--- title: "PKC13156 - Community Integration Resettlement Support" ocid: "ocds-r6ebe6-0000787274" canonical_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-r6ebe6-0000787274" markdown_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-r6ebe6-0000787274.md" json_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-r6ebe6-0000787274.json" source: "Public Contracts Scotland" current_stage: "Planning" buyer: "PERTH & KINROSS COUNCIL" published: "2025-01-09" --- # PKC13156 - Community Integration Resettlement Support Buyer: PERTH & KINROSS COUNCIL Current stage: Planning OCID: ocds-r6ebe6-0000787274 [View canonical contract page](https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-r6ebe6-0000787274) [Download OCDS JSON](https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-r6ebe6-0000787274.json) ## Summary Perth & Kinross Council is initiating a contract titled "PKC13156 - Community Integration Resettlement Support," focused on assisting individuals and families during their resettlement journey to integrate into local communities. This procurement, currently in the planning stage, targets the services category and is central to supporting the "City of Sanctuary" status recently awarded to Perth. The planning notice, dated 9th January 2025, sets 24th January 2025, 12:00 PM, as the deadline for service providers to register their interest. This project involves a comprehensive service area in Perth & Kinross, Scotland, with an expected value of GBP 250,000 and covers a wide range of support services, including community engagement, mental health support, and language assistance. This tender offers significant opportunities for businesses specialising in social services, particularly those with expertise in refugee resettlement and integration support. It calls for companies that can provide multilingual services, have flexible working hours, and offer expert advice on immigration-related issues. Businesses that can effectively engage with local communities and connect with national strategies such as the New Scots Strategy will find this tender particularly fitting. Providing these services can not only contribute to successful resettlement initiatives but also elevate the service provider's status and expand their market reach within the public sector. ## Notice The primary objective of this contract is to support individuals and families throughout their resettlement journey to integrate with local communities and cultures. Individuals should be signposted to the relevant services and information, and provided with the support they need to be able to use these services independently, and increase their awareness of the support available to them from within the community. Support individuals to establish social contacts and to attend appointments and courses - for example, join a local interest group, attend ESOL classes, go to GP and dentist appointments, register with Job Centre Plus and to support individuals and families to access mental health and trauma informed support networks as appropriate. It is expected that the successful provider will engage with service users to become active residents of Perth & Kinross, to connect to a supportive community and to use their skills to enrich the communities in which they live. Individuals should be encouraged to use their developing English language skills in social settings and in their engagement with the wider community. Individuals should be supported to ensure an appropriate understanding of laws and rights and any concerns relating to child protection or safeguarding issues should be appropriately reported ### Lot Information Lot 1 Perth was recently awarded "City of Sanctuary" status and requires a comprehensive integration and resettlement service to support refugees to resettle in the Perth & Kinross Council area. The service will be available on a flexible basis which may require staff to work evenings and weekends, be available at short notice, and be willing to travel throughout Perth & Kinross. Interpretation and translation services will be required including but not limited to Dari, Pashto, Ukrainian, Russian languages. A dedicated telephone helpline will be available during office hours, with an answering service for calls received outside of office hours. For the avoidance of doubt, office hours will be Monday to Friday between the hours of 09:00 to 17:00. It is expected that this helpline should be able to provide multilingual advice on a range of refugee and asylum issues. Regular contact with Perth & Kinross Council will be maintained, which will include attendance at meetings and multi-agency working groups as required. Relevant staff will be appropriately qualified, skilled, trained and experienced in working with the service user group. The provider should be able to provide expert advice to Perth & Kinross Council and other partners on immigration and refugee related issues, including but not limited to family reunification, asylum matters, visas and irregular immigration status. All staff must undergo a satisfactory Enhanced Disclosure Check and register with the Protection of Vulnerable Groups scheme prior to any contact with service users. The service will deliver up to 1456 hours of direct support per annum to relocated individuals/families during the contract. This is based on a 0.8FTE support worker working 28 hours per week (0.8FTE). The Provider and their staff will be knowledgeable about the UK resettlement schemes and other such national initiatives involving the service user group. The provider is expected to be experienced in connecting communities with refugee supporting groups and engaging with national strategy development such as the New Scots Strategy. The Provider and their staff will be aware of the responsibilities of different government bodies, including local authorities, in relation to the service user group.. Perth and Kinross Council are seeking to carry out market research to identify service providers capable of offering the specialist integration support required to enable refugees to resettle in Perth and Kinross. Service Providers should register their interest no later than 1200 on Friday 24 January 2025. ## Key Details | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication source | Public Contracts Scotland | | Latest notice | https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=JAN521455 | | Notice type | PCS Notice - Website Prior Information Notice | | Procurement type | Standard | | Procurement category | Services | | Procurement method | Not Specified | | Procurement method details | Not specified | | Tender suitability | Not specified | | Awardee scale | Not specified | | All stages | Planning | ## Dates | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication date | 9 Jan 2025 | | Submission deadline | Not specified | | Future notice date | 31 Jan 2025 | | Award date | Not specified | | Contract period | Not specified | | Recurrence | Not specified | ## Values | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender value | £250,000 | | Lots value | Not specified | | Awards value | Not specified | | Contracts value | Not specified | ## Status | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender status | Planned | | Lots status | Planned | | Awards status | Not specified | | Contracts status | Not specified | ## Buyer | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Main buyer | PERTH & KINROSS COUNCIL | | Locality | PERTH | | Post town | Perth | | Postcode | PH1 5PH | | Country | Scotland | | ITL 1 | TLM Scotland | | ITL 2 | TLM0 Eastern Scotland | | ITL 3 | TLM02 Perth and Kinross, and Stirling | | Local authority | Perth and Kinross | | Electoral ward | Perth City Centre | | Westminster constituency | Perth and Kinross-shire | | Delivery location | TLM77 Perth and Kinross, and Stirling | ## CPV Codes ### Divisions - 79 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security ### Codes - 79411000 - General management consultancy services ## Release History - 9 Jan 2025 at 00:00 - Planning - PCS Notice - Website Prior Information Notice - https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=JAN521455 ## Documents - https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=JAN521455 PKC13156 - Community Integration Resettlement Support - The primary objective of this contract is to support individuals and families throughout their resettlement journey to integrate with local communities and cultures. Individuals should be signposted to the relevant services and information, and provided with the support they need to be able to use these services independently, and increase their awareness of the support available to them from within the community. Support individuals to establish social contacts and to attend appointments and courses - for example, join a local interest group, attend ESOL classes, go to GP and dentist appointments, register with Job Centre Plus and to support individuals and families to access mental health and trauma informed support networks as appropriate. It is expected that the successful provider will engage with service users to become active residents of Perth & Kinross, to connect to a supportive community and to use their skills to enrich the communities in which they live. Individuals should be encouraged to use their developing English language skills in social settings and in their engagement with the wider community. Individuals should be supported to ensure an appropriate understanding of laws and rights and any concerns relating to child protection or safeguarding issues should be appropriately reported ## Notice URLs - http:// - http://www.pkc.gov.uk - https://api.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/v1/Notice?id=ocds-r6ebe6-0000787274 - https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=787274 ## Provenance This Markdown file is an alternate public rendering of the D3 Tenders contract record. The canonical page is https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-r6ebe6-0000787274. The underlying structured data is available as OCDS JSON at https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-r6ebe6-0000787274.json.