Official UK procurement notice
Community Harm Reduction and Recovery Initiation Services – Core Locality Hub Services
Authority: The City of Edinburgh Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Edinburgh Health and Social Care Partnership (EH&SCP), through the City of Edinburgh Council (the Council), wish to tender for the provision of a city-wide Community Harm Reduction and Recovery Initiation Service, delivered via local hubs throughout the City. The Service supports people over the age of 18 who encounter problems as a result of substance use or who are in recovery from substance use. The Service facilitates initiation of recovery and provides help to manage community harm related to the use of drugs and alcohol across the city. Please see the attached document 'CT1428 Specification' for further details relating to the requirement.
- How the procedure runs: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2015/446/contents
CPV: Health and social work services · Other community, social and personal services · Social work services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1The Council is seeking to appoint a single Provider (or a consortium of Providers with…
The Council is seeking to appoint a single Provider (or a consortium of Providers with an established Lead 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 Capacity evaluation will be undertaken to select the tender which represent the best overall value for money. Please see the attached documents for further detail on the intended process. Additional information: The potential contract duration is up to 7 years, broken down as follows:
Core Contract Period: four years
Optional Extension(1): three years
Extension options will be undertaken at the sole discretion of the Council/EH&SCP. The contract value referred to in this notice is for the full contract period including optional extensions.
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).
Please refer to the attached Invitation to Tenderers document for details relating to the award procedure.
No conditions of participation were published on the notice; check the tender documents.
- Shortlisting
- The Selection Criteria & Exclusion Grounds are included in the SPD & ITT, summarised as follows: SPD-IV-4B1a: General Yearly Turnover - minimum “general” annual turnover for the last two financial years GBP 4,719,384 SPD-IV-4B5ab&c: Employers Liability Insurance GBP 5,000,000, Public Liability Insurance GBP 10,000,000 & Professional Indemnity - GBP 5,000,000 SPD-IV-4B6: Current Ratio greater than 1.20 for the last two financial years SPD-IV-4C1.2: Technical and Professional Ability SPD-IV-4C4:Inclusion of prompt payment clause SPD-IV-4C7:Demonstration of response to climate change emergency SPD-IV-4D1(1):Health and Safety Policy SPD-IV-4D1(2):PVG/Disclosure Scotland checks SPD-IV-4D1(3):Payment of the Real Living Wage SPD-IV-4D1(4):UK Data Protection Legislation & ICO registration.
- Turnover usually expected at this size: about £4,715,693 (twice the annual value).
Turnover is an indicative market norm (≈2× annual value), not a published condition.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How The City of Edinburgh Council buys Health and social work services (CPV 85), and who usually turns up
The City of Edinburgh Council’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Health and social work services (CPV 85) →
How the contest usually goes
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How often small and medium firms win.
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Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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How often local firms win similar work.
Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.
Here, local means registered in Scotland.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in Scotland.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards were announced within 51 days of the bid deadline.
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How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.
Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.
The market share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
Direct awards or one recorded bid are common here. Check the route before spending time on a bid.
How many bids did past lots attract?
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How many bids past lots received.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid80% / 35%
2–320% / 39%
4–60% / 19%
7+0% / 6%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
Each colour shows awards below, close to or above the published estimate, one lot at a time.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Below estimate0% / 21%
Within ±2%78% / 65%
Above estimate22% / 14%
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
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Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list
Lot #1The Council is seeking to appoint a single Provider (or a consortium of Providers with…Published estimate£17m
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How many bids this lot may attract.
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Each lot shows its own forecast based on its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid37%
2–353%
4–69%
7+2%
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Where the award price may land.
The forecast uses similar awards and the buyer’s estimate. The band covers the middle half of likely prices.
Based on 180 comparable awards. Each lot reflects its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative.
A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.
