Coming up· published 9 Jul 2025
Residential Rehabilitation Unit Development
Essex County Council · Chelmsford, East
Essex County Council is planning Residential Rehabilitation Unit Development. It is a contract for other health and social care in Chelmsford.
Source: Find a Tender, published 9 Jul 2025. Details are refreshed every 30 minutes.
Key dates
2025
Pipeline notice published
UK2 - Preliminary Market Engagement Notice · 09:30
View notice2025
Pipeline notice published
UK2 - Preliminary Market Engagement Notice · 08:49
View notice2025
Tender notice expected
Date given in the buyer's earlier notice
2026
Contract starts
Next
2033
Contract ends
7 years after it starts
About this tender
In brief
Essex County Council is planning Residential Rehabilitation Unit Development. It is a contract for other health and social care in Chelmsford. The buyer has published an early notice. It gives providers time to prepare before the tender opens. The contract runs from 1 March 2026 to 28 February 2033. It lasts 7 years.
The buyer marks it as suitable for SMEs and VCSEs. Find a Tender published it on 9 July 2025. The notice number is 038447-2025. The OCDS ID is ocds-h6vhtk-04e9fd.
Summary of the contracting process
Essex County Council is in the planning stage of procuring a co-design and co-delivery partner for a residential rehabilitation service, titled "Residential Rehabilitation Unit Development." This initiative focuses on health and social work services within Essex, United Kingdom, catering especially to complex needs related to drug and alcohol interventions.
The project aims to address the current lack of residential treatment services in the region by establishing a unit with 20-30 beds and offering integrated therapeutic programmes. Key upcoming date for interested suppliers is a deadline on 23 July 2025 to engage in market discussions and site visits.
The tender process aligns with a "light touch" procurement regime and falls above the threshold, aiming for a service scope to include a national provision with local allocations. The procurement process invites participation from SMEs and VCSEs, making it ideal for entities managing both publicly and privately funded clients.
Suitable partners should have a minimum of five years’ experience and involvement with CQC registered units, catering to clients with complex requirements. By engaging with Essex County Council by 31 March 2025, businesses can express interest, thus potentially expanding their operational landscape and client base within and beyond Essex.
The notice in full
We are undertaking a procurement process with the intention of seeking a co-design and co-delivery partner for a residential rehabilitation service in Essex. Currently across Essex and the wider Eastern Region, there are no residential treatment services to which community services can refer. Individuals requiring these interventions are referred to providers across the country presenting issues in relation to complex needs.
We are seeking a provider to deliver an integrated/eclectic model of delivery, with a combination or shorter term lower intensity programmes and longer term more intensive therapeutic interventions. We are looking to develop a unit with approximately 20-30 beds as well as providing medically assisted detox on site.
The service will be a national provision but will allocate a proportion of beds from the facility to the County Council area of Essex (or subsequent Local Authority arrangements post Devolution/LGR). Following initial market engagement conversations we would like to invite providers to a follow up market engagement discussion and site visit of a potential property for re-development. If you are interested in this opportunity, please contact Emma.Tulip-Betts@essex.gov.uk by 23/07/2025.
Lots: no lot details came through with this notice. The official notice and the tender pack have the full breakdown.
Key facts
Contract
- Service
- Other health and social care
- Procurement type
- Standard
- Category
- Services
- Contract period
- 1 Mar 2026 to 28 Feb 2033 (7 years)
- Suitable for
- Small and medium sized businesses (SMEs); Voluntary, community and social enterprises (VCSEs)
Procedure
- Notice type
- UK2 - Preliminary Market Engagement Notice
- Current stage
- Planning
- Stages so far
- Planning
- Published on
- Find a Tender Service
Not stated in the notice: procurement method, awardee scale.
Values
Not stated in the notice: tender value, lots value, awards value, contracts value.
Status
- Tender
- Planning
- Lots
- Planning
Not stated in the notice: awards, contracts.
References
- Find a Tender notice
- 038447-2025
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-04e9fd
- CPV code
- 85000000 - Health and social work services
- CPV division
- 85 - Health and social work services
Location
- Local authority
- Chelmsford
- Town
- Chelmsford
- Postcode
- CM1 1QH
- Electoral ward
- Moulsham and Central
- Constituency
- Chelmsford
- Delivery area
- Essex
- Region
- East
- Sub-region
- Heart of Essex
- Area
- Essex
- Country
- England
Buyer
Contracting authority
- Organisation
- Essex County Council
- Category
- Services
- Address
- Chelmsford, CM1 1QH · East · England
Not stated in the notice: contact, phone.
Documents and links
- Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tenderfind-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/038447-2025
- Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tenderfind-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/008141-2025
- Legislation.gov.uklegislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/54/contents
- OCDS record ocds-h6vhtk-04e9fd (JSON)find-tender.service.gov.uk/api/1.0/ocdsReleasePackages/ocds-h…
Questions about Residential Rehabilitation Unit Development
When will the Residential Rehabilitation Unit Development tender open?
Essex County Council has not yet given a date for the tender notice. An early notice is the time to answer any market engagement questions and gather the evidence a bid will need.
How long is the Residential Rehabilitation Unit Development contract?
The contract runs from 1 March 2026 to 28 February 2033 (7 years).
Who is the buyer for Residential Rehabilitation Unit Development?
Essex County Council, based in Chelmsford, East.
How do I bid for Residential Rehabilitation Unit Development?
Register on the buyer's portal named in the notice, download the tender pack and check every condition of participation before you start writing. The buyer has marked it as suitable for SMEs and VCSEs. Care Sync Experts writes and reviews care tender bids from £1,500 + VAT.
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What to do next
- Read the early notice in full.
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- Gather your evidence and case studies now.
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- Watch for the tender notice.
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