Child Counselling in Education Establishments

Glasgow City Council invites 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.

Bidders must hold certificates for Quality Assurance and Environmental Management Standards or comply with all questions noted in SPD

Section 4D.

Freedom of Information Act — Information on the FOI Act is contained in Appendix A of the ITT. Tenderers must note the implications of this legislation and ensure that any information they wish the council to consider withholding is specifically indicated on the FOI certificate contained in the Technical Envelope within the PCS Tender portal (NB the council does not bind itself to withhold this information).

Tenderers Amendments — Tenderers must enter any clause, condition, amendment to specification or any other qualification they may wish to make conditional to this offer. Bidders will be required to complete the tenderers amendment certificate that is contained within the Technical Envelope within PCS Tender portal.

Prompt Payment — The successful tenderer shall, as a condition of being awarded the tender, be required to demonstrate to the council's satisfaction that all funds due to the tenderer's permitted sub-contractors in respect of these works are paid timeously and that as a minimum invoices rendered by subcontractors shall (unless formally disputed by the tenderer) be paid within 30 days of receipt. The successful tenderer shall also impose this condition on its sub-contractors in respect of payments due to any sub-sub-contractors, if any. Tenderers will be required to complete the prompt payment certificate contained in the Technical Envelope within PCS Tender portal.

Non Collusion — Tenderers will be required to complete the Non Collusion certificate contained in the Technical Envelope within the PCS Tender portal.

Insurance Mandate - All successful suppliers will be required to sign an Insurance Mandate, contained in the Technical Envelope within the PCS Tender portal authorising the Council to request copies of insurance documents from the supplier’s insurance provider. If the mandate is not signed and returned the Council reserves the right to request copies of insurance certificates from suppliers at any point during the contract period.

Terms and Conditions are located within the buyers attachments area within the PCS Tender portal.

Additional information pertaining to this contract notice is contained in the Invitation to Tender situated within the buyers attachments area of PCS-T. Tenderers must ensure they read these documents in line with this contract notice.

The buyer is using PCS-Tender to conduct this ITT exercise. The Project code is 27554. For more information see: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/info/InfoCentre.aspx?ID=2343

A sub-contract clause has been included in this contract. For more information see: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/info/InfoCentre.aspx?ID=2363

Community benefits are included in this requirement. For more information see: https://www.gov.scot/policies/public-sector-procurement/community-benefits-in-procurement/

A summary of the expected community benefits has been provided as follows:

All lots

Community benefit outcomes for these lots will be based on spend thresholds. There are five spend thresholds within the Community

Benefits menu ranging from 50,000 GBP to 5,000,000 GBP.

Spend will be monitored and successful suppliers will be required to deliver the outcomes offered under the appropriate threshold(s). Further detail is available with the Invitation to Tender document.