Probation services

Tender description

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; — Planning for and providing and facilitating access to resettlement support. 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. Launch events: Market engagement launch events have been scheduled for: — Thursday 2nd August in London, — Friday 3rd August in Manchester. Please register your interest to attend the launch event in London at the following link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/probation-services-launch-event-london-tickets-48413522148 Please register your interest to attend the launch event in Manchester at the following link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/probation-services-launch-event-manchester-tickets-48413916327 The password to access both events is PROBATION2018.