Security services

Tender description

Contract for the provision of operational, management and maintenance services at Brook House Immigration Removal Centre and Tinsley House Immigration Removal Centre/Pre-Departure Accommodation. The authority is responsible, under the Immigration Act 1971 and the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999, for detaining and/or enforcing the removal of certain persons (detainees), being persons detained under the 1971 Act and assigned by the authority to an Immigration Removal Centre from the United Kingdom. At any one time, approximately 3 400 detainees are held overnight in one of seven Immigration Removal Centres, two residential Short-Term Holding Facilities, Pre-Departure Accommodation (PDA), prisons and police stations across the United Kingdom. In addition, persons can be detained for shorter periods of time in short term holding facilities (rooms) at reporting centres, air and sea ports, including locations overseas at the juxtaposed controls in Calais and Coquelles. The authority sought a commercial partner to provide services at Brook House Immigration Removal Centre and Tinsley House Immigration Removal Centre/Pre-Departure Accommodation. Services at the IRCs/PDA include (but are not limited to): Overall management of the immigration removal centres/PDA; Security and guarding services; safeguarding and welfare; well-being and cleaning; local escorting and hospital bed watches; recreational, sporting and educational facilities; catering and shop services; religious and welfare facilities; provision of furniture and equipment; and Facilities management and cleaning services; landscaping services. tailored welfare service for the pre-departure accommodation to include social worker access.