Coming up· published 10 Nov 2025
PIN Holiday support for disabled children and young people
The City of Edinburgh Council · City of Edinburgh, Scotland
The City of Edinburgh Council is planning PIN Holiday support for disabled children and young people. It is a contract for children's services and Ofsted in City of Edinburgh.
Source: Public Contracts Scotland, published 11 Nov 2025. Details are refreshed every 30 minutes.
Key dates
2025
Pipeline notice published
PCS Notice - Website Prior Information Notice · 00:00
View notice2026
Tender notice expected
Date given in the buyer's earlier notice
About this tender
In brief
The City of Edinburgh Council is planning PIN Holiday support for disabled children and young people. It is a contract for children's services and Ofsted 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 November 2025. The OCDS ID is ocds-r6ebe6-0000815554. Bids are made through the buyer's Public Contracts Scotland portal.
Summary of the contracting process
See notice for full details.
About this tender
The City of Edinburgh Council ('The Council') has funded a school holiday play scheme for children and young people with a disability over the past 20 years. This service offered disabled children and young people the opportunity to take part in a range of fun activities within a structured environment.
There is a live contract for our current holiday hub programme which is open to children and young people with additional support needs. The Council is looking to scope the current market and ascertain interest from new providers who may wish to apply. It may be necessary to increase capacity of the service or to re-tender which will include incumbent providers.
Note - all information contained within this PIN may be subject to change.
Lots (1)
- 01
Lot 1Planned
What we expect: - The provider must be registered with the care inspectorate to deliver activity-based services for children with ASN. - The Provider will use safe recruitment procedures for all staff posts and will comply with relevant legislation and guidance. - Each week the provider will support up to 5-60 children or young people with additional support needs.
These numbers will depend on the support needs of the young people as agreed by the Council and the Provider. - The Providers' will be responsible for implementing the child/young person's care plan. - The Provider will ensure that any communications with families are accessible and relevant. - The Provider will have clear evidenced knowledge of working within Edinburgh to ensure network communications with other holiday activity providers.
This PIN is to ascertain if there is capacity within the market to meet the above criteria. In addition, if upon reading the above, your organisation realises that they cannot provide the service as required, then please be so kind as to remove the note of interest. By noting interest in this PIN, you are agreeing to further engagement with the Council..
Purpose of PIN is for engagement purposes only
Key facts
Contract
- Service
- Children and Young People's 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-r6ebe6-0000815554
- CPV code
- 85312120 - Daycare services for handicapped children and young people
- 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
- Paula Deegan
- Phone
- +44 1314693922
- Address
- Edinburgh, EH8 8BG · Scotland · Scotland
Documents and links
- Holiday Hubs PINpubliccontractsscotland.gov.uk/NoticeDownload/DownloadDocumen…
- PIN Holiday support for disabled children and young people - The City of Edinburgh Council ('The Council')…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-r6ebe6-0000815554 (JSON)find-tender.service.gov.uk/api/1.0/ocdsReleasePackages/ocds-r…
Questions about PIN Holiday support for disabled children and young people
When will the PIN Holiday support for disabled children and young people 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 PIN Holiday support for disabled children and young people?
The City of Edinburgh Council, based in City of Edinburgh, Scotland. The named contact is Paula Deegan, on +44 1314693922.
How do I bid for PIN Holiday support for disabled children and young people?
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