Mining, basic metals and related products

Tender description

PSPI manage industries in 95 prisons in England and Wales, including some private sector prisons, and currently operate 465 workshops employing 1056 staff and around 11,500 prisoners and detainees. This includes 17 Engineering and Windows work-shops employing over 500 prisoners. Manufacturing products for the internal market, MOD and commercial companies. Disciplines include: welding and fabrication, sheet metal, CNC machining and powder painting in our engineering workshops, in our windows manufacturing workshops we produce windows, telephone boxes, tilt and turn windows, greenhouses, anti-finger trap doors, amongst other products. The purpose of PSPI is to help reduce the potential for prisoners to reoffend and to help PSP deliver Decent Regimes. Allied to that purpose are two main aims: To provide employment for prisoners, enabling them to experience real work, ‘on the job training’, and life skills in the preparation for their release; and, To produce high quality goods. Varying grades of non-ferrous material, mainly aluminium. To be supplied in various sizes of sheet and bar. Supply of various grades of sheet steel supplied in a variety of sizes and thicknesses. Supply of different grades of steel in varying sizes of steel welded wire mesh. The supply of steel in varying shapes and sizes. Su8pply of various shapes and sizes of ERW tube.