Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-04-21
Buyer: Home Office
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Competitive procedure with negotiation
CPV classification: 45112700 | 55500000 | 60130000 | 75122000 | 79000000
Estimated value: 92330000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2020-05-11
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Contract for the Provision of Operational, Management and Maintenance Services at Dungavel House Immigration Removal Centre
Contract for the provision of operational, management and maintenance services at Dungavel House Immigration Removal Centre.
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 one of 7 Immigration Removal Centres, 2 residential Short-Term Holding Facilities, a 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 Dungavel House Immigration Removal Centre. Dungavel House has a maximum operating capacity of 200 and accommodates both male and female detainees.
The requirement is to provide detention services for occupancy of 125 detainee places at Dungavel House. The maximum capacity of 200 detainee places allows for potential increase in future occupancy requirements. The estimated total contract value, if the increase from 125 to 200 detainees occurs, may rise from GBP 92.33 m to GBP 98.42 m (approx.).
The estimated total contract value for the 125 detainee places covers detention services including (without limitation): overall management of the site, security and guarding services; safeguarding and welfare; well-being and cleaning; local escorting and hospital bed watches; recreational, sporting and educational facilities; healthcare provisions, catering and shop services; Religious and welfare facilities; provision of furniture and equipment; facilities management and cleaning services; and landscaping services. the same applies, in the event an increase in detainee places occurs.
The length of contract will be 8 years from service commencement, with options to extend, for up to a further 2 years.
The evaluation process will be detailed within the standard questionnaire (SQ) documentation. The authority intends to invite up to 5 respondents to tender, provided a sufficient number meet the authority's requirements.
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.
For the avoidance of doubt, please note that respondents are required to express an interest separately for this competition regardless of their involvement in 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 using the Jaggaer eSourcing Portal. The eSourcing Portal is an online application that allows suppliers to create and submit their Selection Questionnaire responses to any requests for information, requests for quotes, or requests for proposals via the internet rather than in paper form.
To participate in this procurement, participants must first be registered on the eSourcing Suite. If you have not yet registered this can be done online at https://homeoffice.app.jaggaer.com/web/login.html by following the link to Register.
All suppliers interested in learning more about any potential contract opportunities described in this contract notice should submit their details (company name, lead contact name, lead contact email address and telephone number), in the first instance, to the following address:. IRCDungavelProc@homeoffice.gov.uk
Arrangements will then be made for registered suppliers to access the eSourcing Portal for this opportunity so that they can provide a signed non-disclosure agreement to enable access to the Dungavel IRC Procurement Documents and SQ event on the eSourcing Portal.
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 11 May 2020, to allow sufficient time for the tender administrative process and submission of responses. 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. On receipt of an email detailed above, the authority will either confirm receipt of an NDA as part of market engagement or provide access to the NDA document through the eSourcing portal. If required, the authority will expect participants to download and reattach a signed copy of the NDA to the event. When saving the ‘pdf’ document, please ensure that you include the participant organisation's name in the filename. Once a correctly signed NDA is received by the authority, participants will be invited to the standard selection questionnaire and will be able to access all of the project documentation. The closing date for submissions will be 11 a.m. on Friday 15 May 2020. SQ clarification requests must be submitted no later than 11 a.m. on Friday 11 May 2020.


Award value: 92330000