--- title: "PUB26168 - Expression of Interest - Substance Use Peer Outreach Programme" ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-06e291" canonical_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-h6vhtk-06e291" markdown_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-06e291.md" json_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-06e291.json" source: "Find A Tender Service" current_stage: "Planning" buyer: "Torbay Council" published: "2026-08-12" --- # PUB26168 - Expression of Interest - Substance Use Peer Outreach Programme Buyer: Torbay Council Current stage: Planning OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-06e291 [View canonical contract page](https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-h6vhtk-06e291) [Download OCDS JSON](https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-06e291.json) ## Summary 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. ## Notice 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. ## Key Details | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication source | Find A Tender Service | | Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/076767-2026 | | 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 | | All stages | Planning | ## Dates | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication date | 12 Aug 2026 | | Submission deadline | Not specified | | Future notice date | 18 Sep 2026 | | Award date | Not specified | | Contract period | 16 Nov 2026 - 31 Mar 2028 | | Recurrence | Not specified | ## Values | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender value | £77,819 | | Lots value | Not specified | | Awards value | Not specified | | Contracts value | Not specified | ## Status | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender status | Planning | | Lots status | Planning | | Awards status | Not specified | | Contracts status | Not specified | ## Buyer | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Main buyer | Torbay Council | | Locality | TORQUAY | | Postcode area | Torquay | | Postcode | TQ1 3DR | | Country | England | | ITL 1 | TLK South West (England) | | ITL 2 | TLK4 Devon | | ITL 3 | TLK42 Torbay | | Local authority | Torbay | | Electoral ward | Tormohun | | Westminster constituency | Torbay | | Delivery location | TLK42 Torbay | ## CPV Codes ### Divisions - 85 - Health and social work services ### Codes - 85000000 - Health and social work services ## Release History - 12 Aug 2026 at 13:06 - Planning - UK2 - Preliminary Market Engagement Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/076767-2026 ## Documents - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/076767-2026 12th August 2026 - Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender ## Notice URLs - http://www.torbay.gov.uk/ - https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/54/contents ## Provenance This Markdown file is an alternate public rendering of the D3 Tenders contract record. 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