The Council are seeking offers from suitably licenced service providers to receive, treat and/or dispose of a number of resource streams with a view to managing them in accordance with the waste hierarchy.
The contract requirements are split into seven waste streams over twenty separate lots as detailed within ‘Kerbside & Recycling Centre Waste Streams Specification’ within the Invitation to Tender (ITT) and shown below.
The contract(s) will be awarded on lot basis, with the Tenderer being able to bid for one, any or all of the twenty lots without penalty.
1 - Fibres (mixed paper, card & cardboard) (Annan)
2 - Fibres (mixed paper, card & cardboard) (Stranraer)
3 - Fibres (mixed paper, card & cardboard) (Dumfries & Castle Douglas)
4 - Containers (metals, plastics & cartons) (Annan)
5 - Containers (metals, plastics & cartons) (Stranraer)
6 - Containers (metals, plastics & cartons) (Dumfries & Castle Douglas)
7 - Container Glass (Annan)
8 - Container Glass (Dumfries)
9 - Container Glass (Castle Douglas)
10 - Container Glass (Stranraer)
11 - Used Engine Oil
12 - Used Cooking Oil
13 - Scrap Metal (Annandale & Eskdale Area)
14 - Scrap Metal (Nithsdale Area)
15 - Scrap Metal (Stewartry Area)
16 - Scrap Metal (Wigtown Area)
17 - Lead Acid Batteries (e.g., car batteries) (Annandale & Eskdale Area)
18 - Lead Acid Batteries (e.g., car batteries) (Nithsdale Area)
19 - Lead Acid Batteries (e.g., car batteries) (Stewartry Area)
20 - Lead Acid Batteries (e.g., car batteries) (Wigtown Area)
Dumfries and Galloway Council has a legal statutory duty under Part II of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987 – Homelessness Provisions (as amended, substituted or supplemented from time to time) to provide temporary accommodation to people who are homeless. This opportunity is for the provision of self-contained suitable accommodation with housing support within the Dumfries & Galloway Region to enable the Purchaser to provide interim accommodation for adults (16+) experiencing homelessness and requiring access to support services to assist them in sustaining temporary accommodation and in the move on to more permanent accommodation. There will also be a requirement to provide a unit of accommodation for the purposes of providing out of hours emergency accommodation for those persons presenting as homeless out with normal office hours (i.e. 9am to 5pm Monday – Friday).
This contract is for the provision of accommodation with support services for women and children who are experiencing or have experienced domestic abuse and/or coercive control to assist them in sustaining temporary accommodation and moving to settled permanent accommodation.
The purpose is to provide women and their children:
- safe accommodation with support
- Housing support services
- Counselling
- Advocacy;
- Access to an out of hours emergency contact and advice service.
This service does not include outreach housing support.
This opportunity is for a Contract for the bulk haulage of up to five waste streams which involves the transport of waste materials both internally between various council sites and externally to various 3rd party waste treatment contractors as detailed in the Specification document.
This tender process is for participation in the Contract for a fully comprehensive contract to carry out Servicing and Maintenance of Boiler Plant within Council buildings throughout Dumfries and Galloway.
The services which may be carried out under this contract include:
- Gass and Oil Boiler Flues
- Air Handling
- Gas Taps
- Pressurisation Units
The Contract will be awarded on a Lot basis, with the Tenderer being able to bid for one, any or all of the four lots without penalty.
1 - Wigtownshire
2 - Stewartry
3 - Nithsdale
4 - Annandale & Eskdale
The New Build Dumfries High School is part of the overarching Dumfries Learning Town project which came into inception in 2013. This project is part of the second phase and sees a replacement school designed for a capacity for 936 pupils.
The school is currently partway through the construction stage and is scheduled for completion 10th April 2026 in readiness for school term commencing 13th April 2026.
Dumfries and Galloway Council wish to appoint a single supplier for all loose furniture items, appropriate for a secondary school setting, to allow the school to be operational on day one of opening.
Contract requirements
This tender process is for participation in the Contract for control of Legionella 2023-2026 and associated equipment in sites throughout
Dumfries and Galloway.
Works will include and not be restricted to the Control & Prevention of Legionella and HSG & ACOP.
