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# Provision of services in prisons

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/provision-of-services-in-prisons-ocds-h6vhtk-03dc6c). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Ministry of Justice: "Provision of services in prisons". Published status: complete. Published Value: £72,360,000. 23 published lots. Recorded submission deadline: 19 Dec 2023, 11:00 GMT. Published submission portal: ministryofjusticecommercial.bravosolution.co.uk.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [Ministry of Justice](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/ministry-of-justice-gov-d18)
- **Published Value:** £72,360,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** 19 December 2023 at 11:00 GMT
- **Lots:** 23
- **Procurement Method:** Open procedure
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Career guidance services, Industrial and technical training services, Prison services, Services related to the detention or rehabilitation of criminals, Specialist training services (+1 more)
- **Delivery Location:** UK, UKC, UKD, UKE, UKF, UKG, UKH, UKH1, UKH2, UKH3, UKI, UKJ, UKK, UKK1, UKK2, UKK4
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **Awarded Value:** £36,097,720 (exc. VAT, 11 contracts)
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-03dc6c`

## Before you bid
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[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/provision-of-services-in-prisons-ocds-h6vhtk-03dc6c#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [ministryofjusticecommercial.bravosolution.co.uk](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fministryofjusticecommercial.bravosolution.co.uk)
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/provision-of-services-in-prisons-ocds-h6vhtk-03dc6c#participate

## Description
Careers Information Advice and Guidance (CIAG) services.  HMPPS is committed to delivering a new and transformed Prisoner Education Service (PES) that increases the focus on Education, Skills and Work (ESW) within prisons and supports prisoners to improve their prospects for work on release. The PES Programme will focus on the following three overarching strategic priorities:
•	improving the numeracy and literacy of all prisoners who need it;
•	incentivising prisoners to improve their qualifications and skills to increase their prospects of finding work on release; and
•	ensuring that Governors and their teams have the knowledge, tools, support and accountabilities that they need to lead this work.
The provision of an impartial and high-quality Careers Information, Advice and Guidance (CIAG) Service is fundamental to achieving our vision and our aims. 
The vision of PES is that everyone of working age and able to work should leave prison prepared for employment or further education and training. The new CIAG Service will contribute to reducing reoffending by supporting prisoners from induction to release identifying career aspirations, setting education, skills and work-related goals, and supporting prisoners to achieve their aspirations upon release.
The new CIAG contracts offer prisoners a high quality and impartial CIAG Service. The new CIAG contracts shall replace the current CIAG services commissioned via the Prison Education Dynamic Purchasing System (PEDPS).
The CIAG Service is being procured separately to Core Education Provision 
This procurement will cover the provision of CIAG services in all prisons managed by HMPPS in England, with the exception of four prisons managed by private operators in England 
The procurement comprised eleven regional lots. Service delivery under the Contracts will commence on the 1st April 2025.

## Lots (23)
### Lot 1: CIAG Services Lot 1
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 75231200
- **Delivery regions:** UK

- **Description:** Provision of careers information advice and guidance services

- **Options published:** yes

### Lot 2: CIAG Services Lot 2
- **Lot id:** `2`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 75231200
- **Delivery regions:** UK

- **Description:** Provision of careers information advice and guidance services

- **Options published:** yes

### Lot 3: CIAG Services Lot 3
- **Lot id:** `3`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 75231200
- **Delivery regions:** UK

- **Description:** Provision of careers information advice and guidance services

- **Options published:** yes

### Lot 4: CIAG Services Lot 4
- **Lot id:** `4`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 75231200
- **Delivery regions:** UK

- **Description:** Provision of Careers information advice and guidance services

- **Options published:** yes

### Lot 5: CIAG Services Lot 5
- **Lot id:** `5`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 75231200
- **Delivery regions:** UK

- **Description:** Provision of careers information advice and guidance services

- **Options published:** yes

### Lot 6: CIAG Services Lot 6
- **Lot id:** `6`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 75231200
- **Delivery regions:** UK

- **Description:** Provision of careers information advice and guidance services

- **Options published:** yes

### Lot 7: CIAG Services Lot 7
- **Lot id:** `7`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 75231200
- **Delivery regions:** UK

- **Description:** Provision of careers information advice and guidance

- **Options published:** yes

### Lot 8: CIAG Services Lot 8
- **Lot id:** `8`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 75231200
- **Delivery regions:** UK

