Published date: 10 August 2015

Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.


Closing: 9 September 2015

Contract summary

Industry

  • Judicial services - 75231000

Location of contract

London

Value of contract

£5,000 to £62,500

Procurement reference

NOMS Reducing Reoffending -Pilot innovative approach-improving engagement of women offenders in PI

Published date

10 August 2015

Closing date

9 September 2015

Contract start date

13 October 2015

Contract end date

31 March 2016

Contract type

Not applicable

Procedure type

Not applicable

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

NOMS are inviting expressions of interest for a Grant Award from providers in developing a revised approach to the engagement of women offenders in prison industries. The project will focus specifically on assisting women offenders at HMP Holloway to take full advantage of the potential offer in the textiles manufacturing workshop to enable them to gain work experience, training and life skills - and enable evaluation of provision of those services.

The scope of the grant is broadly as follows:

2. The funding seeks to enable the following outcomes but is not limited:
a) Developing a model targeted at the specific areas of need for women in engaging in work in prison.
b) Evaluating the model to determine the extent to which they have impacted on the target areas.
c) Developing provider neutral toolkits for the implementation of promising approaches.

Please find further details in the attached Scoping Document.

More information

Attachments

Additional text

The Ministry of Justice will be performing this event through its eSourcing Portal.
The eSourcing Portal is an online application that allows all potential suppliers to create and submit their responses to any Requests for Information (RFI), Requests for Quotes (RFQ), or Requests for Proposals (RFP) via the internet rather than in paper form (where they have been invited to respond).

If you are not registered on the eSourcing Portal please send an email to the relevant buyer,
shiffiel.dickson@noms.gsi.gov.uk or alternatively to Procurement-reducingreoffendingCMT@noms.gsi.gov.uk stating: Company Name; Your Name; Contact email; Sourcing Reference Number: 4864-2-Reducing Reoffending-SE-RFI.

The buyer or an individual associated with the sourcing event will then contact you with the registration process. If you are already registered on the eSourcing Portal please contact either the relevant Buyer or the Procurement-reducingreoffendingCMT@noms.gsi.gov.uk expressing your interest in the sourcing event.

The RFI event will be available on the Emptoris e-Sourcing portal from Monday 10th August 2015. This will give you access to all of the relevant documents, instructions and application form.

The application process is due to close at 12:00 noon on 9th September 2015.
Bidders should allow sufficient time to register their interest, prior to the RFI submission deadline on 9th September 2015.

If you have any technical problems while registering or using Emptoris you should contact eSourcing@justice.gsi.gov.uk. Further information is also available at https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice/about/procurement#eprocurement. If you have any questions regarding the process or criteria, you should contact Procurement-reducingreoffendingCMT@noms.gsi.gov.uk

About the buyer

Contact name

Shiffiel Dickson

Address

Ministry of Justice, Clive House
70 Petty France
London
SW1H 9EX
England

Email

shiffiel.dickson@noms.gsi.gov.uk