Improving access, reducing health inequalities, and facilitating choice30%(price)
Integration, collaboration and service sustainability25%(price)
Quality and innovation15%(price)
Key Dates
Published
12 May 2025
Tender Open
-
Tender Deadline
30 April 2025
Award Date
-
Contract Signed
31 March 2025
Contract Start
-
Contract End
-
Planned term
1 April 2025 – 31 March 2030
Notice Amendments
Changes the buyer published to this notice after it first appeared.
Amendment 2
Description of the Procurement (1.2.4): Provision of Lived Experience and Recovery Support – Drugs, Alcohol and Suicide Prevention
It is Blackpool Councils intension to award a Services Agreement to Empowerment Charity
Lancashire who is the existing provider following direct award process. → Provision of Lived Experience and Recovery Support – Drugs, Alcohol and Suicide Prevention
It is Blackpool Councils intension to award a Services Agreement to Empowerment Charity Lancashire who is the existing provider following PSR direct award process C.
The life time value is approx. £3,728,000
It is anticipated that the Agreement will run from 1st April 2025 to 31st March 2026 (with the
option to incrementally extend up to 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 years subject to satisfactory contract review
and budget availability)
Award Criteria - as the existing provider is satisfying the original contract and will likely
satisfy the proposed contract to a sufficient standard weighting 100.
Procurement Details
Method
Limited — the buyer invited chosen suppliers
Method Details
Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
Route to market
Direct award
Main category
Services
Category
–
Delivery location
UKD42
Open under
WTO Government Procurement Agreement
Buyer Reference
DN773068
Legal Basis
Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (EU Directive 2014/24)