PRJ-1203-NEL ICB-Individual Placement Support (IPS) Newham, BHR and Waltham Forest - Multi-Lots:

The procurement is divided into 3 lots:

Lot 1: MENTAL HEALTH IPS EMPLOYMENT SERVICES for Barking, Dagenham, Havering, Redbridge (BHR) & Waltham Forest ICB.

Overview

There is a requirement for both BHR & Waltham Forest to provide an Individual Placement and Support (IPS) Employment Service to assess and offer support to unemployed mental health service users with the aim of supporting them in work.

IPS Employment Specialists to be integrated within the local Community Recovery Teams to provide IPS employment support to Service Users with Mental Health Conditions that are unemployed to move into paid work.

Aims and Objectives

It is widely accepted that good employment is generally positive for a person's mental health, including those who have a mental health condition. Work supports and promotes social and economic inclusion and enables a person to be more independent and therefore have more control over their life, all of which have been identified as protective factors of mental wellbeing. For this reason, it is widely acknowledged among professionals that the longer people are absent from or out of work, the more likely they are to experience depression and/or anxiety. Therefore, the aim of this Mental Health employment service is to support people to gain appropriate employment.

Lot 2: Mental Health Individual Placement Service and Employment Support Service in Newham

Overview

The overall vision for the service is to enable people with complex mental health issues to be able to enjoy a good quality of life, reduce health inequalities, remain independent and in control, achieve paid employment, and support each individual's recovery.

This will be achieved via the implementation of the evidenced based IPS employment approach to increase access to paid employment for people with complex mental health problems accessing secondary mental health services.

IPS Employment Specialists will be integrated within the local Primary Care Network (PCN) Mental Health Teams and Borough Based Secondary Care Teams to provide IPS employment support to Service Users with Mental Health Conditions that are unemployed to move into paid work.

Lot 3: Multi-Lot (Combined Lots 1 and 2)

A Bidder may be interested in both Lot 1 and Lot 2 and in such an instance, the bidder in addition to providing a response under Lots 1 and 2, must also provide a response to the question(s) under Lot 3.

Additional information:

The Contract is expected to commence on 1st July 2023 for an initial period 9 months and 2 years. The Contract may be extended for an additional period of up to two years, at the sole discretion of the Authority.

Lot 1:The total contract value for lot 1 for the 9 months and 4 years is £4,517,367.50

Lot 2: The total contract value for lot 2 for the 9 months and 4 years is £1,419,300

The Contract is expected to commence on 01 July 2023, with the possible deadline for delivery of the service being 30 June 2028.

Bidders are requested to review the content of the ITT guidance document carefully, register their organisation, and express their interest in the ITT via the e-tendering portal (ProContract). ITT documentation can be accessed following initial registration and expression of interest via the e-tendering portal:

https://proContract.due-north.com/register

Any reference to "the e-tendering portal" should be considered reflective of the above web address.

The ITT has been issued through the e-tendering portal. All Bidders wishing to participate must complete and submit Bids that comply with the requirements set out in the Document 1 - ITT Guidance Document. Bidders are required to complete the online questionnaire on ProContract and upload any attachments as indicated before the deadline for submission of bids specified in the ITT document.

The project on ProContract Portal can be accessed by clicking the following link: -(https://procontract.due-north.com/Advert?advertId=109c80d3-306f-ed11-811c-005056b64545)

The deadline for the submission of tender is 14:00 Thursday - 25 January 2023.

The deadline for any clarification questions is 16 January 2023. All clarification questions must be submitted via the messaging facility on Pro-contract.