Finland – Health and social work services – KUNTOUTUSTUKEA SAAVAN NUOREN AMMATILLINEN VALMENNUS, Länsi-Suomi

The subject of the procurement is the rehabilitation service for Kelan's personal customers, vocational training for young people receiving rehabilitation support, and its development. This call for tender concerns the service to be tendered in the Western Finland region. The service to be procured is part of the rehabilitation development project for those receiving rehabilitation support, which will be implemented in 2025-2028. The project will create a new individual vocational rehabilitation service for customers who receive rehabilitation support only from Kelan. The target group for the vocational training of young people receiving rehabilitation support is a 18-29-year-old customer whose illness or disability has caused or is expected to cause a significant deterioration in the customer's ability to work or study and earning opportunities in accordance with Section 6 of Kelan's Rehabilitation Act (Act 566/2005 on Rehabilitation Benefits and Rehabilitation Allowances). The customer has been granted rehabilitation support paid by Kelan, which the customer has received for less than 2 years. The customer's ability to work and function is expected to recover with appropriate treatment and/or rehabilitation. The aim of the training is to activate the customer to move from rehabilitation support to studies, working life or other rehabilitation services. The vocational training for young people receiving rehabilitation support is implemented as individual rehabilitation. The training is carried out by a coach and includes both face-to-face and remote rehabilitation. The service includes meetings, some of which can be implemented as video calls, in addition the service includes online rehabilitation and network work. The service is implemented according to the following service description (in force from 1 April 2027 onwards): - Vocational training for young people receiving rehabilitation support, a combination of face-to-face and remote rehabilitation. Kelan's service description for rehabilitation and its appendices (1-4) define the content and quality requirements of Kelan's organised rehabilitation. The service description and its appendices are applied simultaneously in the implementation of Kelan's organised rehabilitation. The service description is always primary in relation to the appendices. The service provider must follow the guidelines published by Kelan on its website under Partners / Rehabilitation Services / Guidelines for Service Providers, which are binding as part of the implementation of the service. The aforementioned service description and its appendices are referred to hereinafter in this call for tender as the "service description for rehabilitation". The tenderer commits to following the service description for rehabilitation throughout the contract period. The procurement is carried out regionally, also taking into account the geographical coverage to ensure regional service needs. The Western Finland region is divided into two smaller regions, A and B. The selection of service providers for vocational training for young people receiving rehabilitation support in the Western Finland region and the estimated number of customers is described in Appendix 3 of the call for tender, Service Arrangement. The areas used in the procurement are described in Appendix 4 of the call for tender, Map and Municipalities. By submitting a tender to this tendering procedure, the tenderer commits to implementing the service in accordance with Kelan's service description for rehabilitation for customers in the Western Finland region (A or B) for which the tenderer has been selected as the service provider. The development is carried out as joint development by the service providers for vocational training for young people receiving rehabilitation support, which Kelan's experts guide and coordinate. The development and the related reporting are carried out during the period 1 April 2027 – 31 October 2028. The progress of the development and the price to be paid for the development, as defined by Kelan in accordance with the contract, is described in Appendix 6 of the call for tender, Description of Development / Vocational Training for Young People Receiving Rehabilitation Support. The rehabilitation of Kelan's customers is carried out in its entirety during the period 1 April 2027 – 31 October 2028. The tenderer may submit only one tender to this tendering procedure (see the section Other Information / Tendered Area, Tendered Number of Customers and Parallel Tender in the call for tender).