Open competition
Open procedure: the contract was advertised and any supplier could submit a bid.
Key facts
- Buyer
- East Lothian Council · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- East Lothian Advice Consortium SME
- Value
- £1,843,950
- Procedure
- Open procedure
- Sector
- Community & personal services · Other community, social and personal services (CPV 98000000)
- Region
- Scotland
- Official notice
- 008886-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date7 Mar 2025
- Published12 Mar 2025Published 5 days after the contract date
Description
East Lothian Council require a provider to deliver advice services to East Lothian citizens. Services shall be delivered by appropriately trained, experienced staff and\or volunteers. Services shall be delivered in a readily accessible manner. The advice services shall be accessible to those people most in need and 'face to face' services shall be provided from appropriate locations within East Lothian. The services will also be available by telephone and digitally e.g. through web chat. Specific service outcomes include; providing advice to help maximise income; reducing the number of households in East Lothian currently in debt, or at risk of being in debt; improving access to the services through the provision of appropriate accessible face-to-face, phone and digital services. The contract duration will be for 3 years with the option to extend for a further 2 periods of 1 year.
About the supplier
East Lothian Advice Consortium: every public contract they have won.