Provision of Student Communication Support Services

The University’s Disability and Wellbeing Services requires the establishment of a Framework for various forms of Student Communication Support Services to support students who are Deaf or have hearing loss. The Framework will comprise of two main elements. British Sign Language (BSL) interpreters are required to provide communication support to Deaf students during planned teaching activity such as lectures, labs and tutorials and to enable them to access all aspects of the wider University social experience outside of formal teaching sessions. Where necessary, they are also required to provide translation support outside of lectures and classes, both online or in-person, to aid Deaf students with direct study which can include podcasts, pre-recorded lectures and readings. Electronic notetakers (ENT) are required to provide a set of notes for Deaf or hard of hearing students who cannot take their own notes because they are either lipreading or watching a sign language interpreter. They are required to provide a summary of what is being said rather than a word-for-word account. All personnel delivering these services must be appropriately qualified, experienced, and trained in supporting disabled students within higher education settings. This contract requires the provision of band 1 and band 2 BSL Interpreters holding registration with the appropriate membership bodies and Electronic Notetakers holding signature level 3 and signature level 4 certification. The number of students that require these services varies from year to year and is not finalised until the start of each semester. Additional information: Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if they are in any of the situations referred to in regulation 58 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015.

Lot 2 (Overseas and Global Mobility Tax Advice) will include, but is not limited to: - General advice on overseas taxes including but not limited to and depending on the overseas jurisdiction: corporate, personal, VAT, WHT, digital etc. - Global mobility implications of employees working overseas to ensure the University and the employee(s) are fully compliant with local regulations and legislative requirements in-country. - Ability to provide, as required, an assessment of additional cost to the University because of overseas posting. - Advice in respect of overseas employer and employee tax, social security, and associated reporting, payment and/or filing obligations that emerge from having a globally mobile workforce with employees operating in various overseas countries. - Overseas planning to ensure collaborations/working arrangements between the University and other organisations are structured in a tax efficient way whilst ensuring tax compliance and efficiency to limit liabilities (e.g., to mitigate creation of a PE where/if applicable). - Advice and implications of overseas registration for the University and subsequent set up as and where appropriate (e.g., payroll operations, in country registrations, in country filing of returns and making payments as required). - Ability to assist in implementing payroll and reporting requirements in overseas jurisdictions. Advice may also be requested on shadow payroll and where tax, wage and benefits must be compliantly paid and reported, the University may also require that overseas payroll services are provided in the form of advice, set-up, implementation and management of payroll services in one or multiple host territories. Management of the payroll services will include the payment of wages on a frequency agreed with the University as well as annual reporting. Preparation of payslips and preparation of statutory payroll forms, as well as direct overseas payroll may also be required where the employee is required to be paid in the currency of the host territory. - Ability to assist in preparation and submission of return submissions in overseas countries if applicable. - Minimising tax liabilities without risk of non-compliance. - Providing guidance on changes in legislation for any overseas tax operations. Additional information: Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if they are in any of the situations referred to in regulation 58 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015.