Official UK procurement notice
Child Counselling in Education Establishments
Authority: Glasgow City Council (Local council)·Consortium: 2 public authorities
What is being bought4 lots · detail below
Published requirement descriptionGlasgow City Council invited tender bids to be part of a framework from suppliers with experience in delivering Counselling Services and other evidence based interventions to pupils aged 5-18 years within all mainstream primary and secondary schools across Glasgow and in secondary schools in West Dunbartonshire.
The provider(s) must:
- Improve children and young people’s mental health and be outcome focussed;
- Provide easy access to the service evidenced by referral numbers, accepted numbers and waiting times for intervention;
- Ensure children and young people receive the support they need in a structured way, working through a programme of care including outcome measures, goal-based outcomes and children’s plans,
- Ensure children and young people are receiving the right help at the right time,
- Foster strong relationship-based Interventions and care plans for children and young people,
- Ensure children and young people and carers are well informed of available supports and services and can access the supports with marketing information regarding the service being provided in appropriate formats and media via school setting.
The provider(s) must be able to provide the following management information during the contract:
- A set of case studies and quotes report based on qualitative data from actual referrals,
- A termly update report which provides a top line overview of programme activities and outcomes,
- End of year evaluation report, assessing the counselling outcomes and wider impact.
- Recurrence: This is a recurring procurement with the next framework renewal expected to be advertised late 2027.
CPV: Counselling services
How this framework works
From the published notice- Places
- up to 4 suppliers · 4 bids on the busiest of 4 lots (1.0 per place) · 3 appointed
Lots and requirements (4)Procurement structure
4 lots · no lot values published · same evaluation weights on every lotLot #1Secondary Schools - Counselling ServicesAwarded
Access to Counselling services for pupils within 30 mainstream secondary schools in Glasgow and in secondary schools in West Dunbartonshire in line with the information detailed in section II.1.4
Lot #2One to One Counselling - Primary SchoolsAwarded
Access to Counselling service (one to one) for Primary 1-7 pupils across the 141 Primary schools within Glasgow in line with the information detailed in section II.1.4
Lot #3Play Therapy - Primary SchoolsAwarded
Access to Play therapy for Primary 1-7 pupils across the 141 mainstream primary schools in Glasgow in line with the information detailed in in section II.1.4.
Lot #4Art Therapy - Primary SchoolsAwarded
Access to Art Therapy for Primary 1-7 pupils across the 141 mainstream primary schools in Glasgow in line with the information detailed in section II.1.4
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Published sub-criteria (10)
- Service Delivery: 15%
- Outcomes: 15%
- Partnership Activity: 6%
- Infrastructure: 15%
- Contract Implementation: 7%
- Monitoring and Evaluation: 15%
- Accessibility and Equality: 3%
- Business Continuity: 4%
- Fair Work First: 5%
- price: 15%
Published award criteria (10)
- Service Delivery: 15%
- Outcomes: 15%
- Partnership Activity: 6%
- Infrastructure: 15%
- Contract Implementation: 7%
- Monitoring and Evaluation: 15%
- Accessibility and Equality: 3%
- Business Continuity: 4%
- Fair Work First: 5%
- Price: 15
- Economic & financial standing
Financial Check
Minimum Insurance Requirements
Minimum: Bidders must comply with the undernoted financial requirements in order to participate in the tendering process:- There is a minimum financial requirement that affects balance sheet strength. Financial requirements for balance sheet strength should be calculated on latest filed …
- Price carries 15 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 1.5 points. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.
- “Child Counselling in Education Establishments” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, up to 4 suppliers, not a single contract.
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Awarded
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Framework agreement
- Who may use this agreement
- Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Yes · This is a recurring procurement with the next framework renewal expected to be advertised late 2027.
