# National Infrastructure Support for IPS Expansion

> Contract award record from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [NHS England](/buyers/nhs-england/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: [Social Finance](/contract-winners/social-finance/public-sector-contract-awards)
- Award value: £2,500,000
- Tender value: £1,640,000
- Award date: 15 January 2019
- Published: 14 February 2019
- Contract start: 31 December 2018
- Contract end: 31 March 2020
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: 6d1f063e-0ae0-4a22-b352-e2b380b86b66-269938
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-6b9eb027-28ef-4e9f-819f-df165830895a

## 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 \(providers, commissioners, employment advisers\);

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/6d1f063e-0ae0-4a22-b352-e2b380b86b66-269938)