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Year-round Welcome Centre

Details

Buyer: The City of Edinburgh Council
Topic: Health and social work services
Published: 12 November 2026
Submission: 14 December 2026in 1 month
Source: uk:public_contracts_scotland

Tender description

The City of Edinburgh Council (the Council) require to be put a contract in place for the provision of a year-round welcome centre to support people who are rough sleeping in Edinburgh as the current contract is coming to an end. The Welcome Centre is designed to provide accommodation and support on a short-term basis before moving people to alternative accommodation that meets their needs. Lot 1: The Council is seeking to appoint a single Provider to deliver the specified service. An open style procurement process will be adopted 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.. It is intended that any Contract resulting from this ITT will commence on 1 April 2027 for a period of three years with two optional extensions (one of two years and one of 12-months), undertaken at the sole discretion of the Council.

Timeline

Completed: Tender published12 November 2026
Current notice
Next: Submission date14 December 2026in 1 month

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About the buyer

The City of Edinburgh Council is the local authority for Scotland's capital city, buying through its own commercial and procurement service. Before running a competitive tender, the Council checks its existing frameworks for value, including through Scotland Excel and Scottish Procurement. Scotland Excel acts as the centre of procurement expertise for local government across the country.

Over the past 5 years, most of The City of Edinburgh Council's contract awards have been in architectural and engineering services, IT services and health and social work.