Open competition
Open procedure: the contract was advertised and any supplier could submit a bid.
Key facts
- Buyer
- Aberdeenshire Council · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- Therapeutic Counselling Services Ltd SME
- Value
- £163,777
- Procedure
- Open procedure
- Sector
- Business services · Personnel-training services (CPV 79632000)
- Region
- Scotland
- Official notice
- 001983-2021 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date1 Feb 2021
- Published1 Feb 2021Published the same day
Description
The 2018-19 Programme for Government stated that around 350 new counsellor positions would be created in Scotland. Each local authority has been allocated funding to implement this. Aberdeenshire Council (the Council) has been unable to recruit enough qualified, accredited counsellors with appropriate experience of working with children and young people to meet this expectation. The Council will therefore recruit a combination of qualified School Counsellors and Trainee School Counsellors, the latter of which will be sponsored to undertake a diploma in counselling. The successful tenderer will be responsible for training and supervising trainee school counsellors (10) as well as supervising already qualified counsellors (2).
About the supplier
Therapeutic Counselling Services Ltd: every public contract they have won.