Published date: 25 January 2023

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


Closing: 12 January 2023, 11:59pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Research services - 73110000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£113,422

Procurement reference

tender_315506/1171820

Published date

25 January 2023

Closing date

12 January 2023

Closing time

11:59pm

Contract start date

13 January 2023

Contract end date

1 December 2025

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Call-off from a framework agreement

A mini-competition or direct purchase from a pre-established framework agreement.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

Carry out ethnographic research in a small sample of prisons to understand the nature of debt in prisons and its impact on prisoners, including on prisoner safety, and to identify pinch-points and emerging threats. Methods will include qualitative interviews, observation, use of internal data and management information and structured surveys in these and additional prisons. These sources will be integrated with findings from in-house intelligence and analysis. The research will be oriented towards potential solutions across HMPPS and prison processes and the illicit economy.
Delivery of an interim and final report based on the analysis of the national data and empirical research. These will include learning that MoJ and HMPPS can use in the design of solutions.
The supplier will work with MoJ/HMPPS to distil the research aims into prioritised research questions in the early stages of the project. The supplier will work together with in-house analysts to address wider research questions related to mapping the scale and spread of debt across the estate and quantifying the harm that is stemming from debt, and the supplier will integrate the resultant findings into the research and reports.

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Award information

Awarded date

17 January 2023

Contract start date

13 January 2023

Contract end date

1 December 2025

Total value of contract

£113,422

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

The University of Bath

Address

Claverton Down, Bath BA2 7AY

Reference

No reference - other

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Address

10 South Colonnade, Canary Wharf
London
E14 4PU
England

Email

MoJProcurementProfessionalServices@Justice.gov.uk