Notice Information
Notice Title
Living and Lived Experience Panel Facilitator
Notice Description
The City of Edinburgh Council (the Council), on behalf of the Edinburgh Alcohol and Drug Partnership, wishes to put in place a contract with a single Provider (an individual or organisation) who will facilitate a Lived-and-living-Experience Panel. The aim of this co-production will be to improve the quality of Drug and Alcohol recovery services by ensuring that they are informed by lived and living experience of substance use, service use and recovery
Lot Information
Lot 1
The Council is seeking to appoint a single Provider (Individual or Organisation) to deliver the specified service. An open procurement process will be followed where by the Single Procurement Document (SPD) will be utilised to identify suitable Tenderers in terms of compliance with the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015 and/or the Procurement (Scotland) Regulations 2016/PR(S)A14 and the minimum standards and any other requirements set out in the Tender documents & Contract Notice. Thereafter an Award Criteria and Pricing evaluation will be undertaken to select the tender which represent the best overall value for money.
Renewal: It is intended that the contract will be for a period of two years with the option to extend for a further two twelve-month periods, undertaken at the sole discretion of the Council. The contract value included in this notice is for the full potential 4 year contract period. The estimated contract value in this notice is for the full contract period including optional extensions.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-r6ebe6-0000823563
- Publication Source
- Public Contracts Scotland
- Latest Notice
- https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=FEB549569
- Current Stage
- Tender
- All Stages
- Tender
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- PCS Notice - Website Contract Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Open
- Procurement Method Details
- Open procedure
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- Not specified
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
85 - Health and social work services
98 - Other community, social and personal services
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- CPV Codes
85322000 - Community action programme
85323000 - Community health services
98000000 - Other community, social and personal services
98133100 - Civic betterment and community facility support services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £120,000 £100K-£500K
- Lots Value
- £120,000 £100K-£500K
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- Not specified
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 13 Feb 20261 weeks ago
- Submission Deadline
- 16 Mar 20263 weeks to go
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- Not specified
- Contract Period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Active
- Lots Status
- Active
- Awards Status
- Not Specified
- Contracts Status
- Not Specified
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- THE CITY OF EDINBURGH COUNCIL
- Contact Name
- Ife Sanni
- Contact Email
- ife.sanni@edinburgh.gov.uk
- Contact Phone
- +44 1314693922
Buyer Location
- Locality
- EDINBURGH
- Postcode
- EH8 8BG
- Post Town
- Edinburgh
- Country
- Scotland
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLM Scotland
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLM1 East Central Scotland
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLM13 City of Edinburgh
- Delivery Location
- TLM75 City of Edinburgh
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- Local Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Electoral Ward
- City Centre
- Westminster Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh
Further Information
Notice Documents
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https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=FEB549569
Living and Lived Experience Panel Facilitator - The City of Edinburgh Council (the Council), on behalf of the Edinburgh Alcohol and Drug Partnership, wishes to put in place a contract with a single Provider (an individual or organisation) who will facilitate a Lived-and-living-Experience Panel. The aim of this co-production will be to improve the quality of Drug and Alcohol recovery services by ensuring that they are informed by lived and living experience of substance use, service use and recovery
Notice URLs
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