Official UK procurement notice
To be determined · UK public procurement notice
Authority: Ministry of Justice (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThis PIN is being issued for initial Stage 1 market engagement purposes only. Stage 2 of the market engagement will be an event held in Autumn.
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is retendering the provision of HMPPS Prisoner Family and Significant Other Services in England and Wales public prison estate It is recognised that supporting and maintaining links between offenders and their families can help reduce re-offending. Doing so can contribute to tackling intergenerational offending by addressing the poor outcomes faced by children of offenders. Visitor centres offer support to Families and Significant Others. They offer signposting to a range of support services, decrease the stress associated with visiting a prison establishment and facilitate inter agency working. The visitor centre services are delivered throughout most of the estate, the level of service and size of resourcing is largely dependent on local need.
The MoJ is keen to explore different specification components to ensure family services provisions address the recommendations from Lord Farmer’s 2017 and 2019 reviews (links below), as well as exploring greater integration with probation reforms, explained in detail here: www.gov.uk/guidance/strengtheni… ↗
Lord Farmer Review (2017) – The Importance of Strengthening Prisoners’ Family Ties to Prevent Reoffending and Reduce Intergenerational Crime. Link: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/s… ↗
Lord Farmer Review (2019) – The Importance of Strengthening Female Offenders’ Family and Other Relationships to Prevent Reoffending and Reduce Intergenerational Crime. Link: www.gov.uk/government/publicati… ↗
CPV: Services related to the detention or rehabilitation of criminals
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1As part of an options analysis, MoJ is inviting potential providers to participate in…Planned
As part of an options analysis, MoJ is inviting potential providers to participate in a market questionnaire in support of developing the specification and procurement approach, as far as permitted by the Public Contracts Regulations 2015.
MoJ is seeking information for the following reasons:
- To better understand the current market capability and capacity
- To better understand costings for the different types of services
- To inform the specification development and options
- To identify any market concerns and potential barriers to entry
- Opportunities for social value
For providers that are interested and wish to complete the questionnaire the link is below:
forms.office.com/r/BeZ2K68mmc ↗
The purpose of this PIN is to alert the market to pre-engagement activity only and does not commit the Authority to launch any formal procurement procedure.
The deadline for questionnaire responses will be 17:00 on 6th July 2021. Once responses have been considered internally, Stage 2 of the market engagement, an event, will be held in Autumn 2021. To register your interest for the market engagement event please email [email protected] with ‘Family Services Market Engagement Event’ in the subject line.
MoJ reserves the right to supplement and vary the conduct of the prior engagement process. Where MoJ var the process, it will act transparently and treat all suppliers who have expressed an interest equally.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Past planning notice
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 15 Jun 2021, 22:45 BST
- Last source update
- 15 Jun 2021, 22:45 BST
- FTS notice number
2021/S 000-013553- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-02bc64Find a Tender
Publisher note: This will be a non-competitive, information gathering exercise, where interested providers are invited to respond. The services within scope of the Authority’s anticipated requirements are listed within Schedule 3 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (PCR) and so pursuant to Regulation 74 of the PCR will be subject to the Light Touch Regime under which the Authority is not obliged to comply with the full requirements of the PCR. The Authority will comply with its obligations of equal treatment, transparency, non-discrimination and proportionality during the procurement.
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
14 Jun 2021 → 15 Jun 2021 · 2 dates- Tender notice expected14 Jun 2021, 00:00 BST
- Notice published15 Jun 2021, 22:45 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.