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Provision of Library Services for HMP Bure, HMP Norwich, HMP Wayland and HMP The Mount

No classification published
Location not published
Published value
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Submission deadline Not published
Lots published1
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Tenderline Synopsis: Ministry of Justice: "Provision of Library Services for HMP Bure, HMP Norwich, HMP Wayland and HMP The Mount". 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
No deadline published
Submission GatewayDirect notice routeLegal Basis & RegimeStandard procurementEstimated Value (exc. VAT)Not published
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Published history for Ministry of Justice. These figures describe retained records, not a forecast of bids or a measure of buyer bias.
Published-to-award variance
Not availableInsufficient comparable data
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
Check noticePublished terms
Payment obligations depend on the applicable regime and contract. Consult the official documents.
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. Published-to-award variance 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 Unpublished data stays unknown.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
Procedure methodNot published
Procurement categoryNot published
Statuscomplete
Framework / DPSNot published
CompetitionNot published
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basisNot published
Tender period startsNot published
Clarification deadlineNot published
Electronic submissionNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Published18 Nov 2025, 15:16 GMT
Last source update18 Nov 2025, 15:16 GMT
Recurring procurementNot published
ClassificationNot published
Delivery areaLocation not published
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-05d579
What is being bought
A contract to provide and safeguard statutory provision of prison library services at HMP Bure, HMP Norwich, HMP The Mount and HMP Wayland.
What changed
From the official release history
  1. Official notice release published
    18 Nov 2025, 15:16 GMT
  2. Official notice release published
    18 Nov 2025, 15:06 GMT
  3. Official notice release published
    18 Nov 2025, 15:01 GMT
  4. Official notice release published
    6 Nov 2025, 13:20 GMT
  5. Official notice release published
    6 Nov 2025, 13:19 GMT
  6. Official notice release published
    6 Nov 2025, 09:16 GMT
  7. Official notice release published
    6 Nov 2025, 09:11 GMT
  8. Status changed to complete
    28 Oct 2025, 15:20 GMT
  9. Official notice release published
    28 Oct 2025, 15:20 GMT
  10. Buyer information updated
    28 Oct 2025, 15:20 GMT
Lots and requirements (1)
Published by the contracting authority
  • Lot 1 · #1
    Individual lot title not published
    complete
    Published valueNot published
    The source published no individual title or description for this lot.
    Contract periodNot published
    EligibilityNot published
    Options / renewalNot published
Timeline
  1. Procedure published
    18 Nov 2025, 15:16 GMT
  2. Award active
    Not published · Not published
  3. Contract active
    Signed 6 Nov 2025, 00:00 GMT · £1,752,535
Commercial outcome and competition
Awards
Greenwich Leisure Limited
Not published · Not published · active
Contracts
Contract
£1,752,535 · signed 6 Nov 2025, 00:00 GMT · active
Contract period: 6 Nov 2025, 00:00 GMT — 31 Mar 2029, 23:59 BST
Bid statisticsNo aggregate bid statistics published
Buyer and organisations in this procedure

Ministry of Justice

Contracting authority GB-PPON-PDNN-2773-HVYN
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Documents (1)
Official links; attachments are not copied

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Related procedures (0)
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Planning and rationale
Planning budgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Procedure rationaleThe direct award of library services to the supplier are strictly necessary for reasons of extreme and unavoidable urgency. The Ministry of Justice has a legal requirement to secure the provision of education and training for prisoners (Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009). Section 86 of the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 provides that the Secretary of State must secure the provision of such education and training facilities as he/she considers appropriate for education and training suitable to the requirements of prisoners. The incumbent library supplier advised that they would be unable to continue providing a service due to their contractual arrangements ceasing with the local authority on 30th June 2025. This resulted in the supplier going into termination as this represented the majority of their business and they were unable to continue operations due to the loss of this local authority contract. This created a huge challenge for the Authority because there is a statutory obligation to provide prison library services and service provision cannot disrupted. Given these reasons of extreme and unavoidable urgency, these services could not be awarded on the basis of a competitive tendering procedure (due to timescales involved and that the supplier only provided 2 months notice of cessation of business). The urgency is unavoidable as it is not attributable to any act or omission of the contracting authority and could not have been reasonably foreseen by the contracting authority. The business owner's requirement is to maintain current delivery and system stability, with future contracts being based on the services currently delivered, with all Terms and Conditions and contract value remaining unchanged. The actual contract date is 02/07/2025-31/03/2029.