Find a TenderAwarded without competition

Published 13 Jan 2025, 15:50 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

Hosted Advocacy Services for Children and Young people

Official notice

Authority: NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHS & healthcare)

ServicesAward procedure without prior publication of a call for competitionSME suitable

Sectors: Health & Social Care (85) Delivery: Scotland (UKM82)

Awarded value£250,000published contract · exc. VAT

Awarded 30 Jan 2025no call for competition

Awarded to Partners in Advocacy2 awards

Re-procurement openRoyal Hospital for Children Money and Debt Advice Service · bids close 23 Nov 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde wish to appoint an independent advocacy service for children and young people who are being treated in Skye House and Ward 4 of the Royal Hospital for Children. This is a highly specialised service mandated by the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act. the service is usually non instructed and is governed by clearly defined principles and standards.

CPV: Health and social work services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published

Lot #1An Independent Advocacy Service for NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde's Specialist Childrens…

An Independent Advocacy Service for NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde's Specialist Childrens Services Hosted Services which include the West of Scotland Adolescent Inpatient Unit and The Child Inpatient Unit. The Service will be provided to the whole spectrum of mental health service users up to the age of 18 years and the diversity of the population including gender, ethnicity, age, disability (physical or otherwise) and sexuality.

Delivery: Scotland · Glasgow

Extensions: The tender includes the ability to add practices to the service enabling future flexibility if additional funding is made available. There is currently funding available for the service delivery as detailed in this Specification. If additional funding becomes available, the business will be awarded to the successful supplier without further competition.

85000000 Health and social work services

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record · publisher note attached

Procedure method: Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
Legal basis: CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
Procurement category: Services
Notice status: Awarded without competition
Procurement threshold: Unspecified in notice
Regulatory regime: Standard
Commercial structure: Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type: Direct award (no call for competition)
GPA / WTO covered: Yes (GPA)
Recurring procurement: Unspecified in notice
First published: 13 Jan 2025, 15:50 GMT
Last source update: 31 Jan 2025, 08:55 GMT
Authority reference: GGC0911
FTS notice number: 2025/S 000-003199
Classification (CPV): Health and social work services
Delivery area: Scotland (UKM82)
Official registry OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-04cf9c Find a Tender

Why no open competition: The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive
Published justification: Searches carried out with Scottish Independent Advocacy Alliance have confirmed that the current supplier is the sole provider for this type of service in West of Scotland. Competent suppliers are located in other areas of the UK but these tend to have a limited and specific geographical reach.
Previous tendering exercises have resulted in a single bid from this supplier.
This is a specialist service which requires indepth knowledge of the psychiatric inpatient setting in Glasgow. To achieve a comparable level of skill, suppliers would need to undertake extensive training over a considerable period of time which would result in disruption to the existing service- a transition period of a minimum of 12 months would be required.

Publisher note: (SC Ref:789294)

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast

Awards 2

Awarded value £250,0001 contract exc. VAT · 1 repeated publication of the same award counted once

Bids received 11 from SMEs

Contracts signed 2latest 30 Jan 2025

Awarded to	Value	Date	Status
Partners in AdvocacySME	£250,000 †same award published again · counted once	—	Awarded
Partners in AdvocacySME	£250,000 †	—	Awarded

Contracts

Contract 003199-2025-1 · Partners in AdvocacySME
Signed
30 Jan 2025
Value
£250,000
Status
active
Contract 001065-2025-GGC0911-1 · Partners in AdvocacySME
Signed
10 Jan 2025
Value
£250,000
Status
active

Bid statistics published by the authority

Bids	SME	VCSE	Valid bid range
1bids · 1 electronic · 1 from abroad	1	—	—

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde

Contracting authorityNHS & healthcareBody governed by public lawHealth Procurement Department, Glasgow Royal Infirmary, 84 Castle Street, Glasgow, Scotland, G4 0SFContact name, email

Dispute resolution & review bodies

.Glasgow Sheriff CourtReview body Glasgow

Bidders & participating suppliers

1 commercial party on the notice

Partners in AdvocacyAwarded supplier Strathclyde Business Centre, 120 Carstairs Street, Glasgow, UK, G40 4JDContact phone

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice.