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title: "Prison Retail Services"
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# Prison Retail Services

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/prison-retail-services-ocds-h6vhtk-02887d). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Notice summary:** Multiple Retail Workshops geographically located across England and Wales providing a distribution service to the Prison Estate in England and Wales. HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) Prison Retail Service provides approximately 80,000 prisoners with the means to order goods (fresh and frozen food, ambient food and non-foods e.g. toiletries) using their own funds.

## Key Information
- **Status:** RECORDED (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [Ministry of Justice](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/ministry-of-justice-gov-d18)
- **Published Value:** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 0
- **Procurement Method:** Not published
- **Main Category:** goods
- **Classifications (CPV):** Food, beverages, tobacco and related products
- **Delivery Location:** Not published
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-02887d`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/prison-retail-services-ocds-h6vhtk-02887d#tl-md)

## Description
Multiple Retail Workshops geographically located across England and Wales providing a distribution service to the Prison Estate in England and Wales.
HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) Prison Retail Service provides approximately 80,000 prisoners with the means to order goods (fresh and frozen food, ambient food and non-foods e.g. toiletries) using their own funds. 
The contract is a key operational service in maintaining a stable environment and supports the HMPPS decency agenda, which focuses on normalising aspects of prison life to prepare eligible prisoners for release.
The current solution is provided as part of a nationally managed service providing wholesale goods, logistics/fleet, rehabilitation of prisoners and the management of multiple workshops.  At the time of the ITT there will be 18 prison workshops but this is expected to  rise over term of contract; these are located within prisons.

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F000311-2021)
- **Last Source Update:** 2021-01-07T23:08:02.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-11-02T07:39:11.211Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-02887d