- **Description:** Provision of careers information advice and guidance services

- **Options published:** yes

### Lot 9: CIAG Services Lot 9
- **Lot id:** `9`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 75231200
- **Delivery regions:** UK

- **Description:** Provision of careers information advice and guidance services

- **Options published:** yes

### Lot 10: CIAG Services Lot 10
- **Lot id:** `10`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 75231200
- **Delivery regions:** UK

- **Description:** Provision of careers information advice and guidance services

- **Options published:** yes

### Lot 11: CIAG Services Lot 11
- **Lot id:** `11`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 75231200
- **Delivery regions:** UK

- **Description:** Provision of careers information advice and guidance services

- **Options published:** yes

### Lot 1-11: Market Engagement - HMPPS Careers Information, Advice and Guidance (CIAG)
- **Lot id:** `1-11`
- **Status:** planned
- **CPV codes:** 75231230, 79634000, 80510000, 80530000, 80531000
- **Delivery regions:** UK, UKC, UKD, UKE, UKF, UKG, UKH, UKI, UKJ, UKK

- **Description:** The purpose of this engagement is to enable HMPPS to inform the market of our CIAG requirements and to allow us to assess the level of interest, capability, and capacity of CIAG providers to deliver the next generation of contract service.
The procur...

### Lot Lot 1: Lot 1: Avon and South Dorset Group & Devon and North Dorset Group
- **Lot id:** `Lot 1`
- **Status:** active
- **CPV codes:** 75231200, 75231230, 79634000, 80510000, 80530000, 80531000
- **Delivery regions:** UKK

- **Estimated Value:** £5,400,000
- **Description:** Lot 1 comprises of the following Prisons:
HMP Bristol, 19 Cambridge Road, Bishopston, Bristol, BS7 8PS
HMP Channings Wood, Denbury, Newton Abbot, Devon, TQ12 6DW
HMP Dartmoor, Princetown, Yelverton, Devon, PL20 6RR
HMP Eastwood Park, Falfield, Wotton...

- **Options published:** yes

### Lot Lot 10: Lot 10: West Midlands Group
- **Lot id:** `Lot 10`
- **Status:** active
- **CPV codes:** 75231200, 75231230, 79634000, 80510000, 80530000, 80531000
- **Delivery regions:** UKG

- **Estimated Value:** £7,660,000
- **Description:** Lot 10 consists of the following Prisons:
HMP Birmingham, Winson Green Road, Birmingham, B18 4AS
HMP Brinsford, New Road, Featherstone, Wolverhampton, WV10 7PY
HMP Featherstone, New Road, Featherstone, Wolverhampton, WV10 7PU
HMP Hewell, Hewell Lane,...

- **Options published:** yes

### Lot Lot 11: Lot 11: Yorkshire Group
- **Lot id:** `Lot 11`
- **Status:** active
- **CPV codes:** 75231200, 75231230, 79634000, 80510000, 80530000, 80531000
- **Delivery regions:** UKE

- **Estimated Value:** £7,650,000
- **Description:** Lot 11 consists of the following Prisons:
HMP Askham Grange, Askham Richard, York, YO23 3FT
HMP Doncaster, Marshgate, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, DN5 8UX
HMP Hatfield, Lancaster Drive, Lindholme, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, DN7 6FA
HMP Hull, Hedon Ro...

- **Options published:** yes

### Lot Lot 2: Lot 2: Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Norfolk Group and Hertfordshire, Essex and Suffolk Group
- **Lot id:** `Lot 2`
- **Status:** active
- **CPV codes:** 75231200, 75231230, 79634000, 80510000, 80530000, 80531000
- **Delivery regions:** UKH

- **Estimated Value:** £8,300,000
- **Description:** Lot 2 consists of the following Prisons:
HMP Bedford, St Loves, Bedford, MK40 1HG
HMP Bure, Jaguar Drive, Badersfield, Norwich, Norfolk, NR10 5GB
HMP Chelmsford, 200 Springfield Road, Chelmsford, Essex, CM2 6LQ
HMP Highpoint, Stradishall, Newmarket, ...

- **Options published:** yes

### Lot Lot 3: Lot 3: Cumbria and Lancashire Group
- **Lot id:** `Lot 3`
- **Status:** active
- **CPV codes:** 75231200, 75231230, 79634000, 80510000, 80530000
- **Delivery regions:** UKD

- **Estimated Value:** £4,500,000
- **Description:** Lot 3 consists of the following Prisons:
HMP Garth, Ulnes Walton, Leyland, Preston, PR26 8NE
HMP Haverigg, North Lane, Millom, LA18 4NA
HMP Kirkham, Freckleton Road, Kirkham, Preston, Lancashire, PR4 2RN
HMP Lancaster Farms, Stone Row Head, Off Quern...

- **Options published:** yes

### Lot Lot 4: Lot 4: Tees and Wear Group
- **Lot id:** `Lot 4`
- **Status:** active
- **CPV codes:** 75231200, 75231230, 79634000, 80510000, 80530000, 80531000
- **Delivery regions:** UKC, UKE

- **Estimated Value:** £5,240,000
- **Description:** Lot 4 consists of the following Prisons:
HMP Deerbolt, Bowes Road, Barnard Castle, County Durham, DL12 9BG
HMP Durham, Old Elvet, Durham, DH1 3HU
HMP Frankland, Brasside, Durham, DH1 5YD
HMP Full Sutton, Moor Lane, Full Sutton, York, YO41 1PS
HMP Hol...

- **Options published:** yes

### Lot Lot 5:: Lot 5: East Midlands Group & North Midlands Group
- **Lot id:** `Lot 5:`
- **Status:** active
- **CPV codes:** 75231200, 75231230, 79634000, 80510000, 80530000
- **Delivery regions:** UKF, UKG

- **Estimated Value:** £7,350,000
- **Description:** Lot 5 consists of the following Prisons:
HMP Drake Hall, Eccleshall, Staffordshire, ST21 6LQ
HMP Foston Hall, Foston, Derby, Derbyshire, DE65 5DN
HMP Gartree, Gallow Field Road, Market Harborough, Leicestershire, LE16 7RP
HMP Leicester, 116 Welford R...

- **Options published:** yes

### Lot Lot 6: Lot 6: Greater Manchester, Merseyside and Cheshire Group
- **Lot id:** `Lot 6`
- **Status:** active
- **CPV codes:** 75231200, 75231230, 79634000, 80510000, 80530000, 80531000
- **Delivery regions:** UKD

- **Estimated Value:** £4,700,000
- **Description:** Lot 6 consists of the following Prisons:
HMP Buckley Hall, Buckley Hall Road, Rochdale, Lancashire, OL12 9DP
HMP Hindley, Barracks Road, Bickershaw, Wigan, WN2 5TH
HMP Liverpool, 68 Hornby Road, Liverpool, L9 3DF
HMP Manchester, 1 Southall Street, Ma...

- **Options published:** yes

### Lot Lot 7: Lot 7: Kent, Surrey and Sussex Group
- **Lot id:** `Lot 7`
- **Status:** active
- **CPV codes:** 75231200, 75231230, 79634000, 80510000, 80530000, 80531000
- **Delivery regions:** UKJ

- **Estimated Value:** £6,420,000
- **Description:** Lot 7 consists of the following Prisons:
HMP Coldingley, Shaftesbury Road, Bisley, Woking, Surrey, GU24 9EX
HMP Downview, Sutton Lane, Sutton, Surrey, SM2 5PD
HMP East Sutton Park, Sutton Valence, Maidstone, Kent, ME17 3DF
HMP Elmley, Church Road, Ea...

- **Options published:** yes

### Lot Lot 8: Lot 8: London Group
- **Lot id:** `Lot 8`
- **Status:** active
- **CPV codes:** 75231200, 75231230, 79634000, 80510000, 80530000, 80531000
- **Delivery regions:** UKI

- **Estimated Value:** £9,810,000
- **Description:** Lot 8 consists of the following Prisons:
HMP Belmarsh, Western Way, Thamesmead, London, SE28 0EB
HMP Brixton, Jebb Avenue, Brixton, London, SW2 5XF
HMP Feltham, Bedfont Road, Feltham, Middlesex, TW13 4ND
HMP Isis, Western Way, Thamesmead, SE28 0NZ
HM...

- **Options published:** yes

### Lot Lot 9: Lot 9: South Central Group
- **Lot id:** `Lot 9`
- **Status:** active
- **CPV codes:** 75231200, 75231230, 79634000, 80510000, 80530000, 80531000
- **Delivery regions:** UKG, UKJ

- **Estimated Value:** £5,330,000
- **Description:** Lot 9 consists of the following Prisons:
HMP Aylesbury, Bierton Road, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP20 1EH
HMP Bullingdon, Bicester, Oxon, OX25 1PZ
HMP Grendon, Grendon Underwood, Buckinghamshire, HP18 0TL
HMP Huntercombe, Nuffield, Henley-on-Thames,...

- **Options published:** yes

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (11)
- **Award:** CIAG Lot 4 (active)
  - Award id: `041311-2024-24571-4`
  - Supplier(s): **Ingeus UK Ltd**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-13820`
  - Value: £2,664,409 † (exc. VAT)

- **Award:** CIAG Lot 11 (active)
  - Award id: `041311-2024-24573-11`
  - Supplier(s): **Ingeus UK Ltd**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-13820`
  - Value: £3,750,186 † (exc. VAT)

- **Award:** CIAG Lot 1 (active)
  - Award id: `041311-2024-24574-1`
  - Supplier(s): **Seetec Business Technology Centre Limited**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-131380`
  - Value: £2,778,802 † (exc. VAT)

- **Award:** CIAG Lot 7 (active)
  - Award id: `041311-2024-24575-7`
  - Supplier(s): **Seetec Business Technology Centre Limited**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-131380`
  - Value: £3,266,548 † (exc. VAT)

- **Award:** CIAG Lot 9 (active)
  - Award id: `041311-2024-24576-9`
  - Supplier(s): **Seetec Business Technology Centre Limited**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-131380`
  - Value: £2,713,158 † (exc. VAT)

- **Award:** CIAG Lot 2 (active)
  - Award id: `041311-2024-24577-2`
  - Supplier(s): **Get Skills Employment & Training Ltd**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-133514`
  - Value: £4,029,591 † (exc. VAT)

- **Award:** CIAG Lot 3 (active)
  - Award id: `041311-2024-24578-3`
  - Supplier(s): **Career Connect**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-133515`
  - Value: £2,238,875 † (exc. VAT)

- **Award:** CIAG Lot 5 (active)
  - Award id: `041311-2024-24580-5`
  - Supplier(s): **Career Connect**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-133515`
  - Value: £3,694,841 † (exc. VAT)

- **Award:** CIAG Lot 6 (active)
  - Award id: `041311-2024-24581-6`
  - Supplier(s): **The Growth Company Limited**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-22779`
  - Value: £2,290,055 † (exc. VAT)

- **Award:** CIAG Lot 8 (active)
  - Award id: `041311-2024-24582-8`
  - Supplier(s): **Get Skills Employment & Training Ltd**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-133514`
  - Value: £4,963,018 † (exc. VAT)

- **Award:** CIAG Lot 10 (active)
  - Award id: `041311-2024-24583-10`
  - Supplier(s): **The Growth Company Limited**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-22779`
  - Value: £3,708,237 † (exc. VAT)

> † value taken from the contract record; the award notice published none.

## Contracts (11)
- **Contract:** CIAG Lot 9 (active)
  - Signed Value: £2,713,158
  - Signed Date: 09/12/2024

- **Contract:** CIAG Lot 3 (active)
  - Signed Value: £2,238,875
  - Signed Date: 09/12/2024

- **Contract:** CIAG Lot 5 (active)
  - Signed Value: £3,694,841
  - Signed Date: 09/12/2024

- **Contract:** CIAG Lot 6 (active)
  - Signed Value: £2,290,055
  - Signed Date: 09/12/2024

- **Contract:** CIAG Lot 10 (active)
  - Signed Value: £3,708,237
  - Signed Date: 09/12/2024

- **Contract:** CIAG Lot 1 (active)
  - Signed Value: £2,778,802
  - Signed Date: 04/12/2024

- **Contract:** CIAG Lot 7 (active)
  - Signed Value: £3,266,548
  - Signed Date: 04/12/2024

- **Contract:** CIAG Lot 2 (active)
  - Signed Value: £4,029,591
  - Signed Date: 04/12/2024

- **Contract:** CIAG Lot 8 (active)
  - Signed Value: £4,963,018
  - Signed Date: 04/12/2024

- **Contract:** CIAG Lot 4 (active)
  - Signed Value: £2,664,409
  - Signed Date: 29/11/2024

- **Contract:** CIAG Lot 11 (active)
  - Signed Value: £3,750,186
  - Signed Date: 28/11/2024

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F041311-2024)
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