Awarded· 22 May 2025
Datrig funding - ARA
Bristol City Council · Bristol, City of, South West
Bristol City Council has awarded Datrig funding - ARA. It is a contract for other health and social care in Bristol, City of.
Source: Find a Tender, published 4 Jun 2025. Details are refreshed every 30 minutes.
Key dates
2025
Contract awarded
Addiction Recovery Agency (ara
2025
Award notice published
Award Notice · 11:42
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About this tender
In brief
Bristol City Council has awarded Datrig funding - ARA. It is a contract for other health and social care in Bristol, City of. The contract went to Addiction Recovery Agency (ara. It was awarded on 22 May 2025. The contract value is £695,000.
It is run as an award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition. Find a Tender published it on 4 June 2025. The notice number is 029854-2025. The OCDS ID is ocds-h6vhtk-052c58.
Summary of the contracting process
The procurement process centres around Bristol City Council awarding a contract to the Addiction Recovery Agency (ARA) for rehabilitation services. The contract, titled "DATRIG funding - ARA," aims to support vulnerable individuals affected by substance misuse with housing support and recovery programmes. This falls under the services category and is located in Bristol, UK, specifically within the UKK11 region.
The procurement method was a limited award procedure without prior publication, justified under the Provider Selection Regime (PSR) 2023 rules. The contract has been directly awarded to ARA, which has been providing the services since previous years supported by the Housing Support and Rough Sleepers grants, superseded by the DATRIG grant for 2025/26.
The contract, valued at £695,000, was signed on 23 May 2025, with the award currently marked as active.
The notice in full
To provide vulnerable service users affected by substance abuse with housing support alongside a recovery programme.
Lots (1)
- 01
Lot 1Cancelled
The criteria of the service fits within the defined category area of CPV code 85312500-4 "Rehabilitation services, but only insofar as such services are provided to individuals to tackle substance misuse or for the rehabilitation of the mental or physical health of individuals", this states that the criteria of services provided for this contract fall within schedule 1 of PSR 2023 regulations, and as such this contract can be awarded under PSR 2023 regulations.
ARA currently delivers supported housing to those with substance use addictions under their core contract with our homelessness team, called "Pathway 4". They have been delivering an extended service from the Housing Support and Rough Sleepers grants we have received in previous years; we will continue with this extended service from the DATRIG grant that has superseded these for 2025/26.
They are the only capable provider of the service BECAUSE we would not be able to split providers to deliver an extension of this current service as this would directly impact the service user in the quality of service, they would receive with a disjointed service offer from the main contract and would also not be the most effective use of public funds, we MUST award via "Direct Award Process A" detailed in section 7 of the PSR 2023 regulations.
Section 6 (4) of PSR 2023 states that a contracting authority MUST follow the route to direct award if the following terms have been fulfilled;
(a)the proposed contracting arrangements relate to relevant health care services in respect of which a patient is offered a choice of provider, (b)the number of providers is not restricted by the relevant authority, (c)the relevant authority will offer contracts to all providers to whom an award can be made because they meet all requirements in relation to the provision of the relevant health care services to patients,
(d)the relevant authority has arrangements in place to enable providers to express an interest in providing the relevant health care services, and (e)the procurement is not to conclude a framework agreement, I can confirm that the above requirements are met and as such it is within the bounds of PSR 2023 regulations to directly award this contract to the Addiction Recovery Agency (ARA).
Key facts
Contract
- Service
- Other health and social care
- Procurement type
- Standard
- Category
- Services
- Contract period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Lots
- 1
- Awarded to
- Addiction Recovery Agency (ara
- Number of suppliers
- 1
Procedure
- Notice type
- Award Notice
- Procurement method
- Limited
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Current stage
- Award
- Stages so far
- Award
- Published on
- Find a Tender Service
- Awardee scale
- Large
Values
- Contracts value
- £695,000
Not stated in the notice: tender value, lots value, awards value.
Status
- Tender
- Complete
- Lots
- Cancelled
- Awards
- Active
- Contracts
- Active
References
- Find a Tender notice
- 029854-2025
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-052c58
- CPV code
- 85312500 - Rehabilitation services
- CPV division
- 85 - Health and social work services
Location
- Local authority
- Bristol, City of
- Town
- Bristol
- Postcode
- BS3 9FS
- Electoral ward
- Bedminster
- Constituency
- Bristol South
- Delivery area
- Bristol, City of
- Region
- South West
- Sub-region
- Bristol, City of
- Area
- West of England
- Country
- England
Buyer and supplier
Contracting authority
- Organisation
- Bristol City Council
- Category
- Services
- Contact
- User Luke Connolly
- Phone
- +44 0
- Address
- Bristol, BS3 9FS · South West · England
Awarded supplier
- Supplier
- Addiction Recovery Agency (ara
- Awardee scale
- Large
- Number of suppliers
- 1
- Awards value
- Not stated
- Company record
- Search Companies House
Documents and links
Questions about Datrig funding - ARA
Who won the Datrig funding - ARA contract?
Bristol City Council awarded the contract to Addiction Recovery Agency (ara on 22 May 2025.
How much is the Datrig funding - ARA contract worth?
The contract value is £695,000.
Who is the buyer for Datrig funding - ARA?
Bristol City Council, based in Bristol, City of, South West. The named contact is User Luke Connolly, on +44 0.
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