CE-176-23 - Funded Early Learning and Childcare Flexible Framework Agreement - Re-opening

Funded Early Learning and Childcare Flexible Framework Agreement - Re-opening

Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if they are in any of the situations referred to in regulation 58 of The Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015 or regulation 8 of The Procurement (Scotland) Regulations 2016 .

Assessment of Employment Status

Tenderers may be asked to declare whether they intend to provide services through a Personal Service Company (PSC). From April 2017, the responsibility to pay employment taxes shifts from the PSC to public sector bodies and the Council must be aware of any successful tenderer’s detailed employment status.

For further information on determining employment status the Government has published guidance on this IR35 Legislation

Subcontractor Detail

Tenderers may be required to provide details of the subcontractors they intend to use in their supply chain. Tenderers are required to complete this section as part of the SPD.

Data Protection

Tenderers must be aware of their obligations under the Data Protection Act 2018 as set out in the Contract documentation.

Charter Against Modern Slavery

The Council is committed to proactively vetting our supply chain to ensure no instances of modern slavery are taking place.

Section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 introduces a requirement for certain commercial organisations (with a turnover over 36M GBP) operating in the UK to produce an annual transparency statement, which sets out the steps the organisation has taken during the financial year to ensure that slavery and human trafficking is not taking place in any of its supply chains, or any part of its business.

Evidence for this requirement may be requested.

The buyer is using PCS-Tender to conduct this ITT exercise. The Project code is 25827. For more information see: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/info/InfoCentre.aspx?ID=2343

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:

Please refer to Procurement documents