Published date: 28 March 2018

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: 10 April 2018

Contract summary

Industry

  • Education and training services - 80000000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£130,000,000 to £900,000,000

Procurement reference

tender_139916/638569

Published date

28 March 2018

Closing date

10 April 2018

Contract start date

3 September 2018

Contract end date

2 September 2022

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

The Ministry of Justice (the "Authority") is seeking to establish a multi-lot framework for the provision of education services to those in custody in England - the Prison Education Framework (PEF). The PEF will comprise of 17 Lots . Up to five (5) suppliers will be appointed per Lot. Broadly, one call off competition will be conducted in respect of each Lot and one call off contract will be awarded per Lot to a single supplier.
Suppliers appointed to a Lot will be mandated to participate in the call-off competition process for that Lot.
The PEF will be for an intial period of 4 years with an option to extend for up to 2
years.
The procurement documents are available for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge, at
(URL) https://ministryofjusticecommercial.bravosolution.co.uk/
This procurement is being conducted under the Light Tough Regime ('LTR') in
accordance with regulations 74 to 76

More information

Previous notice about this procurement

Prison Education Framework

  • Early engagement
  • Published 22 March 2017

Links

Additional text

BravoSolution esourcing portal

https://ministryofjusticecommercial.bravosolution.co.uk/

The procurement exercise will be run via the BravoSolution esourcing portal. If your organisation is not already registered then we advise you to register using the embedded hyperlink. 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. The 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 to reject all or any of the bids for the competition and not to appoint any potential provider, without any liability on its part. Please submit any queries in relation to this procurement via the 'xxxxxPrison Education Framework - Market Engagement PQQ (PQQ_65)'xxxxx within Bravo, which is being utilised as a data room for this procurement.
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About the buyer

Address

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

Email

commercial.prisoneducation@justice.gov.uk