Individual Placement and Support for Severe Mental Illness (IPS for SMI) 2025 - Essex

Concepts

• health and social work
• chelmsford
• north east essex
• west essex
• secondary care mental health services
• essex
• essex county council
• clinical mental health teams
• severe mental health conditions
• severe mental illness

Location

ESSEX Essex is a large, complex, two tier Authority with 3 Integrated Care Boards (ICBs), 12 District, Borough and City Councils and two Unitary Councils. To support place based commissioning and operational services the County is split into 4 quadrants: Mid Essex - Braintree, Chelmsford, Maldon North East Essex - Colchester,Tendring South Essex - Basildon, Brentwood, Castle Point, Rochford, Rayleigh West Essex - Uttlesford, Harlow, Epping Forest The two Unitary Authorities of Southend and Thurrock are not within the Essex Footprint but are included in the term ‘All Essex’. Please note that the Individual Placement and Support for Serious Mental illness (IPS for SMI) 2025 service is to be commissioned for Southend and Thurrock as part of the MSE ICB.

Description

Essex County Council as lead commissioner is seeking to procure a service for Individual Placement and Support for Serious Mental Illness (IPS for SMI). The IPS for SMI is an employment support service integrated with secondary care mental health services to assist people who experience severe mental health conditions to find paid work. ECC is the lead commissioner for this service on behalf of the three ICBs in Essex, namely Mid and South Essex (MSE), Hertfordshire and West Essex (HWE ), and Suffolk and North East Essex (SNEE). Please note that this service will not cover Hertfordshire or Suffolk. For the purposes of this procurement, this service is an ALL Essex service, which includes the Unitary Authorities of Southend and Thurrock. The contract will have an initial term of 3 years (36 months), with an option to extend for a period of no more than 2 years (24 months) at the discretion of the commissioners. The contract value for a potential 5 year duration is capped at £1,372,433 per annum or £6,862,165 for 5 years. The service is expected to deliver IPS access to 1530 unemployed people aged 18 or over, each contract year. It should be noted that additional funding relating to the possible expansion of the service ( i.e an increase to annual access targets for unemployed people) may be available to the Council’s NHS partners throughout the Contract Term, subject to the delivery of baseline targets and related performance. The published contract value takes this into account. Further details can be found in the procurement documentation.

Total Quantity or Scope

This service is a priority for Essex requiring good partnership working with the local NHS Foundation Trust, Commissioners and other local community based services. The Provider must be able to demonstrate a full understanding of Individual Placement and Support for Severe Mental Illness including the requirement for Employment specialists to work closely with clinical mental health teams. The need for excellent partnership working with local clinical teams and a good understanding of All Essex and its diverse populations will be key. Potential Providers should ensure they are familiar with the IPS for SMI programme and assess their respective capacity and capability to provide an All Essex service, before registering for the procurement and downloading the documentation.

Award Criteria

CPV Codes

• 85000000 - Health and social work services

Indicators

• Bids should cover the whole contract.
• Renewals are not available.
• Award on basis of price.

Other Information

The Council envisages that this procurement will be published on ProContract the week commencing 28th October 2024. However, the Council reserves the right to postpone the publication in order to ensure suitable assurance that the tender documents are fit for purpose. Once the procurement is published a corresponding advertisement will be available via ProContract to enable prospective bidders to access, view and respond to this opportunity. To submit an effective expression of interest in this opportunity, bidders must use the functionality within ProContract when the Invitation To Tender (ITT) is open.