Health and social work services

Tender description

The West Midlands Combined Authority is working with NHS England, the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP), and the Department of Health (DH) to trial IPS services in primary and community care settings. The aim is to test if this model can deliver a transformational improvement in employment, health, and well-being outcomes for people out of work with a self-defined long term health condition or disability. The trial will deploy IPS employment specialists across primary and community NHS services focused on 4 areas anticipated to be based around CCG geographies: Sandwell and West Birmingham, Birmingham South Central, Dudley and Wolverhampton. It will run from October 2017 to March 2020, hosted by Wolverhampton CCG on behalf of the West Midlands Combined Authority. The commissioner intends to hold 2 market engagement events, in Wolverhampton on 12th June and Birmingham on 13th June. Booking links can be found in section II.2.14). It is the intention of the contracting authority to divide this contract into Lots based on the geographies outlined in II.1.4) above. However, in order to assist in reaching this decision, the Contracting Authority will be seeking feedback from the market regarding the number of lots in order to ensure that the lotting strategy affords the best fit to the market.