PQ0177 - Birmingham & Solihull Youth Promise Plus: Business Engagement for NEETs with specialist support needs (2018) - AWARD

Youth Promise Plus is a Birmingham and Solihull Employment Pathway Project supported by the European Social Fund and Youth Employment Initiative.

As part of the Birmingham & Solihull Youth Promise Plus project (YPP), the Council is now commissioning a supplier for the provision of the 'Birmingham & Solihull Youth Promise Plus Business Engagement for NEETs with specialist support needs (2018). This contract will commence 2nd January 2018 and complete on 30th June 2018.

The primary aim is to lead on the development of employment pathways for young people with complex needs through recruitment and effective deployment of a team of Employment Development Workers to be co-located with, and fully embedded within, a YPP Employer Engagement service managed through Birmingham City Council. The supplier of this contract will work actively in partnership with a range of other YPP delivery agencies including an existing contracted Business engagement provider. This current provider, SEETEC Ltd, will lead on development of employment pathways for Young Participants accessing the YPP project through locality delivery and outreach. The selected supplier for this new commission will deliver an aligned, similar service focusing on participants with more complex needs identified through YPP specialist providers around homeless support, known NEETs in vulnerable groups such as care leavers, those at risk of offending, those with mental health support needs and young people with learning difficulties/disabilities.

The Council is seeking a single supplier for this newly contracted service to engage actively with a range of appropriate employers in order to seek commitment from them to offer opportunities such as work experience, work shadowing and traineeships, as well as to recruit young unemployed YPP participants into substantive jobs.

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 providing a quotation 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 quotation pack.

Requests to participate must be by way of completion and return of the quotation pack no later than 12:00 (GMT) on 28th November 2017 using the Supplier Portal.