Information & Advice Service to Minority Ethnic Carers

Concepts

• health and social work
• edinburgh
• minority ethnic carers
• minority ethnic parents
• minority ethnic families
• advice service
• carers
• advice
• ethnic
• carer

Location

Edinburgh

Description

This service provides information, advice and peer support to minority ethnic families with children and young people who have a disability and who live in Edinburgh. The service will offer one-to-one case work and group sessions to those whose child or young person is aged from birth to school leaving age. The service may support the carer during the child’s transition from school leaving age for a period of up to 12 months.

Total Quantity or Scope

This is an open procedure for a support and advice service for Minority Ethnic parents/carers for their disabled children. The procedure will be assessed on SPD mandatory requirements, 70% Quality and 30% cost.

CPV Codes

• 85000000 - Health and social work services
• 85300000 - Social work and related services

Indicators

• Bids should cover the whole contract.

Other Information

All additional information is contained within the documents supplied for download. Please ensure that bidding organisations read all relevant information supplied. Tenderers are also asked to confirm that they will pay staff that are involved in the delivery of services under the contract, at least the real Living Wage. Tenderers are asked to confirm that they will include the standard clause in all contracts used in the delivery of the requirements, ensuring payment of sub-contractors at all stages of the supply chain within 30 days and include a point of contact for sub-contractors to refer to in the case of payment difficulties. This will require you to actively monitor payment performance and provide evidence and reports to the contracting authority on a regular basis. If you do not intend to use any sub-contractors, please answer N/A. Tenderers who do not pass these questions will not be subject to Commercial Analysis. As a result the tender will not be considered further. Bidders must complete the SPD (Scotland) to demonstrate adherence to the Exclusion and Selection Criteria for this procurement. Please note that TUPE may apply to this service. Please refer to TUPE note to Suppliers. NOTE: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the Public Contracts Scotland Web Site at https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=746902. The buyer has indicated that it will accept electronic responses to this notice via the Postbox facility. A user guide is available at https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/sitehelp/help_guides.aspx. Suppliers are advised to allow adequate time for uploading documents and to dispatch the electronic response well in advance of the closing time to avoid any last minute problems. A sub-contract clause has been included in this contract. For more information see: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/info/InfoCentre.aspx?ID=2363 Community benefits are included in this requirement. For more information see: https://www.gov.scot/policies/public-sector-procurement/community-benefits-in-pr... A summary of the expected community benefits has been provided as follows: There is a Community Benefit/added value question included within the Tenderers submission and this is also addressed within the Specification. (SC Ref:746902) Download the ESPD document here: https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/ESPD/ESPD_Download.aspx?id=746902