Awarded contract

HMPPS Prisoner, Family and Significant Other Support Services Contracts

Details

Value
£43,579,711.59
Duration
5 years
Topic
Prison services
Published
16 September 2022

Tender description

The 50 contracts awarded will deliver prison visits for families and significant others across 101 prisons in England and Wales. The delivery will include: Visit room refreshments Visit play Visit meet and greet Family engagement and advice Visit enrichment activity Support for secure video calls Services for prisoners without family or significant other contact. Prison Rules require prisons to actively encourage prisoners to maintain outside contacts and meaningful family ties. This is integral to the prisoner's Right to Family Life as well as their rehabilitation. Visits are crucial to sustaining relationships with close relatives, partners and friends, where appropriate, and help prisoners maintain links with the community.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Award published16 September 2022
    Current notice
  2. Completed: Award date1 October 2022
  3. Next: Contract expiry date30 September 2027in 11 months

About the buyer

The Ministry of Justice is a central government ministerial department with its own Commercial Standards team providing procurement guidance. Much of this procurement flows through framework agreements and dynamic purchasing systems. HM Courts and Tribunals Service, HM Prison and Probation Service and the Legal Aid Agency are the department's main delivery bodies.

Over the past 5 years, most of the Ministry of Justice's contract awards have been in education and training, IT services and public administration and defence.

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