- First published
- 11 Oct 2024, 12:43 BST
- Last source update
- 7 Mar 2025, 10:58 GMT
- Award evaluation window
- 13 Nov 2024 – …
- Authority reference
GCC006200CPU- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-008315- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-04a808Find a Tender
- Electronic trading
- e-invoicing allowed · electronic ordering · electronic payment
- Review procedure
Glasgow City Council ("the council") must, by notice in writing as soon as possible after the decision has been made, inform all tenderers and candidates concerned of its decision to conclude the framework agreement. The council must allow a period of at least the relevant standstill period (where the notice is sent by facsimile or electronic means the period is 10 days ending at midnight at the end of the 10th day after that on which the last notice is sent, when sent by other means the period is 15 days) to elapse between the date of dispatch of the notice referred to in Regulation 85(1) of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015 ("The Regulations"). The council is obliged to comply with the regulations and any eligible economic operator can bring an action in the Sheriff Court or the Court of Session where as a consequence of a breach by the council, suffers or risks suffering loss or damage. The bringing of court proceedings during the standstill period means that the council must not conclude the framework agreement system unless the proceedings are determined, discontinued or disposed of: or the court, by interim order, brings to an end the prohibition. The bringing of court proceedings after the standstill period has elapsed and the remedies that are available to the courts are detailed in the Regulations. Economic operators can write to the council seeking further clarification on the notice, to which the council must respond within 15 days. Economic Operators should be mindful to seek their own independent legal advice when they consider appropriate to do so.
Publisher note: (SC Ref:792460)
How it was run
Official notice- Appointment period ends
- 21 Nov 2024, 12:00 GMT
- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bid validity
- 120 days from the deadline
- Bids opened
- 13 Nov 2024, 12:00 GMT
Timeline
13 Nov 2024 → 7 Mar 2025 · 3 dates- Bids opened13 Nov 2024, 12:00 GMT
- Admission / appointment period endsperiod end, not a bid countdown21 Nov 2024, 12:00 GMT
- Notice published7 Mar 2025, 10:58 GMT
Notice history
2 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 25 Oct 2024- Deadline moved to 21 Nov 2024, 12:00 GMT25 Oct 2024, 11:27 BST+8 days · was 13 Nov 2024, 12:00 GMT
- Status changed to complete7 Mar 2025, 10:58 GMT
Published amendments (1 · 1 deadline change)
| When | What | Before | After | Shift |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | DeadlineTime limit · IV.2.2 | 13 Nov 2024 | 21 Nov 2024 | +8 d |
| — | Bid openingConditions for opening of tenders · IV.2.7 | 13 Nov 2024 | 21 Nov 2024 | +8 d |
To allow sufficient time for Terms and Conditions to be fully reviewed by potential bidders
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast4 suppliers are admitted to this framework without individual award values or dates, see the supplier list below.
Contracts
All 3 of these contracts carry the same published figure, £1, the framework's maximum for the whole notice, not each contract's own value. They are not eleven separate sums.
Secondary Schools - Counselling Services
- Signed
- 18 Feb 2025
- Value
- £3,220,000
- Status
- active
One to One Counselling - Primary Schools
- Signed
- 18 Feb 2025
- Value
- ceiling above
- Status
- active
Play Therapy - Primary Schools
- Signed
- 18 Feb 2025
- Value
- ceiling above
- Status
- active
Art Therapy - Primary Schools
- Signed
- 18 Feb 2025
- Value
- ceiling above
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Lot | Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 · Secondary Schools - Counselling Services | 4bids · 4 electronic · 4 from abroad | 3 | — | — |
| 2 · One to One Counselling - Primary Schools | 4bids · 4 electronic · 4 from abroad | 2 | — | — |
| 3 · Play Therapy - Primary Schools | 2bids · 2 electronic · 2 from abroad | 1 | — | — |
| 4 · Art Therapy - Primary Schools | 4bids · 4 electronic · 4 from abroad | 3 | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
2 public bodies on the noticeConsortium members and other public bodies
- West Dunbartonshire CouncilContracting authority
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- Glasgow Sheriff Court and Justice of the Peace CourtReview body
Framework contractors & participating bidders
3 commercial parties on the notice- Impact Arts (Projects) LtdFramework contractor
- LifelinkFramework contractor
- With KidsFramework contractor
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Technical selection criteria