Individual Placement Support (IPS) for NHS Telford and Wrekin CCG

NHS Midlands and Lancashire CSU are conducting this procurement on behalf of NHS Telford and Wrekin CCG.

This Invitation to Tender provides information pertaining to the procurement for Individual Placement Support (IPS) Services. The purpose of this procurement is to secure a Service Provider to deliver Individual Placement Support (IPS) Services to the Telford and Wrekin Council geographical area.

• Telford & Wrekin Clinical Commissioning Group (http://www.telfordccg.nhs.uk)

NHS Telford and Wrekin CCG have been awarded funding by NHS England to be used for partnering with local employment services to deliver a new Individual Placement Service (IPS).The service would aim to receive 60 referrals in year one and 100 additional referrals in year two.

An appropriately staffed IPS employment service in the Telford and Wrekin geographical area for secondary mental health services, will ensure:

• The development of a consistent, fidelity reviewed IPS Employment service in both Telford and Wrekin and Shropshire (the full STP area);
• More than doubling the number of people being supported into employment;
• Improved partnership working, connectivity to STP transformation planning, data & performance monitoring, and improved links across the system;
• Increased integration with the Mental Health Trust to ensure that the service can achieve a fidelity rating of 'good'.

The contract will be initially for a 2-year period with the option to extend for up to a further 24 months.

The successful Provider will be required to sign the NHS Standard Contract for the service and accept all terms and conditions.

The service model being procured is a standard know model currently being delivered by Providers across the United Kingdom. The service is required to be procured at short notice with full implementation no later than August 2019, which will include the recruitment of staff, therefore a short tender period is being utilised.

Additional information:

Midlands and Lancashire CSU is conducting this procurement exercise as a central purchasing body for another NHS body with whom the successful bidder(s) will enter into contracts for the supply of the services. Any other public sector body wishing to access the contract may do so only with permission from the contracting NHS body. The contract conditions will be set out in the Invitation to Tender. Further details will be made available via documentation and information released during the course of the tender process.

This exercise will be conducted on the Midlands and Lancashire CSU portal at

https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk

• i)Candidates should register on the portal at

https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk (registration and use of the website is free of charge). If your organisation has registered previously, you do not need to re-register.

• ii)Once registered, candidates must submit your reply on the website and by email by the deadline stated.

For technical support in submitting your expression of interest contact the BravoSolution Help-desk on

+44 8003684850 or E-mail: help@bravosolution.co.uk.

Light Touch Regime' services: This procurement is for clinical services which are Light Touch Regime services for the purpose of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 as specified in Schedule 3 of the Regulations('Regulations'). Accordingly, the contracting authorities are only bound by those parts of the Regulations detailed in Chapter 3 Particular Procurement Regimes Section 7. The contracting authorities are not voluntarily following any other part of the Regulations. The procedure which the contracting authorities are following is set out in the MOI.

As the CCG is a relevant body for the purpose of the National Health Service(Procurement, Patient Choice and Competition) (No 2) Regulations 2013 these Regulations also apply to this procurement.