Provision of A Physiotherapy and An Employee Counselling Service to Fife Council Employees & Associated Staff

All candidates must pass the SPD

4B1.1 - Tenderers are required to provide their annual turnover for their last two financial set of accounts.

4B.4 - The Current Ratio will be applied. Tenderers are to provide their current assets and current liabilities in relation to their audited published accounts for the last two years and to divide the current assets by the current liabilities figure. If a company does not have 2 years of audited published accounts an explanation should be given.

4B.5.1b - Insurance - Employer’s (Compulsory) Liability: Bidders are required to hold or commit to obtaining GBP 10,000,000 of Employer’s (Compulsory) Liability Insurance.

4B.5.2-Insurance-All other types listed: Bidders are required to hold or commit to obtaining, prior to the commencement of the contract, the levels of all other types of insurance cover indicated. The values of the policies must be as follows:

Employer’s Liability - 10 million GBP

Public Liability – 2.5 million GBP

Professional Negligence – 1 million GBP

Cyber Insurance - 5 million GBP

Data loss or breach- 5 million GBP

Physiotherapists must be qualified members of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, registered with the Health and Care Professions Council and preferably have experience/knowledge of occupations in a local authority context.

Details of the educational and professional qualifications of their managerial staff; and those of the person(s) who would be responsible for providing the services or carrying out the work or works under the contract;

There must be resilience for the successful provider to cover peaks of work and/or the absence (planned or unplanned) of their staff e.g. staff cover at the same qualification levels as the “core” staff covering the contract.

The successful provider will ensure that, if an employee specifically asks that an examination be completed by a practitioner of the same gender, the successful provider will be responsible for providing a suitable practitioner within one working week of the request being made and at no additional cost

Counsellors will have as a minimum a recognised counselling qualification.

The successful provider must be appropriately qualified and adhere to the Codes of Ethics and Practice of either COSCA (the Confederation of Scottish Counselling Agencies) or BACP (the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy). The provider must ensure that counsellors are suitably insured, and Fife Council is indemnified from any malpractice or public liability claims arising from this contract.

Psychologist (CBT) must be register…