Published date: 8 August 2025

Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.


Closing: 17 July 2025, 3pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Education and training services - 80000000

Location of contract

East of England

Value of contract

£11,000

Procurement reference

tender_496829/1503816

Published date

8 August 2025

Closing date

17 July 2025

Closing time

3pm

Contract start date

1 August 2025

Contract end date

31 March 2026

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Call-off from a dynamic purchasing system

A mini-competition or direct purchase from a pre-established dynamic purchasing system.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

Award of a call off contract under the Prison Education Dynamic Purchasing System for a Mental Health in Construction course for Prisoners at HMP Highpoint.
The course shall include the following elements and be classroom based:
1. Safety First - IOSH safety, Health and environmental for construction workers. (CSCS Card)
2. Mental Health - Deliver a session to help develop an understanding of the effects on wellbeing and mental health working in the construction industry
3. Understanding Organised crime in construction - Deliver an understanding of the effects that organised crime has within the construction industry. Discuss the risk this may cause. Educate the cohort with skills to employ should they have to deal with organised crime within the construction industry.
4. Culture - Develop the learners understanding of the cultures within the construction industry that can cause risks and temptations. This shall include substance misuse.
5. Stay Calm - Coping with the pressures of life in construction. This shall include the risks of confrontation in the construction industry when working on site this shall be interactive with learners
6. Emotional Intelligence - Discuss with learners how their own behaviours affect those who work around them
7. Interview skills - Deliver up to date market data about vacancies within the construction industry and prepare learners to interview using the skills developed within the course. Develop coping strategies for tests. Work collaboratively with onsite outreach employability services to produce CV's.

Award information

Awarded date

29 July 2025

Contract start date

1 August 2025

Contract end date

31 March 2026

Total value of contract

£11,000

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Karen Mackey Consultants

Address

Manor Cottage, High Street, Goudhurst, Kent, TN17 1AG

Reference

No reference - other

Supplier is SME?

Yes

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Address

5 Wellington Place
Leeds
LS1 4AP
England

Email

commercial.prisoneducation@justice.gov.uk