Awarded contract

Creative Placemaking Flexible Framework

Details

Value
£2,000,000
Topic
Provision of services to the community
Published
22 April 2024

Tender description

Creative placemaking is defined as support to community-led engagement which incorporates creative activity to facilitate positive change for people and the places they live. Dumfries and Galloway Council are looking to establish a framework for creative placemaking providers to enable a compliant route to appointing services to support communities to engage local people over a range of topics. Lot 1: Creative Placemaking - Annandale & Eskdale The framework will cover the following (not exclusive to): - Work at the instruction of Local Place Teams, the Place Planning Partnership and wider Communities and Economy & Development services regarding when and where interventions are required. - As requested, provide hands- on support to communities expressing an interest in developing plans, programmes, and projects, specifically support to creatively engage with their local community, in particular those that are marginalised and/ or harder- to- reach. - As requested, build communities’ capacity to use a range of creative engagement techniques, including those suitable for children and young people. - As requested, informing the development of strategy, e.g., a place plan, a masterplan, inputting to the preparation of feasibility studies, options appraisals, project and business cases. - Collect evaluative outcome evidence and case studies regarding the success of creative placemaking interventions with communities. - Report evaluative evidence to the Council and partners as appropriate. - Assist partners to understand the value of and consider creative placemaking when communities are finding engagement challenging. Lot 2: Creative Placemaking - Nithsdale The framework will cover the following (not exclusive to): - Work at the instruction of Local Place Teams, the Place Planning Partnership and wider Communities and Economy & Development services regarding when and where interventions are required. - As requested, provide hands- on support to communities expressing an interest in developing plans, programmes, and projects, specifically support to creatively engage with their local community, in particular those that are marginalised and/ or harder- to- reach. - As requested, build communities’ capacity to use a range of creative engagement techniques, including those suitable for children and young people. - As requested, informing the development of strategy, e.g., a place plan, a masterplan, inputting to the preparation of feasibility studies, options appraisals, project and business cases. - Collect evaluative outcome evidence and case studies regarding the success of creative placemaking interventions with communities. - Report evaluative evidence to the Council and partners as appropriate. - Assist partners to understand the value of and consider creative placemaking when communities are finding engagement challenging. Lot 3: Creative Placemaking - Stewartry The framework will cover the following (not exclusive to): - Work at the instruction of Local Place Teams, the Place Planning Partnership and wider Communities and Economy & Development services regarding when and where interventions are required. - As requested, provide hands- on support to communities expressing an interest in developing plans, programmes, and projects, specifically support to creatively engage with their local community, in particular those that are marginalised and/ or harder- to- reach. - As requested, build communities’ capacity to use a range of creative engagement techniques, including those suitable for children and young people. - As requested, informing the development of strategy, e.g., a place plan, a masterplan, inputting to the preparation of feasibility studies, options appraisals, project and business cases. - Collect evaluative outcome evidence and case studies regarding the success of creative placemaking interventions with communities. - Report evaluative evidence to the Council and partners as appropriate. - Assist partners to understand the value of and consider creative placemaking when communities are finding engagement challenging. Lot 4: Creative Placemaking - Wigtownshire The framework will cover the following (not exclusive to): - Work at the instruction of Local Place Teams, the Place Planning Partnership and wider Communities and Economy & Development services regarding when and where interventions are required. - As requested, provide hands- on support to communities expressing an interest in developing plans, programmes, and projects, specifically support to creatively engage with their local community, in particular those that are marginalised and/ or harder- to- reach. - As requested, build communities’ capacity to use a range of creative engagement techniques, including those suitable for children and young people. - As requested, informing the development of strategy, e.g., a place plan, a masterplan, inputting to the preparation of feasibility studies, options appraisals, project and business cases. - Collect evaluative outcome evidence and case studies regarding the success of creative placemaking interventions with communities. - Report evaluative evidence to the Council and partners as appropriate. - Assist partners to understand the value of and consider creative placemaking when communities are finding engagement challenging.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Award published22 April 2024
    Current notice
  2. Completed: Award date2 August 2024

About the buyer

Dumfries and Galloway Council is the local authority for the Dumfries and Galloway region in south-west Scotland. Tenders are advertised through Public Contracts Scotland, the national portal used by public bodies across Scotland. Larger contracts often route through Scotland Excel framework agreements, the collaborative procurement body owned by Scottish councils. A dedicated procurement team operates from Carruthers House in Dumfries, the council's headquarters. Low-value, low-risk work goes out as direct quotes rather than full tenders, a route aimed at small, local suppliers. Annual procurement performance is reported under the Procurement Reform (Scotland) Act 2014.

UK local government drives £140bn in annual procurement, led by social protection (£66.6bn) and education (£57.1bn).

Over the past 5 years, most of Dumfries and Galloway Council's contract awards have been in health and social work, construction work and repair and maintenance.

Relevant CPV codes

  • 75200000 · Provision of services to the community
  • 98000000 · Other community, social and personal services

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