The contractor shall ensure that Dumfries & Galloway Council are compliant at all times, however not restricted to both HSG274 and L8
ACOP and as a Condition of this Contract, the Contractor accepts the responsibility at all times to ensure Compliance is being upheld.
All works should be undertaken in a manner that promotes best practice by suitably qualified and competent person and in compliance with
BS 7671. All persons carrying out work during this contract must be suitably qualified and in possession of relevant current up to date
training certification and must submit copies of qualifications, training record, certificates of competence etc with their Tender submission.
The contractor is required to be fully trained, competent and experienced in the field of Legionella Control. Clear evidence of training and
competency must be submitted at tender stage within the returning procurement documentation and that training can be certified to
individual groups
Contractors will provide the provision of a Cloud Based Recording & Monitoring System (CBRMS) and client licences. The provision of
the facility to upload all previous information supplied by others (Incumbent Contractor) and not restricted to recording alterations,
adjustments, and monitoring of all works. To ensure compliance of Dumfries and Galloway Council.
Access to all sections of the (CBRMS) in line with the information stored so as to provide compliance shall be available through licences
for all stakeholders. All (CBRMS) costs and licences shall be within the returning rates of this document and at no extra cost whatsoever to
this contract.
The Contract will be let as one geographical area
There is attached a Schedule of Rates where individual prices shall be submitted in providing Dumfries and Galloway assurances that all
works shall be carried out under current Health and Safety Legislation.
Orders for this contract will be issued on one of four timescales, which must be adhered to, these being:-
A1 - Immediate
A2 - 2 Working Days
A3 – 7 working Days
A4 – 30 Days
Attendance under these timescales will be measured and used to Calculate KPI’s within this contact, which will be discussed at regular
progress meetings. Continued failure to attend within these timescales could result in a breach of contract.
Adult Carers will have access to a range of preventative approaches & supports that enable them to achieve & maintain optimum wellbeing, and be fully supported to continue in their caring role. Including:
-Preparation of Adult Carer Support Plans
-Information/advice including awareness raising of local/national Carers issues
-Individual/group support to Carers
-A range of short breaks
-Promotion of adult Carer involvement in providing views and feedback including direct representation for example. participation in local forums, social media
Young Carers will have access to a range of preventative approaches & supports that enable them to achieve & maintain optimum wellbeing, and be fully supported to continue in their caring role. Include:
-Preparation of Young Carer Statements
-Information/advice including awareness raising of local/national Carers issues
-Individual/group support to Young Carers
-A range of short breaks
-Promotion of Young Carer involvement in providing views and feedback
Adult Carers will have access to a range of preventative approaches & supports that enable them to achieve & maintain optimum wellbeing, and be fully supported to continue in their caring role. Including:
-Preparation of Adult Carer Support Plans
-Information/advice including awareness raising of local/national Carers issues
-Individual/group support to Carers
-A range of short breaks
-Promotion of adult Carer involvement in providing views and feedback including direct representation for example. participation in local forums, social media
Young Carers will have access to a range of preventative approaches & supports that enable them to achieve & maintain optimum wellbeing, and be fully supported to continue in their caring role. Include:
-Preparation of Young Carer Statements
-Information/advice including awareness raising of local/national Carers issues
-Individual/group support to Young Carers
-A range of short breaks
-Promotion of Young Carer involvement in providing views and feedback
Dumfries and Galloway require to purchase individual and collective advocacy services that are:
- independent and professional
- provide individual (one-to-one) advocacy that is issue focussed;
- provide collective advocacy that is focussed; and
- meet statutory requirements and Scottish Government priorities.
The Council has a statutory duty to make pre-school education available for eligible children under the Standards in Scotland’s Schools Act 2000. The Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 and Statutory Guidance set out the increased entitlement to 1140 hours for eligible children which became a statutory duty from August 2021.
The Funding Follows the Child approach places choice in parents’ and carers’ hands enabling them to access their child’s funded entitlement with a provider that best suits their needs.
All providers who apply and meet the expected standard, legislation and the Council's procedural requirements as set out in the Invitation to Tender and accept the rates and contract terms set out by the Council shall be accepted to deliver funded provision through the Flexible Framework enabling them to register children in 2025 to commence Brokerage placements from Q2 2025 and funded Early Learning and Childcare placements from August 2025.
This is the July 2025 re-opening of the framework.
If you have already been awarded a place on this framework, you do not need to re-apply.