The City of Edinburgh Council intends to appoint 3 suitably qualified and experienced contractors to a framework for the provision and delivery of communal stair cleaning services and open access deck cleaning services, to approximately 2500 - 3000 blocks within the boundaries of the City of Edinburgh Council, the numbers are indicative and not guaranteed. Service users can be in Council properties, privately owned blocks or mixed tenure blocks.
The framework is expected to commence in July 2021 and will continue for a period of 2 years, with an optional further period of 2 years
Bidder should note TUPE may apply
The City of Edinburgh Council (on behalf of the Edinburgh Alcohol and Drugs Partnership), require a service for counselling and psychological therapies to aid the sustained recovery from Drugs and/or Alcohol use across the city. The service is also required in the local prison where the service is to support prisoners to recover for drug and/or alcohol use.
The City of Edinburgh Council is seeking a provider to deliver bereavement counselling and therapeutic age appropriate activities to bereaved children and young people.
The Partnership and Planning Team, as part of Homelessness Services is the lead team for commissioning homelessness and housing support services in the Council.
The service is aimed at people at risk of homelessness and towards independent living and self-sustainment. The course has a focus on basic cooking and skills.
The Council and NHS Lothian, through the EHSCP, have a statutory duty to provide access to independent advocacy services to people who meet the requirements of Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000, the Adult Support and Protection (Scotland) act 2007, the Carers (Scotland) Act 2016, The Children (Scotland) Act 1995 and the Mental Health (Care and Treatment)(Scotland) Act 2003. Section 259 of the 2003 Act sets out the main provisions for independent advocacy. Independent advocacy supports an advocacy partner's right to have their own voice heard in decisions made about their health and well-being. Independent advocacy enables vulnerable people to be heard and promotes social inclusion.
Independence is key in the advocacy partners right to advocacy, because it is vital that the role of independent advocacy is not compromised in any way. Independence ensures that the advocacy services provided are divorced from the interests of those persons concerned with the advocacy partner's care and welfare.
Independent advocacy services can only be provided by organisations who meet the requirements of the Scottish Independent Advocacy Alliance (SIAA) or equivalent. The SIAA define an independent advocacy organisation as “an organisation that only provides independent advocacy and all the activities it undertakes are about providing, promoting, supporting and defending independent advocacy. Independence means that it does not provide any other services and is structurally, financially and psychologically separate from other organisations and interests”.
Information about independent advocacy services will need to be communicated to advocacy partners in a way which each advocacy partners can understand, taking account of any special communication needs they may have. Such needs may arise, for example, where the advocacy partners is deaf or hard of hearing or has a visual impairment, a learning disability or where their first language is not English. n addition, any information provided in writing should be clear and in a style and language which can be easily understood by the individual advocacy partner.
The Service shall be predominately provided face to face to Advocacy Partners within the city of Edinburgh from either the office premises or in an agreed venue or space within the locality where the Advocacy Partner resides. If the Advocacy Partner is in a hospital ward, then the Service shall be delivered there.
The City of Edinburgh Council seek interest from suitably qualified care home operators for the provision of operational care home management and staffing. Currently the council has two 60 bed care homes which are strategically delivered through the Edinburgh Health and Social Care Partnership (EHSCP) delivering a range of dependency levels to older people. These are currently residential, nursing, dementia, specialist dementia and complex care.
EHSCP will assess and refer all potential residents to the service. The Provider will be expected to accept all residents assessed as suitable for the care home unless there are significant concerns around safety of existing residents.
The opportunity includes the leasing and maintenance of the building(s) and this lease is held with the Council.
It is anticipated the annual value of both contracts will be in the region of 4,700,000 GBP. Values are subject to change.
The City of Edinburgh Council are looking to procure a suitably qualified Care at Home service or Specialist Supported Accommodation service to provide the management of/ and supply of high-quality carers to support the care for an 18 year old young woman (E) who has a diagnosis of Autism, Hyperacusis, Mysophonia, OCD and can display challenging behaviour.
The City of Edinburgh Council are looking to procure a suitably qualified Care at Home service or Specialist Supported Accommodation service to provide the management of/ and supply of high quality carers to support the care for a 18 year old young person (G) who has a diagnosis of learning disability, autism and mood disorder and displays challenging behaviour. G is blind due to his self-injurious behaviours.
