Awarded contract

School Age Childcare Programme - Digital and Design Approach

Details

Buyer: Scottish Government
Supplier(s): Sopra Steria Limited
Value: £59,000
Topic: IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
Published: 1 March 2024
Source: uk:public_contracts_scotland

Tender description

The Scottish Government has a requirement to support a futures-thinking project for the School Age Childcare Programme of the Directorate for Children and Families. The purpose of the School Age Childcare programme is to “build a system of school age childcare by the end of this Parliament, providing care before and after school, all year round, supporting parents and carers – particularly on low incomes – to have secure and stable employment. Those on the lowest incomes will pay nothing.” Within this Programme, the Digital Service project has been initiated to support part of the activity set out in the Scottish Government’s 2023/24 Programme for Government. Contract Award Notice for Call-Off from CCS GCloud 13.

Timeline

Completed: Award date29 February 2024
Completed: Award published1 March 2024
Current notice

About the buyer

The Scottish Government is a devolved central government department that buys through its Scottish Procurement and Property Directorate. Regulated procurements across the Scottish public sector are advertised on Public Contracts Scotland, the national portal set up in 2008. Bids are usually submitted through PCS-Tender, the national eTendering system it funds. The directorate also runs frameworks covering construction, corporate services, ICT, professional services, utilities and HR. Many of these frameworks are open to the wider Scottish public sector as well as central government. The Supplier Development Programme offers free tender training to SMEs and third sector organisations.

Procurement spend from central entities makes up 66% of overall UK public spend.

Over the past 5 years, most of the Scottish Government's contract awards have been in business services, IT services and research and development.

Relevant CPV codes

72000000 · IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

Decision makers

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