Awarded without open competition
Awarded without open competition. The buyer went directly to one or a few suppliers instead of advertising the contract. Procurement rules allow this only in specific cases, such as extreme urgency, when only one supplier can do the work, or for call-offs from an existing framework.
Key facts
- Buyer
- London Borough of Lewisham · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- Change Grow Live (CGL)
- Value
- £41,309,988
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Rehabilitation services (CPV 85312500)
- Region
- London
- Official notice
- 094937-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date7 Oct 2026
- Published7 Oct 2026Published the same day
Description
The Service will place a particular emphasis on quality and meeting the needs of individuals with drug and alcohol needs, delivering a broad range of evidence based interventions tailored to risk, need and clear recovery goals. The Service will operate as a core component of the Lewisham Partnership System, working collaboratively with statutory, voluntary and community sector partners to ensure a consistent, recovery oriented approach is embedded across the borough. The key criteria that the GP's were submitting an application for are: 1. Quality and innovation 2. Value 3. Integration, collaboration, and service sustainability 4. Improving access, reducing health inequalities, and facilitating choice 5. Social Value Officers followed a robust evaluation against the above key criteria. A notice (2026/S 000-042096) was published informing the market of the opportunity.
About the supplier
Change Grow Live (CGL): every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 03861209).