P0359/1 Phase 3 - Birmingham & Solihull Youth Promise Plus: Specialist Intervention Worker Services

As part of a third phase of commissioning, in respect of the EU commission funded Birmingham & Solihull Youth Promise Plus (YPP) project, tenders are now invited for delivery of Specialist Intervention Worker services for NEETs. Within this service area, providers are required to recruit, employ, manage and deploy Intervention Workers who, 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.

Workers will be attached and embedded in a range of existing service access points and other suitable premises/locations appropriate to the specified target participant groups. Three specific contractual lots are set out in this phase of commissioning as follows:

• Services for those at risk of offending/re-offending (Lot 1.3)
• Services for those with Mental Health support needs (Lot 1.4a)
• Services for those with Learning Difficulties/ disabilities (Lot 1.4b)

The transfer of staff will take place by operation of law if the conditions in the Transfer of Undertakings(Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 (TUPE) are satisfied. Staff liability will be provided in the series of Invitation to Tender documents.

Provisionally contracts are scheduled to commence from April 2017 and end in June 2018.

Birmingham City Council 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 25th January 2017 using the Supplier Portal. For more information please email Brigitte Kershaw: brigitte.kershaw@birmingham.gov.uk