Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2019-03-12
Buyer: Home Office
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Competitive procedure with negotiation
CPV classification: 45112700 | 55500000 | 60130000 | 79710000: Security services | 79993000
Estimated value: 210000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2019-04-08
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Contract for the Provision of Operational, Management and Maintenance Services at Brook House Immigration Removal Centre and Tinsley House Immigration Removal Centre/Pre-Departure Accommodation
Contract for the provision of operational, management and maintenance services at Brook House Immigration Removal Centre and Tinsley House Immigration Removal Centre/Pre-Departure Accommodation.
The Authority is responsible, under the Immigration Act 1971 and the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999, for detaining and/or enforcing the removal of certain persons (Detainees), being persons detained under the 1971 Act and assigned by the Authority to an Immigration Removal Centre from the United Kingdom.
At any one time, approximately 3 400 detainees are held overnight in 1 of 7 Immigration Removal Centres, 2 residential Short Term Holding Facilities, Pre-Departure Accommodation (PDA), prisons and police stations across the United Kingdom. In addition, persons can be detained for shorter periods of time in Short Term Holding Facilities (Rooms) at Reporting Centres, air and sea ports, including locations overseas at the juxtaposed controls in Calais and Coquelles.
The Authority seeks a commercial partner to provide services at Brook House Immigration Removal Centre and Tinsley House Immigration Removal Centre/Pre-Departure Accommodation.
The evaluation process will be detailed within the request for information (standard questionnaire) documentation. The Authority intends to invite up to 5 respondents, provided sufficient respondents meet the Authority's requirements to be invited to tender.
The Authority is not responsible for any bidding costs incurred by potential suppliers in respect of this procurement. The Authority reserves the right to abandon the competitive process and not award any contract; make any changes it sees as reasonable to the competition; remove and/or amend element(s) from the scope of the requirements; and accept or reject any tender.
Respondents are requested to express an interest by Monday 1.4.2019; the process for expression of interest and requesting further information is set out below.
For the avoidance of doubt, please note that Respondents are required to express an interest separately for this competition regardless of their involvement in the previous market engagement activities for this project. Any such involvement does not constitute an expression of interest for the competition advertised in this notice.
The Home Office uses an eSourcing toolkit to enable its sourcing activities to be conducted over the internet. In order to express an interest, please follow the steps set out below.
The procurement will be managed electronically via the crown commercial service's e-Sourcing Suite. To participate in this procurement, participants must first be registered on the e-Sourcing Suite. If you have not yet registered on the e-Sourcing Suite, this can be done online at https://gpsesourcing.cabinetoffice.gov.uk by following the link “Register for CCS e-Sourcing”.
Please note that, to register, you must have a valid DUNS number (as provided by Dun and Bradstreet) for the organisation which you are registering and who will be entering into a contract if invited to do so. Full instructions for registration and use of the system can be found at http://gps.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/i-am
Once registered, organisations wishing to participate in the tender must send an email to: IRCsprocurement@homeoffice.gov.uk
The email should be entitled “Gatwick IRCs Procurement — Expression of Interest” and contain the following details: your organisation's name, your contact name, email address and telephone number. Any expressions of interest not submitted in the required format (or containing the requested information) may be rejected. Participants are requested to express interest by Monday 1.4.2019, to allow sufficient time for the tender administrative process and submission of bids.
The Authority requires new Participants to sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) in order to be invited to participate in the competition for this project.


Award value: 210000000