Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2016-07-08
Buyer: Department of Health
Country: UK
Region: UNITED KINGDOM
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 79420000 | 85000000 | 85100000: Health services | 85140000: Miscellaneous health services | 85300000
Estimated value: 70000 GBP

Technical requirements: My Social Worker. Named social workers local area pilot for people with learning disabilities, autism and mental health conditions.
This notice is intended to provide interested suppliers with the opportunity to gain an understanding of a potential Department of Health (DH) requirement. The attached documents are therefore draft and for Information only, may change and may not fully reflect any eventual final versions.
The Department of Health will ultimately seek tenders for the provision of a service to work nationally with a range of local areas as pilot sites to design and test an effective operating model for named social workers for people with learning disabilities or autism who may have mental health conditions. This will require Local Areas, with support from the successful organisation to innovate and test in practice key elements including the role, intended recipients, required support, processes, outputs and outcomes.
Co-ordinating and sharing learning as the pilot's progress will be fundamental to the success of the programme and informing future decisions on wider rollout. Therefore, the successful organisation will be able to provide evidence of previous experience in building momentum and wider interest in new ways of working and building a live and ongoing platform for a community of best practice. The successful organisation will support, help shape, and co-ordinate across areas in order to enable robust local evaluation and establish outcome measures to allow ongoing comparison and later summative evaluation of the programme.
There will be available funding to release trained social workers in each local area to undertake the named social worker role with appropriate support, measurement and recording of results and experience. It is intended that the majority of the funding available is used to release social workers to undertake this role and the successful organisation will be required to support the Department of Health in identifying and allocating individual payment to the Local Area Pilots.
1) a Baseline Report to be provided to the Department of Health no later than 3 weeks after the start of the contract that:
— Describes the current situation of the identified local areas that will undertake the pilot activities.
— Proposes a timetable and action list for each local area pilot to turn the Local Area Pilot Intended Outcomes into operational delivery.
— Identifies the key baseline areas for comparison that may allow consistent measurement of pilot scheme efficacy.
2) a Mid-Term report that details progress on the overall Local Area Pilot scheme, delivered not later than 4 months after the start of the requirement that details the processes to be used in seeking to deliver the intended outcomes. To include;
— An outline of the Named Social Worker Pilots for each local area and reflect the needs of each local area and their communities.
— Demonstration of how the pilots align with Transforming Care models being developed in local areas and what the added value is.
— Proposes a timetable and project plan for each pilot site highlighting commonalities for implementation of the ‘My Social Worker’ prototype.
3) Provision of all retained data to allow subsequent analysis and comparison. The data should be capable of being shared across the NHS community in order to provide a transparent means in which other areas can learn from this experience.
4) A final pilot report to be provided to the Department of Health that details the data collected; summarises findings and highlights the aspects of the pilot findings that will impact potential future implementation.