Closing date for receipt of tender: Friday September 6th, 2024
Return tender to: [email protected]
Queries to: Pam Bergin [email protected] or 01 2469595
Summary
The Gambling Awareness Trust is seeking proposals from qualified software development firms to design, develop, and deploy a web application aimed at recording attendance for gambling addiction counselling sessions and services across over 30 service providers throughout the country. This tool will play a critical role in streamlining our operations, gathering robust, reliable data and enhancing our ability to monitor and support service providers in their work responding to individuals dealing with harmful gambling and gambling addiction.
Background
The Gambling Awareness Trust (GAT) is an independent not-for-profit organisation established in 2019, managed by a voluntary board of directors to fund treatment and rehabilitation, research, education and raise awareness around problem gambling to minimise gambling harm in Ireland. Our vision is that fewer people in Ireland experience gambling-related harms and that those who do, can easily access relevant professional treatment and support services. GAT is the only organisation in Ireland whose sole focus is responding to the needs of those experiencing gambling harms and gambling addiction. Until recently there has not been any state funding available to address the issue of problem gambling in Irish society.
Since 2019 GAT has collaborated with a number of stakeholders to develop a broad range of specialist support and treatment services across the country:
- Dedicated in-person counselling.
- Online counselling
- Specialist Gambling Residential Treatment Programme
- National Problem Gambling Support Service
- National Helpline Service
- Recovery Café
- Family Support Service
There are currently over 30 sites across Ireland where anyone can access support within a relatively short timeframe, this support is delivered to not only individuals struggling with their own gambling activity but to their affected others. Details of these services can be found on our dedicated support website www.gamblingcare.ie
In 2023, data gathered from our services showed:
- 5,971 counselling sessions were provided to over 2,000 individuals.
- 157 Aftercare Group Sessions took place
- The National Helpline received over 4,000 calls
- Over 100,000 people visited our support website for information & advice www.gamblingcare.ie
Project Overview
The proposed web application should provide a user-friendly, secure, and efficient means to track and report on counselling session attendance. The portal should be easily accessible to all services and practitioners to enter relevant real-time data on service users on a regular basis ensuring adherence to GDPR guidelines at all times. The portal should have the capacity to capture a range of demographic data in order to provide a clear and accurate picture of the numbers of individuals seeking and receiving supports from our service providers.
Please see Tender document attached below.
Submission Guidelines
- Project Specification: A more detailed project specification document is available on request from [email protected]
- Deadline: Proposals must be submitted by Friday September 6, 2024
- Format: Proposals should be submitted in PDF format via email to [email protected].
- Enquiries: All enquiries regarding this tender should be directed to [email protected].