Middle 50%£17m
Estimate£17m
Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
| Supplier | This buyer’s earlier contract | Lot | Award value | Why listed |
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| Simon Community ScotlandWorked for this buyer | Residential Intermediate Care for people with complex needs including physical healthcare needs and homelessness/ risk of homelessnessnotice published Oct 2025 | — | — | Similar wording and category |
Who could compete for this lot? i
Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
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Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
| Supplier | Won in this category | Live contracts | Award vs estimate |
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We Are With YouLarge | £87m25 awards in 36m · last this month | 1 live · £150k iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | at estimate n=7 |
Optima Health UK LtdLarge | £5.8m12 awards in 36m · last 2 months ago | 2 live · £1.7m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | 8% below n=5 |
Optima Health UK LtdLarge | £5.8m12 awards in 36m · last 2 months ago | 2 live · £1.7m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | 8% below n=5 |
| £5.9m4 awards in 36m · last 3 months ago | 1 live · £1.1m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | at estimate n=3 | |
LifelinkSME | £4.8m8 awards in 36m · last 4 months ago | 1 live · £1.5m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | at estimate n=2 |
About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
- Two views, kept apart. The authority’s own track record and the wider market for the same kind of work sit side by side and are never mixed. Where the local picture is too thin, a figure widens to a broader market and says which one it used.
- Forecasts are labelled. The price forecast and its range, possible competitors and the earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards: not published facts, not win chances and not price advice. Official notices do not say who is bidding.
- Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.
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
- Open for tender
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 30 Apr 2026, 15:36 BST
- Last source update
- 21 Sept 2026, 12:33 BST
- Authority reference
CT1428- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-089112- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-068f8cFind a Tender
- How it runs
- Electronic trading
- e-invoicing allowed · electronic ordering · electronic payment
- Review procedure
An economic operator that suffers or risks suffering loss or damage attributable to a breach of duty under Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015 may bring proceedings in the Sheriff Court or Court of Session. A claim for an ineffectiveness order must be made within 30 days of the Contract Award Notice being published in the Find a Tender Service or within 30 days of the date those who expressed an interest in or otherwise bid for the contract were informed of the conclusion of the contract or in any other case within 6 months from the date on which the contract was entered into.
Publisher note: It is considered that this requirement is covered under the light touch regime of Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015. Selection Criteria questions have been set out within the Single Procurement Document (SPD) and are also detailed further in appendix 3 of the Invitation to tenderers document. Tenderers who do not pass these questions will not be subject to Award Criteria Analysis and their tender will not be considered further. Bidders must complete the SPD (Scotland) as well as the Tenderers Submission document to demonstrate adherence to the Exclusion and Selection Criteria for this procurement. 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=843526. 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 The Contracting Authority does not intend to include any community benefit requirements in this contract for the following reason: Although the value of the contract exceeds GBP 4,000,000 it was deemed inappropriate to include community benefits in this instance considering: Potential Providers are third sector organisations/charities and the inclusion community benefits could detract from the Service that is being commissioned (already on a reduced budget) and; The Service is in itself is a benefit to the community. (SC Ref:843526) Download the ESPD document here: https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/ESPD/ESPD_Download.aspx?id=843526
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Submit via Public Contracts Scotland- Requests to participate (first stage)
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- Tender submission deadline
- 21 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
- Clarification deadline
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- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission"}
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
4 Jun 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 4 dates- Next notice expected138 days ago4 Jun 2026, 00:00 BST
- Notice published29 days ago21 Sept 2026, 12:33 BST
- Today20 Oct 2026
- Submission deadlinein 1 day21 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
- Contract startsin 163 days1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
4 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 21 Sept 2026- Published value published: £16,517,84421 Sept 2026, 12:33 BST
- Status changed to active21 Sept 2026, 12:33 BST
- Procurement method changed21 Sept 2026, 12:33 BST
- Deadline published: 21 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST21 Sept 2026, 12:33 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Nothing awarded yet- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- Edinburgh Sheriff CourtMediation bodyReview body
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice; the tender pack is on the portal.