Construction of eight new-build affordable homes within the Wester Hailes area of Edinburgh. These homes are supported living accommodation for tenants, and consist of eight flats (2 wheelchair flats on ground floor), plus staff base. The development will be net-zero carbon. This opportunity may be of particular interest to small/medium sized housebuilders.
The City of Edinburgh Council intends to establish a series of 3 contracts for the delivery of specialist support workshops / training in respect of various Business Gateway services.
The City of Edinburgh Council in partnership with the Edinburgh Health and Social Care Partnership (EHSCP) is looking to establish a flexible purchasing system for Home Based Care and other associated services. This will be a long-term opportunity with the aim to work in partnership with providers to increase capacity for services under Self Directed Support (SDS) as per the Social Care (Self-directed Support) (Scotland) Act 2013. The EHSCP wishes to build community networks of support which will meet the changing requirements of Edinburgh Citizens. They require Home Based Care and associated services which are tailored to meet Edinburgh Citizen’s needs and can adapt by flexing capacity, whilst having a focus on sustainability, high standards of care, value for money and continuous improvement. The Flexible Purchasing system will be split into Categories and Sub-Categories (Lots), which are still in development, to cover the range of potential contracts which could be issued through the flexible purchasing system throughout the 10-year term. These may include: Category 1 - Home Based Care Re-design, Category 2 Individual Service Funds, Category 3 Specialised Services, Category 4 Associated Support Services. Due to the term of the opportunity, additional categories / sub-categories may be added in future, to reflect the Council’s requirements.
Applying to this system will provide the Council with a list of providers who have proven to have the required skill, knowledge, registrations etc to deliver the service, who could then be offered a contract as part of a Locality Partnership model with providers working together in the best interests of the individuals needing care. The aim of the Home-Based Care Re-design is to build upon networks and foster a culture of collaboration within a Locality model for adults and older people. This will enable data sharing between partners to understand our collective capacity, which will help us to enable growth with key partners and ensure efficient coverage across the city, allowing us to provide good quality of care which meets the needs of the individual within the City of Edinburgh. We want partners who will enable our vision to move from traditional "time and task" and work on the basis of what would improve the individuals’ life.
Edinburgh City Council have identified the need for a 3-dimensional (3D) laser scanning and modelling Service Provider. The service shall allow for the development of 3D “digital twins” of the Council’s operational properties, improving property data management. The service is required to scan buildings before converting them into Building Information Modelling (BIM) or plan outputs.
The Edinburgh Health and Social Care Partnership (EHSCP) require the provision of a Care and Repair Service within the City of Edinburgh boundary. The service will help older people and people with disabilities live independently in their own homes by providing small repairs and minor adaptations, a key-safe fitting service, a handyperson service, trade referrals and assistance with major adaptations.
Independent living is key to improving health and wellbeing and timely provision of equipment, repairs and minor adaptations can help vulnerable citizens live in their own home for as long as possible, avoid hospital admission and support hospital discharge. Enabling independent living is a key theme of the Edinburgh Integration Joint Board’s Strategic Plan and the provision of the care and repair service will help deliver on the following National Health and Wellbeing Outcomes:
Outcome 2: People, including those with disabilities or long-term conditions, or who are frail, are able to live, as far as reasonably practicable, independently and at home or in a homely setting in their community.
Outcome 3: People who use health and social care services have positive experiences of those services, and have their dignity respected.
Outcome 4: Health and social care services are centred on helping to maintain or improve the quality of life of people who use those services.
The City of Edinburgh Council currently own and operate a number of communal heating systems and small-scale heat networks throughout the city and is actively developing new local heat networks as part of its development plan in delivering affordable housing.
The council is seeking to appoint up to 5 organisations that can provide design development guidance and support in addition to operational, maintenance, metering and billing services for existing and new build housing developments that will be served by communal heating or local heat network systems under a Framework Agreement.
The City of Edinburgh Council is seeking to procure a suitably experienced service provider to deliver a lettings, management and maintenance services to domestic properties within Edinburgh for a period of 4 years with the option to extend for a further 3 years.