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# Access to Counselling in Schools

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/access-to-counselling-in-schools-ocds-h6vhtk-03a398). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Renfrewshire Council: "Access to Counselling in Schools". Published status: complete. Published Value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 9 Mar 2023, 12:00 GMT. Published submission portal: www.publictendersscotland.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [Renfrewshire Council](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/renfrewshire-council-ons-s12000038)
- **Published Value:** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** 9 March 2023 at 12:00 GMT
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Open procedure
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Counselling services, Guidance and counselling services
- **Delivery Location:** UKM83
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **Awarded Value:** £1,247,000 (exc. VAT, 1 contract)
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-03a398`

## Before you bid
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- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/access-to-counselling-in-schools-ocds-h6vhtk-03a398#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [publictendersscotland.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.publictendersscotland.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk)
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/access-to-counselling-in-schools-ocds-h6vhtk-03a398#participate

## Description
Children’s Services is seeking a provider to deliver counselling services to improve the mental health and wellbeing and emotional resilience of children and young people who are negatively affected or are at risk of being affected by poor mental health.
This will be a universal counselling service accessible to children and young people in primary, secondary and ASN schools from Primary 1 to S6, predominantly delivered in a school setting.
Counsellor(s) (1.0 – 3.0 FTE counsellors per school depending on school roll) will be required in each of Renfrewshire’s 11 secondary schools and 1 ASN school to work with secondary school young people. In addition, a team of counsellors should be available to provide peripatetic counselling services across 50 primary schools, 1 ASN school and to parents/carers where appropriate.
It is expected that the provider will be flexible and responsive to local need as appropriate.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 85312300, 85312320
- **Delivery regions:** UKM

- **Description:** The Tender Procedure was conducted in accordance with an above Government Procurement Agreement (GPA) Threshold Open Tender procedure relating to a Services Contract.

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (1)
- **Award:** 020075-2023-RC-CPU-22-251-1 (active)

  - Supplier(s): **Therapeutic Counselling Services Ltd**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-48157`
  - Value: £1,247,000 † (exc. VAT)

> † value taken from the contract record; the award notice published none.

## Contracts (1)
- **Contract:** 020075-2023-RC-CPU-22-251-1 (active)
  - Signed Value: £1,247,000
  - Signed Date: 09/07/2023

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F020075-2023)
- **Last Source Update:** 2023-07-13T10:08:10.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-22T18:28:01.234Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-03a398