The City of Edinburgh Council intends to establish a Framework Agreement for the purpose of transport by taxi, private hire car or coach for a range of transport services including home to school transport for pupils and transport for a range of vulnerable services users. This Framework Agreement will be divided into Lots to cover unescorted and escorted travel arrangements, mainly within the city of Edinburgh.
The City of Edinburgh Council is responsible for one of Scotland’s largest housebuilding programmes. Social rented homes are owned and managed by the Council as the landlord with factoring services currently provided to around 1,500 new build homes in mixed tenure estates.
The Council is reviewing the letting, management and maintenance requirements for these homes and other factoring services that may be required across the Council’s own new build homes being delivered on mixed-tenure sites and is therefore publishing this Prior Information Notice to notify the market of our upcoming opportunity and to give the market an opportunity to participate in finalising the Council’s procurement strategy and help shape the procurement process.
Potential bidders are invited to download the market research questionnaire and complete no later than Monday 20th June 2020. Those who submit a questionnaire may be invited to a dialogue session with the Project team to expand on their responses.
The City of Edinburgh Council (the Council) recognises the importance of supporting the inclusion of children and young people, from 0-18 years, with additional support needs in Care Inspectorate registered mainstream childcare settings which enables their parents/carers to continue or return to employment, training or education. The service works closely with a provider to build staff skills, knowledge and confidence to include children and young people with additional support needs in their setting. The purpose of this notice is to test the current and future market capacity to deliver an Inclusive Childcare and Support service for children with additional support needs accessing mainstream childcare settings in Edinburgh. TUPE may apply to this requirement.
The Edinburgh Health and Social Care Partnership (EHSCP) are looking to issue a contract for the delivery of post diagnostic support to adults with a range of neurodevelopmental disorders, predominately Autism and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).
The purpose of this PIN is to engage with the market to design a service which will meet the growing demand in a sustainable, outcome focused and viable way. It is intended that organisations will engage with EHSCP to develop the requirement.
All providers are invited to engage with this process to support a new contract which will be tendered. All future communication will be directed though this PIN and to ensure your organisations participation and updates on this process, you should note interest against this PIN.
The City of Edinburgh Council/ Edinburgh Health and Social Care Partnership are looking to understand the interest from organisations who are be able to offer:
1. Self-Directed Support (SDS) Advice and Information Service
2. Recruitment and Support Service of Personal Assistant/s (PAs)
Any future contract will be in keeping with the values, principles and legislative duties of the Social Care (Self-directed support) (Scotland) Act 2013.
The service will offer a high quality, accessible and inclusive service to adults (supported person) and children and their families assessed by the City of Edinburgh Council/EHSCP as having eligible social care needs.
The Service will empower the supported person to attain maximum independence, choice, control, inclusion and quality of life in line with the values and principles set out by the Scottish Government in their Self-Directed Support Strategy and in the Social Care (Self-directed Support) (Scotland) Act 2013. The term ‘Supported Person’ for the purpose of this contract follows the Definition under Sections 5, 7, and 8 of the Social Care (Self-Directed Support) (Scotland) Act 2013.
Edinburgh Health and Social Care Partnership (EHSCP) currently jointly commissions, with Children, Education and Justice Services (CEJS), a single coherent service providing holistic support to families affected by parental substance use.
The contract has been in place for 8 years and EHSCP and CEJS now wish to gauge interest in continuing provision. The need for the service remains however new guidance and policy including The Promise, Principles for Holistic Whole Family Support, Rights, Respect and Recovery (2018) and Families Affected by Drug and Alcohol use in Scotland (2021), have informed work to update the specification.
The Council has a requirement for a Multi-lot Framework Agreement for the provision of Furniture Removals and Storage, Design and Move Management.
Please note that the estimated framework value is subject to anticipated demand and the Council can not guarantee the volume of business.
The City of Edinburgh Council is seeking to create a Framework of providers in line with the National Improvement Framework for Education. The vision for education in Edinburgh is to ensure excellence by raising attainment and improving outcomes through Accredited Pathways and Certified Counsellors and Therapists: ensuring that every child and young person achieves the highest standards in literacy and numeracy, as well as the knowledge and skills necessary to shape their future as successful learners, confident individuals, responsible citizens, and effective contributors.
The City of Edinburgh Council will realise this vision by achieving equity: ensuring every child and young person has the same opportunity to succeed, regardless of their background, social circumstances, additional needs or shared protected characteristics, with a particular focus on closing the poverty related attainment gap, and improving mental health and wellbeing.
In order to achieve this, The City of Edinburgh Council will work to reduce the Poverty Related Attainment Gap (PRAG) through a transdisciplinary approach. Delivery of excellence will be achieved via the Edinburgh Imperative, which has four key themes to support reduction of the PRAG: Attendance, Literacy & Numeracy, Pathways, Health and Wellbeing.
