Adults Substance Misuse Treatment & Recovery Service

The Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames is seeking to carry out a preliminary market engagement exercise in relation to the provision of community drug and alcohol treatment and recovery service for adults. All answers provided will assist the Council in shaping and scoping requirements and will provide insight into the most suitable procurement route. Any information provided will be strictly confidential and non-binding. The Council wishes to provide fixed points of contact for this market engagement exercise and interested parties are requested not to contact any other individual or team at the Council or any of its other advisors. Any enquiries and responses should be sent via the messaging function within the London Tenders Portal. The Council is committed to ensuring fairness, openness and transparency, and to follow UK procurement regulations. This market engagement exercise does not constitute any commitment by the Council or any of its stakeholders to undertake any public procurement exercise in the future. Interested parties will not be prejudiced by any response or failure to respond to the market engagement exercise and an expression of interest in response to the PIN or the completion of the questionnaire does not guarantee any invitation to participate in informal discussions with the Council or any future public procurement process that the Council may conduct. This market engagement activity does not constitute a call for competition to procure any services, supplies or works for the Council and the Council is not bound to accept any proposals offered. The Council is not liable for any costs, fees or expenses incurred by any party participating in the scoping exercise. This procurement exercise is conducted in accordance with the Provider Selection Regime (PSR), as established under the Health and Care Act 2022. Consequently, this process is formally exempt from the application of the provisions under the Procurement Act 2023.