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

The subject of the procurement is the rehabilitation service for Kelan's individual customers, vocational training for young people receiving rehabilitation allowance, and its development. This call for tender concerns the service to be tendered in the Northern Finland region. The service to be procured is part of the rehabilitation development project for those receiving rehabilitation allowance, which will be implemented in the years 2025-2028. The project will create a new individual vocational rehabilitation service for customers who receive rehabilitation allowance solely from Kelan. The target group for the vocational training of young people receiving rehabilitation allowance is a customer aged 18-29, 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 law (Act on Rehabilitation Benefits and Rehabilitation Allowances 566/2005). The customer has been granted rehabilitation allowance paid by Kelan, which the customer has received for less than 2 years. The customer's ability to work and function is assessed to recover with appropriate care and/or rehabilitation. The aim of the training is to activate the customer to transition from rehabilitation allowance to studies, working life or other rehabilitation services. The vocational training for young people receiving rehabilitation allowance is implemented as individual rehabilitation. The training is carried out by a coach and includes both face-to-face rehabilitation and remote rehabilitation. The service includes meetings, some of which can be implemented as video calls, in addition the service includes online rehabilitation and networking. The service is implemented according to the following service description (in force from 1 April 2027 onwards): - Vocational training for young people receiving rehabilitation allowance, a combination of face-to-face and remote rehabilitation. Kelan's service description for rehabilitation and its appendices (1-4) define the content of Kelan's organised rehabilitation and its quality requirements. 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 service implementation. 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 made regionally, also taking into account the geographical coverage to ensure the regional service need. The Northern Finland region is divided into two smaller regions A and B. The selection of service providers for the vocational training for young people receiving rehabilitation allowance to be procured for the Northern Finland region and the estimated number of customers are described in Appendix 3 of the call for tender Arrangement of Service Providers. 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 tender competition, the tenderer commits to implementing the service in accordance with Kelan's service description for rehabilitation for customers in the Northern Finland region (A or B) for which the tenderer has been selected as the service provider. The development is implemented as joint development by the service providers of the vocational training for young people receiving rehabilitation allowance, which Kelan's experts guide and coordinate. The development and the reporting related to it are implemented 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, are described in Appendix 6 of the call for tender Development Description / Vocational Training for Young People Receiving Rehabilitation Allowance. The rehabilitation of Kelan's customers is implemented in its entirety during the period 1 April 2027 – 31 October 2028. The tenderer may submit only one tender to this tender competition for the subject of this call for tender (see the call for tender section Other Information / Service Area, Number of Customers Offered and Parallel Tender).