Published date: 14 February 2019

Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.


Closing: 22 October 2018

Contract summary

Industry

  • Education and training services - 80000000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£1,640,000

Procurement reference

tender_165042/746723

Published date

14 February 2019

Closing date

22 October 2018

Contract start date

31 December 2018

Contract end date

31 March 2020

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (above threshold)

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

This procedure can be used for procurements above the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

The requirement was to procure support across three key areas of activity:
(1) Hands-on implementation support from a network of IPS experts;
(2) A workforce development programme to support recruitment and training of new high quality IPS staff;
(3) Developing, cascading and embedding tools for effective reporting, monitoring and evaluation.

Specific outputs under the proposed contract will include:

Activity Area 1
- Recruitment of 7 skilled IPS Expert Implementation Managers (EIMs) to correspond with the newly agreed NHS England/NHS Improvement regions;
- Recruitment of programme lead to manage the whole project, and operational manager to lead and provide support to EIMS
- Recruitment of analytical lead to ensure accurate reporting and evaluation of activity of EIMS and IPS teams;
- Development of communities of practice / learning communities and the reach of these communities across IPS services;

Activity Area 2
- Accreditation and recognition of an IPS training curriculum, and a number of training organisations using the curriculum to structure IPS training, and use of this curriculum by IPS teams to train and develop staff;
- Development and distribution of free-to-use training materials, and uptake of free-to-use training materials by IPS teams;
- Development of learning collaborative plus associated marketing, recruitment resources, materials, and events;

Activity Area 3
- Development of a web-based benchmarking reporting tool to be used by IPS services to support more consistent reporting of outcomes;
- Development of a prototype case management system which providers can use to either replace a) existing ill-adapted systems or b) excel/paper-based records;
- Conduct a feasibility study around integration of this case management system with NHS clinical systems;
- Formal feedback (e.g. surveys, focus groups) from programme users (providers, commissioners, employment advisers);

More information

Previous notice about this procurement

National Infrastructure Support for IPS Expansion

  • Opportunity
  • Published 17 September 2018

Award information

Awarded date

15 January 2019

Contract start date

31 December 2018

Contract end date

31 March 2020

Total value of contract

£2,500,000

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Social Finance

Address

131-151 Great Titchfield St, London, Westminster, W1W 5BB, UNITED KINGDOM

Reference

None

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Contact name

Anita Pannu

Address

Quarry House, Quarry Hill
Leeds
LS1 7UE
England

Telephone

01138251422

Email

anita.pannu@nhs.net