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PUB26168 - Expression of Interest - Substance Use Peer Outreach Programme

Torbay Council

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Planning

12 Aug 2026 at 13:06

UK2 - Preliminary Market Engagement Notice
Summary of the contracting process

Torbay Council is exploring suppliers to deliver a Substance Use Peer Outreach Programme across Torbay. The service will replace the current Peer Development Programme, which supports people with lived and living experience of substance use, known as peers, to take an active role in delivering harm-reduction interventions for people who use drugs. This is a health and social work service (CPV 85000000), delivered within Torbay. The programme is intended to continue the existing peer-development approach under a name that more accurately reflects its substance-use outreach purpose. The procurement concerns one service lot and is classified as a light-touch public service. The council is the buying organisation and is assessing whether the market has sufficient capability to provide the service.

This procurement is at the planning and preliminary market-engagement stage; it is an expression of interest exercise, not an invitation to tender. Torbay Council expects the future service to run for 16.5 months from 16 November 2026 to 31 March 2028, with a possible further 16.5-month extension to 15 August 2029. The council has indicated a gross estimated value of £93,383.40, including taxes, and a net value of £77,819.50. It expects to publish the next notice on 18 September 2026. Organisations expressing interest are expected to complete the Expression of Interest Response and return it through the online messaging facility by 5:00pm on 2 September 2026. The single lot is suitable for SMEs.

This will suit organisations experienced in substance-use support, harm reduction, peer-led services, community outreach or related health and social care provision. Suppliers should be able to recruit, train, support and coordinate people with lived or living experience of substance use, and enable them to contribute safely and effectively to interventions for people who use drugs. The buyer is seeking organisations with the capacity and capability to undertake a full procurement exercise and deliver the programme when it reaches the market. Experience of working with vulnerable people, building trust in communities and managing peer workers is likely to be relevant. Providers should prepare to explain their organisational capacity, service model, safeguarding arrangements, partnership approach and ability to maintain continuity from the existing programme.

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Notice Information

Notice Title

PUB26168 - Expression of Interest - Substance Use Peer Outreach Programme

Notice Description

Torbay Council is exploring the market capability to contract with a supplier for delivery of a Substance Use Peer Outreach Programme. A Peer Development Programme is currently being delivered in Torbay, with the contract expiring with the existing provider on 16th November 2026. Going forwards, this contract will be delivered under the name of the Substance Use Peer Outreach Programme, to more accurately reflect the specification of this service. The Council is seeking to gauge the level of interest from the wider market to deliver this service going forwards for another 16.5 months, from 16th November 2026 to 31st March 2028, with the potential for an extension of 16.5 months until 15th August 2029. The Torbay Peer Development Programme has provided training and support for people with lived and living experience of substance use, also known as a 'peer', to enable them to take an active role in delivering harm reduction interventions to people who use drugs across Torbay. This Expression of Interest (EOI) opportunity is being conducted by Torbay Council's external tendering portal: Supplying The South West: ( www.supplyingthesouthwest.org.uk ), and the ProContract system which sits behind this. Any organisation expressing an interest in this EOI opportunity will be automatically taken to the next procurement stage and therefore should have the organisational capacity and capability to undertake a full procurement exercise, if required. Please refer to the Expression of Interest document on ProContract, for further details of requirements. Providers are required to first, express their interest against the opportunity on ProContract, then fully complete section B 'Expression of Interest Response,' and return the EOI document. Completed EOI forms must be returned as an attachment through the 'Messaging' facility on the ProContract e-tendering system, please, by no later 5:00pm on Wednesday 2nd September 2026.

Planning Information

This Expression of Interest (EOI) opportunity is being conducted by Torbay Council’s external tendering portal: Supplying The South West ( www.supplyingthesouthwest.org.uk ), and the ProContract system which sits behind this. Any organisation expressing an interest in this EOI opportunity will be automatically taken to the next procurement stage and therefore should have the organisational capacity and capability to undertake a full procurement exercise, if required. Please refer to the Expression of Interest document on ProContract, for further details of requirements. Providers are required to first, express their interest against the opportunity on ProContract, then fully complete section B ‘Expression of Interest Response,’ and return the EOI document. Completed EOI forms must be returned as an attachment through the ‘Messaging’ facility on the ProContract e-tendering system, please, by no later 5:00pm on Wednesday 2nd September 2026.

Notice Details

Publication & Lifecycle

Open Contracting ID
ocds-h6vhtk-06e291
Publication Source
Find A Tender Service
Latest Notice
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/076767-2026
Current Stage
Planning
All Stages
Planning

Procurement Classification

Notice Type
UK2 - Preliminary Market Engagement Notice
Procurement Type
Standard
Procurement Category
Services
Procurement Method
Not Specified
Procurement Method Details
Not specified
Tender Suitability
SME
Awardee Scale
Not specified

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

CPV Divisions

85 - Health and social work services

CPV Codes

85000000 - Health and social work services

Notice Value(s)

Tender Value
£77,819 Under £100K
Lots Value
Not specified
Awards Value
Not specified
Contracts Value
Not specified

Notice Dates

Publication Date
12 Aug 20261 weeks ago
Submission Deadline
Not specified
Future Notice Date
18 Sep 20264 weeks to go
Award Date
Not specified
Contract Period
16 Nov 2026 - 31 Mar 2028 1-2 years
Recurrence
Not specified

Notice Status

Tender Status
Planning
Lots Status
Planning
Awards Status
Not Specified
Contracts Status
Not Specified

Buyer & Supplier

Contracting Authority (Buyer)

Main Buyer
Torbay Council
Contact Name
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Contact Email
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Contact Phone
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Buyer Location

Locality
TORQUAY
Postcode
TQ1 3DR
Postcode Area
Torquay
Country
England
Major Region (ITL 1)
TLK South West (England)
Basic Region (ITL 2)
TLK4 Devon
Small Region (ITL 3)
TLK42 Torbay
Delivery Location
TLK42 Torbay
Local Authority
Torbay
Electoral Ward
Tormohun
Westminster Constituency
Torbay

Further Information

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