Rehabilitation and Resettlement Dynamic Framework

Tender description

The Ministry of Justice intends to tender intervention and rehabilitation services in England and Wales. These services form part of the probation services. The services to be procured are expected to comprise: - Rehabilitative Interventions, delivered as part of Rehabilitation Activity Requirements (RARs); - Resettlement Interventions; - Provision of Unpaid Work (or community payback); and - Accredited Programmes. Enabling services & interventions to support offenders' desistance will also be available to procure via the dynamic framework. This Contract Finder Notice has been issued for Rehabilitative Interventions & Resettlement Interventions. A separate notice has been issued for Innovation Partners to deliver Accredited Programmes & Unpaid Work & support the NPS to identify and deliver wider innovation. This Notice is being issued for Market Engagement purposes only. Any information provided is indicative only of the Authority's current intentions and is subject to change. Additional information: The Authority will conduct a series of market engagement events between May and October 2019 to inform service and contract design, all interested suppliers are invited to attend. Details regarding initial events can be found below; additional events will be publicised in due course. If you would like to register to hear more about these events, please email ProbationDynamicFramework@justice.gov.uk Launch events (28th to 30th May) The launch events will outline: - Our vision for probation services and what we want to achieve - Indicative procurement timelines These will be joint events covering two procurements: 1) Accredited Programmes and Unpaid Work; and 2) Rehabilitative and resettlement interventions. Dates have been scheduled for: - London - 28th May 2019 (10:30 - 13:00) - Cardiff - 29th May 2019 (10:30 - 13:00) - Manchester - 30th May 2019 (10:30 - 13:00) If you are unable to attend in person but would like to attend remotely, the launch event in London will be broadcast via webinar. Webinars: Overview of Services Webinars, providing an overview of the services to be procured are scheduled for the week commencing the 3rd of June. We will repeat the same event twice. Please register for all launch events and webinars at the following link: http://probationlaunch.eventbrite.com The procurement activity for the dynamic framework is expected to commence in late 2019 with the dynamic framework operational from the end of July 2020.