Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2018-07-31
Buyer: Ministry of Justice
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 75100000 | 75200000 | 75230000 | 75231200 | 75231230
Estimated value: 350000000 GBP

Technical requirements: The Ministry of Justice is re-tendering probation services for low and medium risk offenders and the services to be procured are:
— Offender management of those with low and medium-risk of serious harm subject to community orders, prison sentences, suspended sentence orders, licences and Post Sentence Supervision. Offender management includes assessment and risk management, sentence planning, delivery of the sentence of the court, motivation of cases to comply and make progress, oversight of interventions to promote rehabilitation and resettlement, public protection activity and enforcement;
— Provision of unpaid work schemes (also known as community payback) and all accredited Programmes (except those exclusively targeted at the National Probation Service caseload);
— Co-ordination and delivery and facilitation of access to rehabilitation services, including as part of rehabilitation activity requirements;
The Ministry of Justice is currently consulting on the future of the probation system in England and Wales, and subject to the outcome of that consultation we are minded to reorganise the current system in England so that CRC and NPS areas are aligned, and will potentially move into 10 contract package areas in England instead of current 20. Please note a separate Prior Information Notice has been issued for Wales.
The procurement activity is expected to commence in early 2019 with the new contracts to be operational from the end of 2020. This also includes a transition period of approximate six months.
The Ministry of Justice is undertaking service and contract design activity and would encourage the inputs of interested suppliers via structured market engagement activity over August and September 2018. We will commence with two launch events to outline the vision for probation services and new contracts and continue with a series of thematic discussions to engage the market different element of the service and contract design.
Additional market engagement activity with voluntary sector organisations operating in the justice sector will be undertaken in collaboration with Clinks.
It is our intention that the services being awarded are listed within Schedule 3 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 and pursuant to regulation 74 of those Regulations will be subject to the Light Touch Regime.
This PIN is being issued for Market Testing and Engagement purposes and details pertaining to the proposed procurement will be set out in the Contract Notice that we currently anticipate will be issued towards the end of 2018.
Presently, the total value of the contract is indicative per annum and based on an estimated range between 300 000 000 and 400 000 000. This will similarly be confirmed in the Contract Notice.
We would request that organisations only attend one event and limit the number of attendees to 2 per organisation. We will operate on a first come first served basis and therefore we encourage interested suppliers to register early if they wish to attend the launch events in London or Manchester.
If you are unable to attend in person but would like to attend the launch event remotely please e-mail probationcommercialteam@justice.gov.uk
We are currently exploring whether remote access can be made available for both events and we will be able to confirm next week.
A supplier briefing pack will be issued to all suppliers who will have registered for the launch events by Wednesday 1.8.2018.


Award value: 350000000