Children’s Service - Seeking Children’s Views

The Scottish Government is seeking a Service Provider to provide a demand led service to engage with children (aged 12-15) to seek their views to support them to exercise their rights under the Education (Additional Support for Learning Act) 2004 (as amended) (the 2004 Act).

The expectation is that:

• the Service Provider will be required to put in place measures to ensure the service can be provided nationally.
• the Service Provider will seek the views of a child at the request of an education authority, the Additional Support Needs jurisdiction of the Health and Education Chamber of the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland (the Tribunal), a mediation provider, or independent adjudicator.

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.

SPD will be scored on a pass/fail basis.

Bidders must complete the SPD to demonstrate adherence to the Exclusion and Selection Criteria for this procurement.

The contract award criteria will be Quality 70% Price 30%.

Question Scoring Methodology for Award Criteria outlined in Invitation to Tender:

0 Unacceptable. Nil or inadequate response. Fails to demonstrate an ability to meet the requirement.

1 Poor. Response is partially relevant but generally poor. The response addresses some elements of the requirement but contains

insufficient/limited detail or explanation to demonstrate how the requirement will be fulfilled.

2 Acceptable. Response is relevant and acceptable. The response addresses a broad understanding of the requirement but may lack details

on how the requirement will be fulfilled in certain areas.

3 Good. Response is relevant and good. The response is sufficiently detailed to demonstrate a good understanding and provides details on

how the requirements will be fulfilled.

4 Excellent. Response is completely relevant and excellent overall.

Technical responses will be evaluated using the methodology detailed in the Evaluation and Award Criteria on a scoring basis of 0-4. For questions denoted ‘M’ tenderer's must achieve a minimum moderated average score of 2. If the moderated average score is less than ‘2’ for any of the questions marked ‘M’, the tender will not be subject to Price Analysis and a score of 0 (zero) will be awarded in respect of the Price Score. As a result, the tender will not be considered further.

It is mandatory that Tenderers hold or demonstrate ability to have in place prior to contract award, approved PVG scheme membership from Disclosure Scotland for all relevant staff.

Tenderers are also asked to confirm:

that they will pay staff that are involved in the delivery of services under the contract, at least the real Living Wage.

they will meet standards on payment of subcontractors

Tenderers who do not pass these questions will not be subject to Commercial Analysis. As a result the tender will not be considered further.

Bidders must complete the SPD (Scotland) to demonstrate adherence to the Exclusion and Selection Criteria for this procurement.

If there are named subcontractors/technicians upon which the bidder will rely to meet the selection criteria, these named parties must

complete and reattach the SPD Supplier Response Form attached to SPD.

The buyer is using PCS-Tender to conduct this ITT exercise. The Project code is 33115. 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/

The buyer is using PCS-Tender to conduct this ITT exercise. The Project code is 33115. 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:

Specific to this contract the Service Provider must consider as a minimum:

At least one training or knowledge sharing event per year of the Contract, including the optional extension year, to increase knowledge of children's rights in relation to additional support for learning i