Notice Information
Notice Title
Professional Confidential Counselling Service for Council Employees
Notice Description
North Lanarkshire Council is seeking to engage a professional and confidential service for employees
Lot Information
Lot 1
The Council is seeking supplier to provide a professional and confidential service (to include the provision of employer referrals and self-referrals) to fully support the wellbeing of our employees, this is to include physical wellbeing advice, financial wellbeing, psychological wellbeing support. . The services required include a helpline for general advice and guidance, psychological guidance and emotional support, individual counselling, either over the phone or face to face at the Providers premises, post critical incident support assistance for managers by offering a resource they can use in managing and assisting staff. . Tenders must be submitted for the full requirements; only tenders submitted on this basis will be considered. . Tenderers must respond to a range of Selection Questions within the PCS-T Qualification Envelope. . Tenderers must download and complete a range of Award based questions and statements located within the PCS-T Technical Envelope. . Tenderers must download and complete a Pricing Schedule that is located within the PCS-T Commercial Envelope. . The Contract must be carried out in accordance with the information provided within this Contract Notice and the documents contained within the PCS-T tendering system; Invitation to Tender (ITT) Document and the Council's Terms and Conditions of Contract. . The service shall be provided by professionally qualified and competent counselling practitioners who maintain membership of an appropriate professional body such as British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) or the Professional Body for Counselling and Psychotherapy in Scotland (COSCA).. PLEASE BE AWARE OF THE EXCLUSION GROUNDS. Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if they are in any of the situations referred to in regulation 8 and 9 of the Procurement (Scotland) Regulations 2016.
Renewal: Option to extend for a period of 6 months
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-r6ebe6-0000592753
- Publication Source
- Public Contracts Scotland
- Latest Notice
- https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=OCT369007
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Tender, Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- PCS Notice - Website Contract Award Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Open
- Procurement Method Details
- Open procedure
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- SME
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
85 - Health and social work services
-
- CPV Codes
85312300 - Guidance and counselling services
85312320 - Counselling services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £125,000 £100K-£500K
- Lots Value
- £125,000 £100K-£500K
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- £125,000 £100K-£500K
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 14 Oct 20196 years ago
- Submission Deadline
- 26 Sep 2019Expired
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 4 Oct 20196 years ago
- Contract Period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Complete
- Awards Status
- Not Specified
- Contracts Status
- Active
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- NORTH LANARKSHIRE COUNCIL
- Contact Name
- Lyn Longmuir
- Contact Email
- corporateprocurement@northlan.gov.uk, longmuirl@northlan.gov.uk
- Contact Phone
- +44 1236812209, +44 1698403876
Buyer Location
- Locality
- MOTHERWELL
- Postcode
- ML1 1AB
- Post Town
- Motherwell
- Country
- Scotland
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLM Scotland
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLM3 West Central Scotland
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLM34 North Lanarkshire
- Delivery Location
- TLM84 North Lanarkshire
-
- Local Authority
- North Lanarkshire
- Electoral Ward
- Motherwell South East and Ravenscraig
- Westminster Constituency
- Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke
Further Information
Notice Documents
-
https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=AUG364564
Professional Confidential Counselling Service for Council Employees - North Lanarkshire Council is seeking to engage a professional and confidential service for employees -
https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=OCT369007
Professional Confidential Counselling Service for Council Employees - North Lanarkshire Council is seeking to engage a professional and confidential service for employees
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
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