Published date: 17 May 2019

Closed early engagement


Closing date: 10 June 2019

Contract summary

Industry

  • Probation services - 75231240

Location of contract

North East, North West, Yorkshire and the Humber, East Midlands, West Midlands, East of England, London, South East, South West, Wales

Procurement reference

tender_207421/770422

Published date

17 May 2019

Closing date

10 June 2019

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

The Ministry of Justice intends to tender intervention and rehabilitation services in England and Wales. These services form part of the probation services.

The services to be procured are expected to comprise:
- Rehabilitative Interventions, delivered as part of Rehabilitation Activity Requirements (RARs);
- Resettlement Interventions;
- Provision of Unpaid Work (or community payback); and
- Accredited Programmes.

Enabling services & interventions to support offenders' desistance will also be available to procure via the dynamic framework.

This Contract Finder Notice has been issued for Rehabilitative Interventions & Resettlement Interventions. A separate notice has been issued for Innovation Partners to deliver Accredited Programmes & Unpaid Work & support the NPS to identify and deliver wider innovation.

This Notice is being issued for Market Engagement purposes only.

Any information provided is indicative only of the Authority's current intentions and is subject to change.

More information

Additional text

The Authority will conduct a series of market engagement events between May and October 2019 to inform service and contract design, all interested suppliers are invited to attend. Details regarding initial events can be found below; additional events will be publicised in due course. If you would like to register to hear more about these events, please email ProbationDynamicFramework@justice.gov.uk

Launch events (28th to 30th May)
The launch events will outline:
- Our vision for probation services and what we want to achieve
- Indicative procurement timelines

These will be joint events covering two procurements: 1) Accredited Programmes and Unpaid Work; and 2) Rehabilitative and resettlement interventions. Dates have been scheduled for:
- London - 28th May 2019 (10:30 - 13:00)
- Cardiff - 29th May 2019 (10:30 - 13:00)
- Manchester - 30th May 2019 (10:30 - 13:00)

If you are unable to attend in person but would like to attend remotely, the launch event in London will be broadcast via webinar.

Webinars: Overview of Services
Webinars, providing an overview of the services to be procured are scheduled for the week commencing the 3rd of June. We will repeat the same event twice.

Please register for all launch events and webinars at the following link: http://probationlaunch.eventbrite.com

The procurement activity for the dynamic framework is expected to commence in late 2019 with the dynamic framework operational from the end of July 2020.

About the buyer

Contact name

Ministry of Justice

Address

102 Petty France
London
SW1H 9AJ
England

Telephone

+44 02033343555

Email

ProbationDynamicFramework@justice.gov.uk

Website

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice