Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2019-10-08
Buyer: Home Office
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 79140000 | 79530000 | 79540000 | 80500000 | 85100000: Health services
Estimated value: 650000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2019-11-11
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Contract for Services to Support Migrants Currently Living in the Community Who Do Not Have Permission to Live in the UK
The Authority is seeking to work with partners to develop services to support migrants who currently live in the community and who do not have permission to live in the UK. Such services shall include assistance to resolve their immigration case comprising legal advice and pastoral support to assist with their integration in the UK or with leaving the UK.
This pilot will be supporting up to 50 migrants at any one time. Foreign National Offenders (FNOs) will not be eligible for inclusion in this pilot.
The Authority is seeking to work with partners to develop services to support migrants who currently live in the community and who do not have permission to live in the UK. Such services shall include assistance to resolve their immigration case comprising legal advice and pastoral support to assist with their integration in the UK or with leaving the UK. These service models will be tested through a series of pilots, each running for 2 years.
The service is framed around the testing of a hypothesis of five pillars of appropriate personal decision making, which are listed as follows:
— Personal Stability - fundamental position of stability from which to make difficult, life-changing decisions (housing, living costs, safety, healthcare),
— Reliable Information - accurate, comprehensive, personally relevant information on UK immigration and immigration case including legal advice,
— Community Support - consistent pastoral support (case manager), and community support, to enable individuals to feel connected, listened to and to converse with other people in their community,
— Prepared Futures - planning for the future, finding positive ways forward for individuals e.g. skills development in line with original immigration objective.
There will be an assumption that users of the pilot have sufficient personal stability to make appropriate personal decisions about their future. Their accommodation and living costs needs (personal stability pillar) will already be met by, for instance, a support network of family or friends in the UK. This pilot will therefore focus on a service developing support to meet individual's needs represented by the other four pillars as listed above.
The pilot will last for two years, supporting up to 50 migrants at any one time. The pilot will be fully inclusive of the protected characteristics as set out in the Equalities Act 2010. Foreign National Offenders (FNOs) will NOT be eligible for inclusion in this pilot.
Bids are welcome from not-for-profit organisations and other organisations that are able to demonstrate sufficient experience in providing support:
— As described by the pillars -reliable information, community support, active engagement and prepared future needs.
Joint bids are welcome, where organisations can partner up to cover different requirements within the service.
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 agreement; make any changes it sees as reasonable to the competition; remove and/or amend element(s) from the service description; and accept or reject any tender.


Award value: 650000