02020 Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) and Welfare Services to Scottish Central Government

Concepts

• counselling services
• glasgow
• edinburgh
• collaborative partners
• welfare services
• scottish central government
• employee assistance programme
• employee headcount
• information services
• provider of an employee assistance programme

Location

Scotland:

Description

SPS have led acollaborative procurement on behalf of a range of Scottish public bodies (circa 40 Collaborative Partners with an employee headcount circa 34,000) to secure a provider of an Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) and Welfare Services. The Services are intended to provide support to employees by providing access to confidential advisory and supportive interventions to deal with any personal/work related problems. Services include: telephone counselling, information services, advice for carers, service’s to management staff, face to face counselling sessions, and referral procedures. Additionally there is a requirement to provide Welfare Services to a number of the Collaborative Partners. The Welfare Service shall comprise of: crisis intervention, welfare services (including home visits) and advocacy (facilitating meetings on behalf of individuals both a support mechanism for staff and a management reporting function for Human Resource Business Partners.

Total Quantity or Scope

The SPS commenced this procurement process in good faith and with the intention of awarding a framework. Following publication of the Contract Notice, an Invitation to Tender (ITT) including the Single Procurement Document (Scotland) (SPD) was published by SPS and was made available to bidders on Public Contract Scotland-Tender (PCS-T). Tender responses were then evaluated by the SPS in accordance with the ITT

Award Detail

Award Criteria

CPV Codes

• 85312320 - Counselling services
• 85312400 - Welfare services not delivered through residential institutions

Other Information

** PREVIEW NOTICE, please check Find a Tender for full details. ** The Scottish Prison Service is contracting on behalf of Scottish Ministers to establish a framework which applies on behalf the Scottish Ministers (including Agencies), Scottish Non-Departmental Public Bodies, offices in the Scottish Administration which are not ministerial offices, cross-border public authorities within the meaning of section 88(5) of the Scotland Act 1998, the Scotland Office, the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body, special health boards, Advanced Procurement for Universities & Colleges (known as APUC in Scotland) and the affiliated Scottish Higher & Further Education (H&FE) sector, Forestry & Land Scotland, Scottish Futures Trust, Student Loans Company Ltd, the Commissioners of Northern Lighthouses, Business Stream Ltd, any public body established by or under the Scotland Act 1998 or any Act of the Scottish Parliament, any association of or formed by one or more of the above, bodies financed wholly or mainly by one or more of the above, bodies subject to management supervision by one or more of the above and bodies more than half of the board of directors or members of which, or, in the case of a group of individuals, more than half of those individuals, being appointed by one or more of the above. (SC Ref:730772)