P314/2 - Birmingham & Solihull Youth Promise Plus (YPP) - Locally-Based Intervention Worker Services for Neets

Tender description

Birmingham & Solihull Youth Promise Plus (YPP) is a Greater Birmingham and Solihull Local Enterprise Partnership (GBSLEP) endorsed initiative funded through the European Commission ESIF 2014+ European Social Fund (ESF) and “Youth Employment Initiative” (YEI) arrangements. The project covers the Birmingham & Solihull municipal areas which form the areas of greatest need within the wider GBSLEP geography in terms of youth engagement and unemployment. As part of the Birmingham & Solihull Youth Promise Plus (YPP) project, tenders are now invited for delivery of the Birmingham & Solihull Youth Promise Plus Locality-Based 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. The lots in P314/2 are as follows: • Locality-Based Intervention Worker Services for NEETS in North Birmingham • Locality-Based Intervention Worker Services for NEETS in South Birmingham • Locality-Based Intervention Worker Services for NEETS in East Birmingham • Locality-Based Intervention Worker Services for NEETS in West Birmingham • Locality-Based Intervention Worker Services for NEETS in Solihull BCC 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 24th June 2016 using the Supplier Portal. For more information please email Richard Osborne: Richard.osborne@birmingham.gov.uk