Official UK procurement notice
HAC6052 Substance Misuse Redesign
Authority: Tower Hamlets
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionLondon Borough of Tower Hamlets is recommissioning a borough-wide, world-class adult substance misuse treatment system, aligned with the Combatting Drugs Partnership Strategy (2024–2027). Currently Tower Hamlets commission and deliver a range of substance misuse treatment and recovery services for residents aged 18 plus, collectively branded as “Reset”. These services meet the needs of Tower Hamlet’s residents facing the challenges of substance misuse by equipping individuals with the tools to move towards a life where drugs and alcohol do not negatively impact on themselves, their families, and/or the wider community.
The borough’s substance misuse treatment and recovery services have undergone significant change over the last six years. The “Reset” service model was launched in October 2019, followed by a challenging period of mobilisation during the pandemic years. More recently the borough has seen a substantial increase in investment, through time-limited grant programmes in support of the national drug strategy, From Harm to Hope. This has resulted in a series of iterative, short-term investments to improve the quality and outcomes of services, with the aim of increasing the numbers of individuals accessing and sustaining treatment.
Following a period of review the borough is seeking to re-procure these services; providing an opportunity to build on the successes of the last few years and refresh our model within the context of a more sustainable funding framework.
This notice is used to:
- Advertise a market engagement event taking place at the Town Hall on 5th October 2026
- Collect information from small local suppliers who may wish to work as a sub-contractor to the main contractor in delivery of the required services
- Market Engagement Event
Please register your interest in the market engagement event via www.eventbrite.com/e/2001388103694 ↗ by Friday 2nd October at midday (12:00)
- Local Supplier Engagement
Please also register your interest in the market engagement event via the link above. You also have the opportunity to provide the council with a prospectus for your organisation which will be provided to interested parties as part of the wider tender pack. The aim of this prospectus is to provide information to bidders in relation to the local micro and small businesses which may support in the wider delivery. Further detail on the contents of the prospectus is available on The London Tenders Portal (link below).
For more information please refer to The London Tender Portal (www.londontenders.org ↗) and search for opportunity DN785754. Here you will find further documentation.
Please note, this opportunity will be procured under the Provider Selection Regime
CPV: Health and social work services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewal
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Tower Hamlets buys Health and social work services (CPV 85), and who usually turns up
Tower Hamlets’s published record next to the market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Health and social work services (CPV 85) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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How often small and medium firms win.
Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.
The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.
Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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How often local firms win similar work.
Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.
Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in Greater London.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered. More of this buyer’s work stays local than in this market: 98% against 60%, n=43.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards have an award date within 47 days of the bid deadline.
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How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.
Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.
The market share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
Direct awards or one recorded bid are common here. Check the route before spending time on a bid.
How many bids did past lots attract?
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How many bids past lots received.
Each colour is a bid-count range. Only competed lots with a published count are included.
Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid32% / 26%
2–326% / 33%
4–626% / 25%
7+16% / 16%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
Each colour shows awards below, close to or above the published estimate, one lot at a time.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Below estimate27% / 37%
Within ±2%60% / 55%
Above estimate13% / 8%
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list
Lot #1CPV 85Published estimate£37m
This lot lists more than one class in CPV 85. The comparison uses that group.
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How many bids this lot may attract.
The forecast uses similar past competitions. The bar shows either that forecast or past bid counts; the line below says which.
Each lot shows its own forecast based on its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative. The bar shows 334 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid26%
2–333%
4–625%
7+16%
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Where the award price may land.
The forecast uses similar awards and the buyer’s estimate. The band covers the middle half of likely prices.
No comparable awards for this lot yet.
A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.
Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
Who could compete for this lot? i
Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
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Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.
About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
- Two views, kept apart. The authority’s own track record and the wider market for the same kind of work sit side by side and are never mixed. Where the local picture is too thin, a figure widens to a broader market and says which one it used.
- Forecasts are labelled. The price forecast and its range, possible competitors and the earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards: not published facts, not win chances and not price advice. Official notices do not say who is bidding.
- Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Light touch regime
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 6 Aug 2025, 14:04 BST
- Last source update
- 23 Sept 2026, 17:01 BST
- Authority reference
HAC6052- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-090330- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-058284Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
6 Aug 2025 → 25 Oct 2027 · 5 dates- Planning notice published6 Aug 2025, 14:04 BST
- Latest notice published33 days ago23 Sept 2026, 17:01 BST
- Market engagement24 days ago2 Oct 2026, 23:59 BST
Bidders are to register their interest to attend the market engagement event on 5th October at www.eventbrite.com/e/2001388103694 ↗
Further information can be found on the London Tenders Portal under opportunity DN785754
- Today27 Oct 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 13h27 Oct 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 362 days25 Oct 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
6 events · 4 releases on Find a Tender · since 6 Aug 2025- Preliminary market engagement notice published6 Aug 2025, 14:04 BSTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published16 Sept 2026, 12:23 BSTUK2
- Published value published: £25,821,10816 Sept 2026, 12:23 BST
- Preliminary market engagement notice published16 Sept 2026, 12:34 BSTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published23 Sept 2026, 17:01 BSTUK2
- Published value updated to £36,950,00023 Sept 2026, 17:01 BSTwas £25,821,108
Published amendments (1)
Updates to the description, value and end date for the market engagement period
Routine re-releases (4)
- 2025-08: 1 release · 6 Aug 2025
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (4)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender