Dynamic Purchasing System South East Regional Meeting – 9 th March 2017 – Chris Davison 1
What is the Dynamic Purchasing System? • Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) is the new way to buy provision through the Flexible Support Fund Budget • Suppliers will upload “Offers” onto our procurement system, detailing the programmes that they run to help customers and where they run them • DWP will draft Business Cases detailing what support our customers need, and what types of training support we would like to buy to move them nearer to, or into, employment • The DPS Buyers team will match the Business Cases with the “Offers” that have been uploaded onto the procurement system, and identify the best fit. • Provided the best scoring “Offer” identified is of a suitable standard this Supplier will be invited to deliver the requested training. Department for Work & Pensions 2
Jobcentre Plus Objectives • Achieve increased numbers of working age people in work • Reduce the number of workless households • Reduce child poverty • Halve the disability employment gap • Encourage claimants in workless households to achieve successful and sustainable entry into employment • To ensure that claimants who are not yet ready to return to work (including Lone Parents with young children, and carers) receive an appropriate level of support to ensure they are prepared to return to the labour market at the right time. Department for Work & Pensions 3
DPS – Supplier Journey Overview Department for Work & Pensions 4
Employability Journey Category 1Engagement 2 Moving towards work 3 Support for hardest to help 4 Supporting hardest to help 5 Addressing barriers 6 Skills for work 7 Getting jobs 8 Keeping jobs with complex & multiple into work barriers Overview Encourage engagement by Support people who are Requirement for support for Tailored support for hardest to Support to overcome barriers to Skills training, but only Support people to be proficient In work support potential JCP customers unlikely to look for work hardest to help – SJ outcome only help – with job outcome getting a job and self sufficient in job who traditionally find it without some help to increase expectation If contract is over £50,000 hunting difficult to access our motivation/confidence or services For a DPS ‘routeway’ - across more than one category including skills training Content Outreach to promote DWP Full Diagnostic Interview & Tailored intensive support for Tailored intensive support for Support to improve motivation/ Short certificated courses Realistic career / work Planning to stay in work Services Work Plan people with significant barriers people with significant barriers – confidence and overcome leading directly to a job planning Finances who are too far away from the for those where work is an practical barriers to work Contingency Innovative Activities to Identifying primary & Short Sector specific Full Diagnostic Interview & labour market to move straight immediate realistic prospect engage people e.g. Young secondary barriers training and skills Work Plan into work. once barriers are addressed Full diagnostic interview and In work support People shortage training leading work plan to identify primary Buddying Understanding the world of Identifying primary & directly to a job Suitable for people with Full diagnostic interview and and secondary barriers to Local or specialised delivery work including self secondary barriers Mentoring moderate learning work plan to identify primary and overcome • for specific communities employment difficulties secondary barriers with support to Skills Experience Complex/multiple overcome Entrenched • • Black Minority Ethnic Self Awareness and Self barriers worklessness Personal Circs communities Presentation Entrenched Literacy/ Numeracy/ • • worklessness ESOL Literacy/ • Health & Disability Asian Women Skills Experience Health & disability Numeracy/ESOL • Issues including Personal Skills & Gang Members, Those Personal Circs Mental Health Debt and Money • affiliated with gangs Health/Disability Personal Resilience management Drugs/alcohol Job hunting skills NEET Job Hunting Skills • substance abuse Caring • CVs; Job Application Isolated communities Attitude to finding work responsibilities techniques; Interview Mild learning • 1 -1 mentoring / counselling Confidence building & difficulties preparation; Interview skills; Motivation follow up; Homelessness • Challenging negative attitudes Promoting positive attitudes Offending Issues • Pros & Cons of work versus non-work Devising work plan ESOL Literacy/Numeracy assessment only Funding model 30% start fee 20% start fee, 50% completion 10% start fee, 30% completion fee, 60% job outcome 25% start fee, 75% completion (single category) fee, 30% job outcome fee 70% completion fee Performance 100% - signed Mentoring 100% of completers to complete an action plan 100% of completers to complete 30% Job Outcomes – in work 45% Job Outcomes – in work 60% Job Outcomes – 45% Job Outcomes – Agreement an action plan 4weeks in a 13 week tracking 4weeks in a 13 week tracking 75% signing Mentoring Job Outcomes – in work Job Outcomes – in work window window Agreement will be in employment and/or 100 % to achieve an 4weeks in a 13 week tracking 4weeks in a 13 week tracking 13 weeks after date mentoring agreed SJ outcome window window agreement was signed
Routeways Routeway Funding Model Performance R1: Engagement (1), 30% Start fee 100% of completers to complete an action Moving towards work (2) and Support for 70% completion fee plan hardest to help with complex and multiple barriers (3) R2: 20% Start Fee 40% Job Outcomes – in work 4 weeks 13 Supporting Hardest to help into work (4) and 30% Completion Fee weeks tracking period. Skills for Work (6). 50% Job Outcome R3: Addressing barriers (5) and 10% start fee 45% Job outcomes – in work 4 weeks 13 Getting jobs (7) 30% completion fee weeks Tracking 60% Job outcome R4: Skills for work (6) and 10% start fee 60% Job outcomes – in work 4 weeks 13 Getting Jobs (7) 30% completion fee weeks Tracking 60% Job outcome R5: Engagement (1), 20% Start Fee 100% of completers to complete an action Moving towards work (2) 50% Completion Fee plan Support for hardest to help with complex and 30% Job Outcome multiple barriers (3) 30% Job Outcomes - – in work 4 weeks 13 Supporting hardest to help into work (4) weeks Tracking
What makes a quality supplier offer • Fits the category • Demonstrates innovation, quality and value for money • Is tailored to the client groups • Provides the ‘what’ and ‘how’ • Shows the claimant’s journey through the provision and expected progress into/towards work • Shows awareness of labour market and strong links to employers (where the performance expectation is for job outcomes) • Specifically states what the expected outcomes of the provision will be Department for Work & Pensions 7
What makes a quality supplier offer – or doesn’t? A quality offer doesn’t – • Have missing evidence against some of the evaluation questions: 1. Overall fit of provision content 2. Evidence that the provision will move claimants closer to work 3. Performance expectations and robustness of supporting rationale 4. Evidence that adequate performance management systems are in place • Talk at length about previous good working relationships with DWP • Read like an application for grant funding to extend provision • Consist of a generic offer submitted in lots of different categories • Cover several different courses in one offer • Use the wrong font Department for Work & Pensions 8
Further information • Attached is the District Supplier Journey Support Package. Contains all the information you need to become a registered supplier. • Link to the Contract finder page on Gov.UK relating to DPS. You can find the DPS Specification document here. Dynamic Purchasing System for the Provision of Work Focused Activities - Contracts Finder Department for Work & Pensions 9
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