Coming up· published 11 Jul 2025
Adult Sight Loss and Visual Impairment Support Service
The City of Edinburgh Council · City of Edinburgh, Scotland
The City of Edinburgh Council is planning Adult Sight Loss and Visual Impairment Support Service. It is a contract for other health and social care in City of Edinburgh.
Source: Public Contracts Scotland, published 11 Jul 2025. Details are refreshed every 30 minutes.
Key dates
2025
Pipeline notice published
PCS Notice - Website Prior Information Notice · 00:00
View notice2025
Tender notice expected
Date given in the buyer's earlier notice
About this tender
In brief
The City of Edinburgh Council is planning Adult Sight Loss and Visual Impairment Support Service. It is a contract for other health and social care in City of Edinburgh. The buyer has published an early notice. It gives providers time to prepare before the tender opens.
Public Contracts Scotland published it on 11 July 2025. The OCDS ID is ocds-r6ebe6-0000804211. Bids are made through the buyer's Public Contracts Scotland portal.
Summary of the contracting process
The City of Edinburgh Council, acting through the Edinburgh Health and Social Care Partnership (EHSCP), is in the planning stage to tender a contract for an Adult Sight Loss and Visual Impairment Support Service. The procurement process, which falls under the service category, is primarily geared towards providing rehabilitation, mobility services, and eye clinic support for individuals with visual impairments in Edinburgh.
The procurement is currently marked as "planned" with a projected tender advertisement in the last quarter of 2025 and an anticipated contract start date in April 2026. The contract is expected to last until at least April 2031, with potential extensions, contingent on funding. Interested parties should submit their notes of interest and complete the attached questionnaire by 12 noon on 25 July 2025.
About this tender
The purpose of this Prior Information Notice (PIN) is to advise the market that the Edinburgh Health and Social Care Partnership (EHSCP), through the City of Edinburgh Council, intend to tender a contract to appoint a Provider to deliver an Adult Sight Loss and Visual Impairment Support Service; and to seek notes of interest from suitably qualified/ experienced potential providers.
Further details about the requirement are included in the attached PIN.
Lots (1)
- 01
Lot 1Planned
The EHSCP intend to tender a contract to appoint a suitably qualified Provider with the expertise, capability and capacity to: A) Deliver a Sight loss and Vision Impairment Rehabilitation and Mobility Service. B) Deliver an eye clinic support service.
C) Supply equipment post assessment which includes identifying beneficial assistive daily living aids, such as symbol canes and mobility items, lighting and glare control, kitchen tools, time devices, digital devices as well as reading and transcript tools like magnifiers. Provision consists of a limited range of equipment on behalf of EHSCP; and advice is provided on self-purchase of equipment. D) Administration of the Statutory Certificate of Vision Impairment (CVI).
E) CVI register retention. F) Connect people to other services and support. It is anticipated that: - the tender opportunity will be advertised during the last quarter of 2025.
Tender Evaluation will include submission of a formal written bid via Public Contracts Scotland. - the new contract will begin in April 2026 and that it will run until at least April 2031 with optional extensions, subject to the availability of a complex funding package. Further details about the requirement are included in the attached PIN..
If you wish to note interest in this contract opportunity, please indicate so on Public Contract Scotland and complete the attached brief questionnaire and email it to kat.mcclory@edinburgh.gov.uk by 12 noon on Friday 25 July 2025.
Key facts
Contract
- Service
- Other health and social care
- Procurement type
- Standard
- Category
- Services
- Contract period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Lots
- 1
Procedure
- Notice type
- PCS Notice - Website Prior Information Notice
- Current stage
- Planning
- Stages so far
- Planning
- Published on
- Public Contracts Scotland
- Buyer's portal
- Public Contracts Scotland
Not stated in the notice: procurement method, awardee scale.
Values
Not stated in the notice: tender value, lots value, awards value, contracts value.
Status
- Tender
- Planned
- Lots
- Planned
Not stated in the notice: awards, contracts.
References
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-r6ebe6-0000804211
- CPV code
- 85000000 - Health and social work services; 85100000 - Health services; 85121281 - Ophthalmologist services; 85323000 - Community health services
- CPV division
- 85 - Health and social work services
Location
- Local authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Town
- Edinburgh
- Postcode
- EH8 8BG
- Electoral ward
- City Centre
- Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh
- Delivery area
- City of Edinburgh
- Region
- Scotland
- Sub-region
- City of Edinburgh
- Area
- East Central Scotland
- Country
- Scotland
Buyer
Contracting authority
- Organisation
- The City of Edinburgh Council
- Category
- Services
- Contact
- Hannah Boutiche
- Phone
- +44 1314693922
- Address
- Edinburgh, EH8 8BG · Scotland · Scotland
Documents and links
- PINpubliccontractsscotland.gov.uk/NoticeDownload/DownloadDocumen…
- Questionnairepubliccontractsscotland.gov.uk/NoticeDownload/DownloadDocumen…
- Adult Sight Loss and Visual Impairment Support Service - The purpose of this Prior Information Notice (PIN)…publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx
- Public Contracts Scotland portal, to register and bidapi.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/v1/Notice
- Publiccontractsscotland.gov.ukpubliccontractsscotland.gov.uk/Search/Search_Switch.aspx
- OCDS record ocds-r6ebe6-0000804211 (JSON)find-tender.service.gov.uk/api/1.0/ocdsReleasePackages/ocds-r…
Questions about Adult Sight Loss and Visual Impairment Support Service
When will the Adult Sight Loss and Visual Impairment Support Service tender open?
The City of Edinburgh Council has not yet given a date for the tender notice. An early notice is the time to answer any market engagement questions and gather the evidence a bid will need.
Who is the buyer for Adult Sight Loss and Visual Impairment Support Service?
The City of Edinburgh Council, based in City of Edinburgh, Scotland. The named contact is Hannah Boutiche, on +44 1314693922.
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