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Screening and Assessment Lot 2 Reading Paper Tool Contingency

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Tenderline Synopsis: Ministry of Justice: "Screening and Assessment Lot 2 Reading Paper Tool Contingency". Published status: complete. Published value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Contracting AuthorityMinistry of JusticeScope & CategoriesNot publishedSubmission Window
complete
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Submission GatewayDirect notice routeLegal Basis & RegimeStandard procurementEstimated Value (exc. VAT)Not published
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Average Price Reduction
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Requires at least 5 comparable procedures
Competition Density
5Bids / Report
0% of reports have one bid
Supplier ConcentrationHigh Concentration
Solirius Reply LtdTop vendor: 53.1% of attributable value
Payment Terms
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Coverage: 225 active published awards; 4 bid reports (which may be per lot). Supplier values exclude multi-supplier awards, frameworks and DPS, and use GBP only. They are published award values, not payments. Price reduction compares single-lot, single-award, single-supplier GBP procedures with explicitly non-framework/non-DPS status; increases remain in the average. Unpublished data stays unknown. Awarded suppliers are winners, not all bidders.
Historical Awarded Suppliers With This Authority:
Supplier NameHistoric AwardsAttributable GBP Value
Solirius Reply Ltd1 win£250,000
Girbau UK1 win£221,250
Procedure terms
Contracting AuthorityMinistry of Justice
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Statuscomplete
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Published24 Sept 2025, 10:38 BST
Last source update24 Sept 2025, 10:38 BST
Recurring procurementNot published
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OCIDocds-h6vhtk-05a0c0
What is being bought
A paper based assessment tool for accurately measuring the decoding ability of prisoners, supporting targeted literacy interventions and contributing to educational planning and rehabilitation efforts. Objectives: • Provide a standardised and reliable measure of prisoners’ decoding ability • Enable prison staff and education teams to identify literacy needs quickly and effectively • Support rehabilitation pathways and progression in English provision within prisons • Produce consistent, comparable data that can be aggregated at establishment and system level
What changed
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  1. Status changed to complete
    24 Sept 2025, 10:38 BST
  2. Official notice release published
    24 Sept 2025, 10:38 BST
  3. Buyer information updated
    24 Sept 2025, 10:38 BST
Lots and requirements (1)
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  • Lot 1 · #1
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    complete
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Timeline
  1. Procedure published
    24 Sept 2025, 10:38 BST
  2. Award pending
    Not published · £49,238
Commercial outcome and competition
Awards
Powell Phonics Ltd
£49,238 · Not published · pending
ContractsNo contract published
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Buyer and organisations in this procedure

Ministry of Justice

Contracting authority GB-PPON-PDNN-2773-HVYN
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Planning and rationale
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Procedure rationaleUnder the new Prison Education Services (PES), the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is required to provide a digital platform for the Screening and Assessment (S&A) of prisoners in functional skills, reading, and additional learning needs. However, following two recent unsuccessful procurement exercises for the reading element, the Authority is currently unable to fulfil this obligation. As an interim measure, a paper-based solution will be implemented for reading-related screening and assessments. The evaluation tool to be provided is via sites licensed on an individual site license basis based upon the number of prisoners having assessments undertaken within a set period. The contracting authority (MoJ) is invoking the single-supplier direct award provisions under paragraphs 5 and 6 of Schedule 5 of the Procurement Act 2023: • paragraph 5 (a) due to a particular supplier having intellectual property rights or other exclusive rights, only that supplier can supply the goods, services or works required, and (b) there are no reasonable alternatives to those goods, services or works This justification also applies due to: • The MoJ does not have any express rights to transfer or licence the intellectual property rights to any other supplier • No reasonable alternatives