Awarded· 18 Sept 2025
Community Link Worker Service
The City of Edinburgh Council · City of Edinburgh, Scotland
The City of Edinburgh Council has awarded Community Link Worker Service. It is a contract for other health and social care in City of Edinburgh.
Source: Public Contracts Scotland, published 17 Dec 2025. Details are refreshed every 30 minutes.
Key dates
2025
Contract awarded
2025
Award notice published
OJEU - F15 - Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency Notice · 00:00
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About this tender
In brief
The City of Edinburgh Council has awarded Community Link Worker Service. It is a contract for other health and social care in City of Edinburgh. It was awarded on 18 September 2025. The contract value is £1,145,000.
It is run as an award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition. Public Contracts Scotland published it on 17 December 2025. The OCDS ID is ocds-r6ebe6-0000809827.
Summary of the contracting process
See notice for full details.
About this tender
The Community Link Worker Service offers non-clinical support to a variety of patient cohorts, following referrals made by GP Practice Teams. Edinburgh's Community Link Worker Service is currently delivered by a network of eight third sector organisations.
Lots (1)
- 01
Lot 1Complete
In order to await the outcome of the Scottish Government review of Community Link Worker Services nationally and various other strategic drivers; Subject to the Council's internal governance approvals process, the Edinburgh Health & Social Care Partnership (EHSCP) intend to direct award contracts for a period of one year from 1 April 2026 to 31 March 2027 to the incumbent Third Sector Organisations (with an option to extend for a further 6 months).
This approach will allow the outcomes of the above to influence direction; and thereafter, for any procurement process to be completed.
Key facts
Contract
- Service
- Other health and social care
- Procurement type
- Standard
- Category
- Services
- Contract period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Lots
- 1
- Number of suppliers
- 8
Procedure
- Notice type
- OJEU - F15 - Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency Notice
- Procurement method
- Limited
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Current stage
- Award
- Stages so far
- Award
- Published on
- Public Contracts Scotland
- Awardee scale
- SME
- Buyer's portal
- Public Contracts Scotland
Values
- Contracts value
- £1,145,000
Not stated in the notice: tender value, lots value, awards value.
Status
- Tender
- Complete
- Lots
- Complete
- Contracts
- Active
Not stated in the notice: awards.
References
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-r6ebe6-0000809827
- CPV code
- 85000000 - Health and social work 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
- Kelly Faulds
- Address
- Edinburgh, EH8 8BG · Scotland · Scotland
Not stated in the notice: phone.
Documents and links
- Community Link Worker Service - The Community Link Worker Service offers non-clinical support to a variety of…publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx
- Public Contracts Scotland portal, to register and bidpubliccontractsscotland.gov.uk/Search/Search_Switch.aspx
- Api.publiccontractsscotland.gov.ukapi.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/v1/Notice
- OCDS record ocds-r6ebe6-0000809827 (JSON)find-tender.service.gov.uk/api/1.0/ocdsReleasePackages/ocds-r…
Questions about Community Link Worker Service
Who won the Community Link Worker Service contract?
The award notice does not name the supplier. The full record is in the official notice linked on this page.
How much is the Community Link Worker Service contract worth?
The contract value is £1,145,000.
Who is the buyer for Community Link Worker Service?
The City of Edinburgh Council, based in City of Edinburgh, Scotland. The named contact is Kelly Faulds.
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