Renfrewshire Early Learning and Childcare Places Flexible Framework

Renfrewshire Council is seeking to procure the service of a number of local providers in respect of the future provision of early learning and childcare places within the Renfrewshire Council Area. This will allow the Council flexibility to offer Parents and Carers (including kinship carers) a choice of provider for the funded Early Learning and Childcare (ELC) entitlement via a Council owned and managed nursery or from an independent or third sector provider.

Interested Providers should be aware that there is a new shared framework which replaces both How good is our early learning and childcare and A quality framework for day care of children, childminding and school-aged childcare and the Care Inspectorate will begin to use the new framework for inspection from September 2025.

The Flexible Framework will allow participating Providers to add new Services and newly Commissioned Places. It will also allow for admissions by New Entrants (Providers) throughout its duration and will be reopened at the discretion of the Council depending on demand for Services.

The Flexible Framework will be split in two lots as follows:

Lot 1 – Registered Day-Care Providers

Lot 2 – Registered Childminder

The purpose of this event is to provide an overview of the published tender opportunity and a run through/training of how to use the Public Contracts Scotland- Tender system to participate/submit a tender response.

Any provider organisations interested in tendering to participate as a registered day-care provider or registered childminder should register and attend one of the available sessions.

During this online webinar we will watch our expert walk you through the bidding process, using the Renfrewshire tender documents for this opportunity. We will demo how to register/ login to Public Contracts Scotland (PCS) , how to find the contract notice and express interest. We then follow the Renfrewshire buyer’s instructions verbatim, to access the docs in Public Contracts Scotland-tender (PCS-t) and open all envelopes. We will spend time on questions that perhaps tripped bidders up in the past. We also demo the Q&A functionality and how to upload evidence and response documents. Essentially the aim is for you as a bidder, watch our trainer going through the tendering process as a supplier in real-time, to ensure that you know what your next step will be.

This webinar will include:

• Introductions and house keeping from SDP
• Show you how to register and login to Public Contracts Scotland /Public Contracts Scotland-tender
• How to search and find the Renfrewshire’s Early Learning and Childcare Places Flexible Framework opportunity
• Search PCS-t for this contract, using the actual project code
• Open the Single Procurement Document and supporting docs for this framework opportunity

How to prepare for this event

You can attend the webinar from the comfort of your own desk – the joining instructions and Cisco WebEx link are contained within the confirmation email received at time of booking, and also within the reminder emails. To prepare, you can access SDP’s top tips on how to join a webinar, or alternatively please email info@sdpscotland.co.uk if you have any further questions about the joining process.

Please feel free to join the webinar before the start time.