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Drug and alcohol services contracts

UK public sector · 117 contracts awarded in the 12 months to 6 October 2026

Covering 600+ buyer portals · 5 years of records · Updated 6 October 2026 · How we count

Contracts awarded
117
Last 12 months
Median contract
£803k
Recorded value
Recorded value
£887m
97 of 106 main-service contracts have a published value
Buyers
66
Suppliers
178

BidSkim assigns contracts to services from the notice text. How services are assigned

What stands out

  • The five suppliers that won the most drug and alcohol services contracts took 33% of them (38 of 117).
  • Contracts awarded per quarter fell 41% from the first half of the period to the second.
  • The median contract, £803k, is 7.6 times the median across healthcare contracts (£106k).
  • Yorkshire and The Humber had the most contracts: 20, or 17% of the total.

Who buys drug and alcohol services

By contracts awarded, the 12 months to 6 October 2026.

  1. 1North Yorkshire Council8 contracts
  2. 2London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham5 contracts
  3. 3Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust5 contracts
  4. 4Somerset Council4 contracts
  5. 5Newcastle City Council4 contracts
  6. 6Devon County Council4 contracts
  7. 7Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council4 contracts
  8. 8London Borough of Hackney4 contracts
  9. 9Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust4 contracts
  10. 10East Sussex County Council3 contracts

Top drug and alcohol services contractors by contracts won

The 12 months to 6 October 2026.

  1. 1Change Grow Live17 contracts
  2. 2Turning Point8 contracts
  3. 3Waythrough7 contracts
  4. 4Via Community3 contracts
  5. 5Adferiad Recovery3 contracts
  6. 6Early Break3 contracts
  7. 7Barod Project2 contracts
  8. 8Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust2 contracts
  9. 9Humankind Charity2 contracts
  10. 10Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust2 contracts

Latest and largest awards

Each links to the official notice.

Latest

Largest

Contracts awarded by quarter

22Q4 2025*39Q1 202633Q2 202623Q3 20260Q4 2026*
* part quarter

Where the contracts were awarded

England 110 · Wales 5 · Scotland 2

Yorkshire and The Humber20North East16London15South West14South East11North West9East of England8West Midlands5Wales5East Midlands3Scotland2UK-wide or not stated9

What is included

Community substance misuse treatment and recovery for adults and young people: assessment, prescribing, psychosocial interventions, shared care, needle exchange and supervised consumption, hospital liaison, early intervention and outreach.

  • Integrated drug and alcohol treatment and recovery services
  • Opiate substitution and shared care in primary care
  • Needle and syringe exchange and supervised consumption
  • Hospital alcohol and drug liaison funded by councils
  • Brief interventions for probation clients
  • Early intervention and relapse prevention
  • Young people's substance misuse treatment
  • Outreach and early intervention for young people
  • Lived experience recovery organisations and recovery infrastructure providing peer-led, non-clinical recovery support

What is not included

  • Inpatient detoxification and residential rehabilitation (hlt.comm.residential-rehab-inpatient-detox)
  • Recovery housing, recovery hubs and peer-led recovery communities (another industry: social-care)
  • Prison substance misuse clinical services (hlt.justice.prison-detention-healthcare)
  • Naloxone and harm reduction supplies (hlt.pharm.naloxone-harm-reduction)
  • Drug and alcohol testing of individuals (hlt.diag.drug-alcohol-testing-individuals)

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