The framework will be available for all contracting authorities as defined by the Public Contracts (Scotland)Regulations 2015 including local authorities, registered providers, schools, academies, colleges, universities, health authorities, councils, boards and trusts, police, fire & rescue services, and non-departmental public bodies. Due to character limitations a full list is available at www.scottishprocurement.scot/24, but for the avoidance of doubt the list includes the following local authorities:
Councils.
Aberdeen City Council
Aberdeenshire Council
Angus Council
Argyll & Bute Council.
City of Edinburgh Council.
Clackmannanshire Council.
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar.
Dumfries and Galloway Council.
Dundee City Council.
East Ayrshire Council.
East Dunbartonshire Council.
East Lothian Council.
East Renfrewshire Council.
Falkirk Council.
Fife Council.
Glasgow City Council.
Highland Council.
Inverclyde Council.
Midlothian Council.
Moray Council.
North Ayrshire Council.
North Lanarkshire Council.
Orkney Islands Council.
Perth and Kinross Council.
Renfrewshire Council.
Scottish Borders Council.
Shetland Islands Council.
South Ayrshire Council.
South Lanarkshire Council.
Stirling Council.
West Dunbartonshire Council.
West Lothian Council.
A sub-contract clause has been included in this contract. For more information see: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/info/InfoCentre.aspx?ID=2363
Community benefits are included in this requirement. For more information see: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/info/InfoCentre.aspx?ID=2361
A sub-contract clause has been included in this contract. For more information see: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/info/InfoCentre.aspx?ID=2363
Community benefits are included in this requirement. For more information see: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/info/InfoCentre.aspx?ID=2361
A summary of the expected community benefits has been provided as follows:
summary of the expected community benefits has been provided as follows:
LHC Clients are required to consider community benefits on each and every contract. Tenderers must be aware that LHC Clients may add community benefit requirements including but not limited to:
— to generate employment and training opportunities for priority groups;
— vocational training;
— to up-skill the existing workforce;
— equality and diversity initiatives;
— to make sub-contracting opportunities available to SMEs, the third sector and supported businesses;
— supply-chain development activity;
— to build capacity in community organisations;
— educational support initiatives;
— to work with schools, colleges and universities to offer work experience; and— to minimise negative environmental impacts, for example, impacts associated with vehicle movements and/or associated emissions and impacts on protected areas, buildings or sites
For the avoidance of doubt in Scotland, it is mandatory for community benefit requirements to be included for all projects over the relevant OJEU Threshold.
(SC Ref:483266).