Published date: 3 May 2018

Closed early engagement


Closing date: 3 August 2018

Contract summary

Industry

  • Education and training services - 80000000

Location of contract

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

Procurement reference

tender_165834/670646

Published date

3 May 2018

Closing date

3 August 2018

Description

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is seeking to establish a Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) that provides a broad range of prison and youth custodial estate education or Information, Advice and Guidance services. The DPS services would complement the education services provided under the Prison Education Framework (PEF) which is currently out for tender.

The DPS forms a key part of the new strategy to give governors empowerment and control over education in their establishments. It is the MoJ's ambition that a wide variety of suppliers will join the DPS that are capable of provide high quality education and related services that meet governors' varied requirements and maximise governor choice. It is the current intention of the Ministry of Justice that the DPS will be operate with regular, short term call off contracts to provide specialist and bespoke services to prisons and youth custodial estate that will complement the education delivered to the prison though the PEF.

MoJ will utilise supplier engagement to help develop any categories. The potential value associated with the DPS excluding VAT is estimated to be up to 100000000 GBP

In issuing this Prior Information Notice, the Ministry of Justice is seeking to inform the market of their desire to undertake market engagement in respect of the proposed DPS.

Please note that MOJ are considering whether private and third sector providers operating prisons and/or the youth custodial estate will be permitted to act as authorised buyers under the DPS, enabling them to purchase services from DPS suppliers. A decision on these options will be made before the call to competition is issued.

Please Note this may be procured as one or potentially two separate DPSs (one for the adult estate and one for the youth estate) downstream following our engagement with the market and further development of requirements nonetheless the Authority are keen at this early stage and through this notice to provide maximum visibility of the overall potential requirements

More information

Links

Additional text

The procurement exercise will run via the esourcing portal https://ministryofjusticecommercial.bravosolution.co.uk If your organisation is not already registered then we advise you to register using the above link. Getting help to access the Ministry of Justice Bravo system is available via email at: esourcing@justice.gsi.gov.uk and by telephone: 0845 0100 132

Once suppliers can access Ministry of Justice Bravo system you will have the option to view "PQQ's open to all suppliers". From this list you can express interest by opening and clicking "Express interest". Once you have expressed an interest, you can open the PQQ to view the structure, deadlines, messages and download any attachments.

The PQQ on Bravo which you will require is the 'Prison Education Dynamic Purchasing System - Market Engagement PQQ_111, which is being utilised as a data room for this procurement and will include information and dates regarding market engagement events/webinars, question and answers and any other information which the MoJ regards as helpful to suppliers. Suppliers should submit any queries in relation to this procurement through this.

Crown Commercial Service (CCS) requires tender documentation issued by government departments for contracts exceeding 10,000 GBP over the life of contract are published online at https://www.gov.uk/contracts-finder for the general public. Contract awarded as a result of this procurement will be published on this website, subject to the statutory grounds for redaction as set out in the FOI Act 2000.The MoJ reserves the right at any time not to establish a dynamic purchasing system, without any liability on its part.

About the buyer

Address

Ministry of Justice, 102 Petty France
London
SW1H 9AJ
England

Email

commercial.prisondeducation@justice.co.uk

Website

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