Open competition
Open procedure: the contract was advertised and any supplier could submit a bid.
Key facts
- Buyer
- The City of Edinburgh Council · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- Simon Community Scotland SME
- Value
- £6,745,744
- Procedure
- Open procedure
- Sector
- Health & social care · Residential health facilities services (CPV 85144000)
- Region
- Scotland
- Official notice
- 069111-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date18 Sep 2025
- Published28 Oct 2025Published 40 days after the contract date
Description
The Council is seeking to appoint a single Provider (or a consortium of Providers with a Lead Organisation) to deliver the specified service. An open procurement process will be followed where by the Single Procurement Document (SPD) will be utilised to identify suitable Tenderers in terms of compliance with the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015 and/or the Procurement (Scotland) Regulations 2016/PR(S)A14 and the minimum standards and any other requirements set out in the Tender documents & Contract Notice. Thereafter an Award Criteria and Pricing evaluation will be undertaken to select the tender which represent the best overall value for money. Additional information: The potential contract duration is up to 8 years, broken down as follows: - Core Contract Period: three years - Optional Extension(1): three years - Optional Extension(2): two years Extension options will be undertaken at the sole discretion of the Council.
About the supplier
Simon Community Scotland: every public contract they have won.