Closed tender

Living and Lived Experience Panel Facilitator

Details

Buyer: The City of Edinburgh Council
Value: £120,000
Topic: Health and social work services
Published: 13 February 2026
Submission: 6 May 2026
Source: uk:public_contracts_scotland

Tender description

The City of Edinburgh Council (the Council), on behalf of the Edinburgh Alcohol and Drug Partnership, wished to put in place a contract with a single Provider (an individual or organisation) to facilitate a Lived-and-living-Experience Panel. The aim of this co-production is to improve the quality of Drug and Alcohol recovery services by ensuring that they are informed by lived and living experience of substance use, service use and recovery. Lot 1: The Council sought to appoint a single Provider (Individual or Organisation) to deliver the specified service. An open procurement process was followed where by the Single Procurement Document (SPD) was 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. The minimum standards and any other requirements were set out in the Tender documents & Contract Notice. Thereafter an Award Criteria and Pricing evaluation was undertaken to select the tender which represent the best overall value for money.

Timeline

Completed: Tender published13 February 2026
Current notice
Completed: Submission date6 May 2026

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. Every regulated tender is advertised on Public Contracts Scotland, the Scottish public sector's tender portal. Suppliers register free on the portal and can set alerts for opportunities in their sector. 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. A downloadable contract register lists every procurement carried out through a regulated process.

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 The City of Edinburgh Council's contract awards have been in architectural and engineering services, IT services and health and social work.

Relevant CPV codes

85000000 · Health and social work services
85322000 · Community action programme
85323000 · Community health services
98000000 · Other community, social and personal services
98133100 · Civic betterment and community facility support services

Decision makers

Connect with the people behind this procurement.

Job title	Phone number	Work email
Head of Procurement	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@the-city-of-edinburgh-council.gov
Commercial Director	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@the-city-of-edinburgh-council.gov
Procurement Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@the-city-of-edinburgh-council.gov
Category Lead	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@the-city-of-edinburgh-council.gov
Senior Buyer	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@the-city-of-edinburgh-council.gov
Contracts Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@the-city-of-edinburgh-council.gov