CT0983 - Adult Counselling and Psychological Therapies

Concepts

• health and social work
• edinburgh
• city of edinburgh council
• edinburgh alcohol and drugs partnership
• counselling & psychotherapy
• counselling interventions
• adult counselling
• therapies
• psychological therapies
• edinburgh alcohol and drug partnership

Location

City of Edinburgh

Description

The City of Edinburgh Council (on behalf of the Edinburgh Alcohol and Drugs Partnership), require a service for counselling and psychological therapies to aid the sustained recovery from Drugs and/or Alcohol use across the city. The service is also required in the local prison where the service is to support prisoners to recover for drug and/or alcohol use.

Total Quantity or Scope

The Edinburgh Alcohol and Drug Partnership (EADP) require a service to: Provide integrated counselling interventions which incorporate evidence based psychosocial interventions and therapies. These will be delivered within boundaried, therapeutic relationships and informed by an understanding of attachment, trauma and the process of recovery from addiction; Provide demonstrably high quality and effective interventions within the professional governance structure of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP)/ Counselling & Psychotherapy in Scotland (COSCA) or equivalent. Have a very strong, specific understanding of recovery from the misuse of alcohol, of psycho-stimulants and of other drugs. And have organisational expertise in relation to each of these areas of need to contribute to the strategic development of the system of care. Be able to provide additional non counselling interventions to complement the primary 1:1 interventions. Deliver services from an easily accessible location in central Edinburgh and across the local areas of the city and within HM Prison Edinburgh. Online services should also be a component of the service. Be demonstrably high quality and effective organisation (or organisations), able to contribute to the development of the local recovery orientated system of care as well as delivering a service.

CPV Codes

• 85000000 - Health and social work services

Indicators

• Bids should cover the whole contract.

Other Information

This opportunity is open to single organisations or partnerships / consortia. The buyer is using PCS-Tender to conduct this ITT exercise. The Project code is 21028. 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-pr... A summary of the expected community benefits has been provided as follows: Details of the types of community benefits being sought are contained in the ITT. The type and level of benefits will be in direct relation to the value of the contract and the Service Provider will be asked to submit Community Benefits response indicating the types of Community Benefits they will deliver as part of the tender evaluation process. Service Providers will be expected to utilise the City of Edinburgh Council’s community benefit tracking system CENEFITS. (SC Ref:689832)