Published date: 22 October 2021
Closed early engagement
Contract summary
Industry
Prison services - 75231230
Location of contract
Any region
Procurement reference
tender_231136/1008034
Published date
22 October 2021
Closing date
29 October 2021
Contract is suitable for SMEs?
Yes
Contract is suitable for VCSEs?
Yes
Description
HMPPS will shortly be hosting market engagement events for Prisoner, Family and Significant Other Services.
There will be four virtual market engagement events (held on Microsoft Teams) covering North, South, East, West & Wales between the 1st and 3rd of November - the schedule is:
North - Monday 1st November 10am-12pm
South - Monday 1st November 2-4pm
West and Wales - Tuesday 2nd November 10am-12pm
East - Wednesday 3rd November 10am-12pm
Indicative lots (contracts legally independent of one another) will be confirmed as part of the market engagements. The approach for Women's and Long Term High Security Estate is yet to be decided, for those interested in bidding in these areas please feel free to attend any of the engagement events.
The content of the market engagements will be the same at each event, HMPPS are running multiple events to encourage networking amongst interested bidders. A question and answer log will be circulated following the final session.
Please respond to MoJCommercialReset@justice.gov.uk and confirm:
Your preferred region and date(s)
Email addresses of those attending
Your consent for HMPPS to share your contact details with other interested providers to discuss partnership bids
If you have given consent above, please provide a brief paragraph about your organisation which will be shared along with contact details
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This notice being issued for Stage 2 market engagement purposes only.
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is retendering the provision of HMPPS Prisoner Family and Significant Other Services in England and Wales public prison estate It is recognised that supporting and maintaining links between offenders and their families can help reduce re-offending. Doing so can contribute to tackling intergenerational offending by addressing the poor outcomes faced by children of offenders. Visitor centres offer support to Families and Significant Others. They offer signposting to a range of support services, decrease the stress associated with visiting a prison establishment and facilitate inter agency working. The visitor centre services are delivered throughout most of the estate, the level of service and size of resourcing is largely dependent on local need.
About the buyer
Address
NMS Redfern Building
Manchester
M60 0AE
England
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Closing date: 29 October 2021