PQ0146 -Birmingham & Solihull Youth Promise Plus (YPP) – Interim Contract – Specialised Intervention Worker Services for NEETs at Risk of Offending/Re-offending - AWARD

As part of the Birmingham and Solihull Youth Promise Plus (YPP) there is now an interim opportunity for a 6 months Contract commencing November 2016. This will require 10 Intervention Workers offering specialist support for young people at risk of offending/re-offending. These workers will form part of the matrix of Intervention Workers already commissioned to work with other cohorts as part of the Birmingham and Solihull Youth Promise Plus arrangement.

For this contract the Intervention Workers will be based with the Birmingham Youth Offending Services and the Police Integrated Offender Management Teams across Birmingham and Solihull.

The Intervention Workers, on a case-loaded basis, will engage with, and provide holistic and tailored personal support to, NEET (Not Engaged in Education, Employment or Training) young people (15-29 year olds including both unemployed and economically inactive) with the specific aim of progressing them into positive outcomes including education, training, work experience and ultimately sustainable employment.

Birmingham & Solihull Youth Promise Plus is a Greater Birmingham and Solihull Local Enterprise Partnership (GBSLEP) endorsed initiative funded through the European Commission ESIF 2014+ European Social Fund (ESF) and “Youth Employment Initiative” (YEI) arrangements. The project covers the Birmingham & Solihull municipal areas which form the areas of greatest need within the wider GBSLEP geography in terms of youth engagement and unemployment.

BCC will be using its e-tendering system (in-tend) for the administration of this procurement process and providers must register with the system to be able to express an interest. The web address is https://in-tendhost.co.uk/birminghamcc Registration and use of in-tend is free. All correspondence for this procurement process must be via the in-tend correspondence function. If you are unable to register with in-tend please either email us at cps@birmingham.gov.uk or call 0121 464 8000.

If you are interested in tendering please click on the following link to access Birmingham City Councils tender Portal:-. https://in-tendhost.co.uk/birminghamcc/ and submit your details to register as a bidder. We will send you a log on and password so you can download the tender documentation. Requests to participate must be by way of completion and return of the tender documentation no later than 12:00 (GMT) on 4th November 2016 using the Supplier Portal. For more information please email: Brigitte Kershaw@birmingham.gov.uk