Collaboration and relationship building with partner providers is a key theme to support young people’s outcomes being at the heart of everything we do. Partner Providers will support schools to provide a service which ensures pupils receive high quality education which meets their needs, delivers improved educational outcomes and avoids exclusion.
The City of Edinburgh Council are encouraging a ‘Place Based’ approach to services and supports to families and young people. The intention is to develop comprehensive supports that are within 20minutes of any identified need.
Background
The City of Edinburgh Council is committed to getting it right for every child. Our priorities include helping children to be active, healthy, and nurtured, improving achievement, and closing any gaps in attainment.
The City of Edinburgh is working alongside Providers to build a Framework which incorporates a range of accredited pathways and certified counselling and therapies, that will be accessible to all children and young people. This will incorporate their learning needs, their interests and aid inclusion.
Current Engagement
The City of Edinburgh Council purchases services from independent providers to achieve the above vision. An average of 124 different schools use these provisions every year. Edinburgh is committed to ensuring the highest quality service and best value from services which the Council purchases.
The City of Edinburgh Council (the Council) would like to engage with the market for experienced, providers with a local presence to deliver, an Independent Advocacy and Children’s Rights Service. This service will ensure the rights of children and young people who are looked after, are protected and they have the support they require to have their voices heard in matters which affect them. Please see the attached document titled 'CT1567 PIN notice' for further detail on the requirement.
The envisaged procurement will entail a concession contract which assumes responsibility for maintaining and expanding the existing public charging estate across the South of Scotland region.
The City of Edinburgh Council require a framework of designers, animators, strong copywriters and branding studios to create these promotional assets and aid with campaign and brand rollout and delivery.
The City of Edinburgh Council (the Council) has purchased the former Liberton Hospital site, located in the South East locality on the intersection of Lasswade Road and Ellen’s Glen Road, from NHS Lothian. The site is approximately 6.5 hectares (4.2 net developable area) in size.
The Council will shortly be preparing its procurement strategy to identify the most appropriate route to market for the delivery of this unique opportunity with the aim to provide integrated specialist accommodation (meeting the needs of the Edinburgh Health & Social Care Partnership) as well as affordable and private homes for sale, sustainable and active travel and achieving net zero ambitions.
The ambition for the development is to deliver a mixed-use development with around 380 homes, around half of which will be affordable homes aimed at providing a home with specialist support for older people or those with accessibility needs.
This Prior Information Notice (PIN) is an exciting opportunity for potential bidders to participate in finalising the Council’s procurement strategy and gain insight into the proposed development strategy. Potential bidders who are interested in this opportunity are invited to download the market research questionnaire and complete no later than 3 May 2023.
The Council are looking to renew their current contract for the routine planned maintenance of traffic equipment including electrical and mechanical inspection and replacement of consumables. Also, unplanned service including, response to and repair of equipment faults and emergency situations. The current contract also includes the provision of ancillary support works including provision, installation and commissioning of sundry traffic equipment and provision of civil engineering, construction and other services related to maintenance, modification and management of the Council’s traffic signal infrastructure.
Forever Edinburgh is The Official Visitor Guide to Edinburgh, promoting Edinburgh and providing inspiration and useful planning information to prospective inbound leisure visitors and residents.
The City of Edinburgh Council (the Council) requires a knowledgeable and experienced PR agency (Provider) to support Forever Edinburgh activities for the two initial campaigns and any future campaigns over the next two years with the option to extend for a further two 12-month periods undertaken at the sole discretion of the Council.
The Provider will be required to deliver and develop complementary PR plans with corporate communication support for Forever Edinburgh’s two initial destination-led campaigns; (1) Resident Rewards Edinburgh and (2) Leisure Tourism Proposition. However, over the life of this Contract, other campaigns may be identified.
Note: by submitting your interest you are agreeing to further engagement with the Council. This PIN is for market research purposes only, to determine if there are organisations with the capacity and capability to provide the Service.
The Council may decide to competitively tender this opportunity in the future.
The purpose of this notice is to inform the market of the intention of the City of Edinburgh Council (the “Council”) to tender a Services contract for the provision of "Door Drop" distribution services and lamppost wraps for the Communications Team.
The Councils aim is to appoint a distribution company to provide "Door Drop" services and erect lamppost wraps around the City to support campaigns and raise Citizen awareness of Council activities.
It is expected that the new contract shall operate from December 2024 for a period of three years with the option (at the Council’s discretion) to extend for a further two periods of one year each.
The City of Edinburgh Council has an approved fleet replacement programme that will see the replacement of approximately 1000 fleet vehicles over the next 2 years.
The requirement is to formalise a suitable contract for the auctioning and disposal of fleet assets going forward.
Interested parties should note their interest on this notice.
External service provision is required for an online mental health and wellbeing support service with counselling support desirable. This is for our children, young people and young adults (age 5-26) living in Edinburgh.