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Awarded · ResultStage · award

Essex County Council

retender Greater Essex Individual Placement and Support for Severe Mental Illness (IPS for SMI)

Value£8.0m
Awarded22 Jul 2025
Published23 Jul 2025
RegionNationwide
Outcome — awarded
GET SKILLS EMPLOYMENT & TRAINING LTD
Awarded value£8.0m
Award date22 Jul 2025

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Who to contact
Jon Rockstad
ProcurementSandA@essex.gov.uk

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

The brief

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.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

Essex County Council as lead commissioner is

Essex County Council as lead commissioner is seeking to procure a service for Individual Placement and Support for Serious Mental Illness (IPS for SMI).

02

The IPS for SMI is an employment

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.

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-04fb48
Stage
award · Awarded
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
042502-2025
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