Coming up· published 28 Oct 2025
Responding to relationship breakdown to reduce homeless presentations Pre-Tender Supplier Engagement
Fife Council · Fife, Scotland
Fife Council is planning this contract. It is a contract for other health and social care in Fife.
Source: Public Contracts Scotland, published 29 Oct 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
Fife Council is planning this contract. It is a contract for other health and social care in Fife. The buyer has published an early notice. It gives providers time to prepare before the tender opens.
Public Contracts Scotland published it on 29 October 2025. The OCDS ID is ocds-r6ebe6-0000814193. Bids are made through the buyer's Public Contracts Scotland portal.
Summary of the contracting process
See notice for full details.
About this tender
Providing relationship coaching support in certain circumstances to rebuild relationships within a family home, giving time to better plan housing options rather than becoming homeless.
Lots (2)
- 01
Lot 1 - Early InterventionPlanned
Public awareness campaign to highlight the benefits of working through relationship breakdown to support stability of remaining in the family home and take time to plan future housing options. A developed public awareness campaign would become an enduring resource to continue to communicate this message. Non-violent relationship breakdown has been a long-standing driver of homelessness in Fife.
Since 2007/08, an average of 609 households per year have cited this as the main reason for their homelessness application. Fife Council Housing Service intends to conduct a procurement exercise, to establish a contract(s) for a pilot service to help support relationship stability to help young people to remain with their family if it is safe to do so.
- 02
Lot 2 - Relationship Coaching SupportPlanned
Providing relationship coaching support in certain circumstances to rebuild relationships within a family home, giving time to better plan housing options rather than becoming homeless. Families requiring support will have access to a Relationship Coach, who will work with the family and signpost to other support services with the aim of preventing a homeless presentation.
Route 1 - referral via family/individual responding to public awareness campaign Route 2 - referral via presentation to Housing Services at time of homeless assessment Relationship Coaching Support will also include the monitoring and measurement of the impact of this pilot project. Non-violent relationship breakdown has been a long-standing driver of homelessness in Fife.
Since 2007/08, an average of 609 households per year have cited this as the main reason for their homelessness application. Fife Council Housing Service intends to conduct a procurement exercise, to establish a contract(s) for a pilot service to help support relationship stability to help young people to remain with their family if it is safe to do so.
Key facts
Contract
- Service
- Other
- Procurement type
- Standard
- Category
- Services
- Contract period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Lots
- 2
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-r6ebe6-0000814193
- CPV code
- 70333000 - Housing services; 85000000 - Health and social work services; 85312300 - Guidance and counselling services
- CPV division
- 70 - Real estate services; 85 - Health and social work services
Location
- Local authority
- Fife
- Town
- Kirkcaldy
- Postcode
- KY7 5LT
- Electoral ward
- Glenrothes Central and Thornton
- Constituency
- Glenrothes and Mid Fife
- Delivery area
- Clackmannanshire and Fife
- Region
- Scotland
- Sub-region
- Clackmannanshire and Fife
- Area
- Eastern Scotland
- Country
- Scotland
Buyer
Contracting authority
- Organisation
- Fife Council
- Category
- Services
- Phone
- +44 3451550000
- Address
- Glenrothes, KY7 5LT · Scotland · Scotland
Not stated in the notice: contact.
Documents and links
- PIN - Responding to relationship breakdown to reduce homeless presentationspubliccontractsscotland.gov.uk/NoticeDownload/DownloadDocumen…
- Responding to relationship breakdown to reduce homeless presentations Pre-Tender Supplier Engagement -…publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx
- Public Contracts Scotland portal, to register and bidpubliccontractsscotland.gov.uk
- Api.publiccontractsscotland.gov.ukapi.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/v1/Notice
- Publiccontractsscotland.gov.ukpubliccontractsscotland.gov.uk/Search/Search_Switch.aspx
- OCDS record ocds-r6ebe6-0000814193 (JSON)find-tender.service.gov.uk/api/1.0/ocdsReleasePackages/ocds-r…
Questions about this tender
When will the Responding to relationship breakdown to reduce homeless presentations… tender open?
Fife 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 Responding to relationship breakdown to reduce homeless presentations…?
Fife Council, based in Fife, Scotland.
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