Official UK procurement notice
Provision of Post Incident Support Services
Authority: Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (Police & fire)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe provision of psychological support services for exposure to traumatic stress
- Recurrence: October 2024
CPV: Psychiatrist or psychologist services
How this framework works
From the published notice- Bids received
- 1 bids received · 1 suppliers appointed
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1Provision of Post Incident Support ServicesAwardedRenewalPublished value£750,000
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 (2)
- Service quality: 70%
- price: 30%
Published award criteria (2)
- Service quality: 70
- Price: 30
- Suitability
No complaints brought before the Health and Care Professions Tribunal upheld in the last five years
Candidates must demonstrate effective staff development and recruitment and retention policies which ensure that staff involved in the
delivery of such services hold the following qualifications at all times:
Psychological Therapist/Psychologist, registered with the appropriate professional body.
Psychiatrist, registered with the appropriate professional body.
All clinicians shall have accredited training in evidence based trauma therapies such as Cognitive Behaviours Therapy(CBT) and Eye
Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR)
They must also be subject to a check as required by The Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme
- Economic & financial standing
Insurance Levels
Accounting Ratios
Profitability
Minimum: Employers Liability 10000000 GBP Public Liability 10000000 GBP Professional Liability 5000000 Current Ratio: Current ratio must be greater than 1.0 for each year for the last three years. This will be assessed by the Contracting Authority by reference to an independent financial … - Technical & professional ability
Availability of appropriate staff
Successful experience of delivering services of this nature
Minimum: Candidates shall demonstrate how they ensure that appropriate staff are available at all times and for the provision of services at all locations in contracts of this size and nature Demonstration of three years continuous successful service provision in respect of these requirem…
- Staff
- Names and qualifications of delivery staff must be submitted
- Price carries 30 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 3 points. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.
- “Provision of Post Incident Support Services” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, 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
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Yes · October 2024
- First published
- 2 Nov 2021, 16:54 GMT
- Last source update
- 18 Dec 2025, 16:49 GMT
- Award evaluation window
- 22 Nov 2021 – …
- Authority reference
T3C-072-2122- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-084622- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-02ee7dFind a Tender
- Electronic trading
- e-invoicing allowed · electronic ordering · electronic payment
- Review procedure
The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS) must, by notice in writing as soon as possible after the decision has been made, inform all tenderers and candidates of its decision to award the contract, conclude the framework agreement or establish a dynamic purchasing system. The SFRS will incorporate a minimum 10 calendar day standstill at the point information on the contract award is communicated to tenderers. The SFRS is obliged to comply with the regulations and any eligible economic operator can bring an action in the Sherriff Court or the Court of Session where as a consequence of a breach by the SFRS, they suffer or risk suffering loss or damage. The bringing of court proceedings during the standstill period means that the SFRS must not enter into the contract, conclude the framework agreement or establish the dynamic purchasing 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.
Publisher note: (SC Ref:819086)
How it was run
Official notice- Appointment period ends
- 6 Dec 2021, 12:00 GMT
- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bid validity
- 90 days from the deadline
- Bids opened
- 22 Nov 2021, 12:00 GMT
Timeline
22 Nov 2021 → 18 Dec 2025 · 3 dates- Bids opened22 Nov 2021, 12:00 GMT
- Admission / appointment period endsperiod end, not a bid countdown6 Dec 2021, 12:00 GMT
- Notice published308 days ago18 Dec 2025, 16:49 GMT
Notice history
2 events · 4 releases on Find a Tender · since 2 Nov 2021- Deadline moved to 6 Dec 2021, 12:00 GMT2 Nov 2021, 16:54 GMT+14 days · was 22 Nov 2021, 12:00 GMT
- Status changed to complete4 Feb 2022, 09:54 GMT
Published amendments (1 · 1 deadline change)
| When | What | Before | After | Shift |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | DeadlineTime limit · IV.2.2 | 22 Nov 2021 | 6 Dec 2021 | +14 d |
| — | Bid openingConditions for opening of tenders · IV.2.7 | 22 Nov 2021 | 6 Dec 2021 | +14 d |
Replacement pricing and evaluation sheets have been issued. The deadline has been amended to allow tenderers to take into account the new demand profile, though tenderers must note that the figures quoted, whilst being reflective of previous demand, are not a prediction of future demand, do not represent any commitment on the part of the contracting authority, and are purely for the purposes of e…
Routine re-releases (4)
- 2021-11: 1 release · 2 Nov 2021
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast2 suppliers are admitted to this framework without individual award values or dates, see the supplier list below.
Contracts
Provision of Post Incident Support Services
- Signed
- 4 Feb 2022
- Value
- £792,500
- Status
- active
- Change Extension of the contract term of 5 months to allow new procurement exercise to be carried out and implemented., Need for additional works, services or supplies by the original contractor/concessionaire: Extension of the contract term of 5 months to allow new procurement exercise to be carried out and implemented.
Contract 003223-2022-T3C-072-2122-1
- Signed
- 17 Jan 2022
- Value
- £750,000
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1bids · 1 electronic · 1 from abroad | 0 | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- Glasgow Sheriff Court and Justice of the Peace CourtReview body
- Please refer to section VI.4.3Review body
Framework contractors & participating bidders
1 commercial party on the notice- Rivers Centre for Traumatic StressFramework contractor
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.