Market Engagement - HMP and YOI Parc Learning and Skills Provision

Tender description

Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is retendering the Learning and Skills provision for HMP and YOI Parc, Bridgend South Wales. HMP & YOI Parc opened in November 1997, with a maximum capacity of 2057 individuals, though we initially intend to contract to a capacity of 1639 adult prisoner places as well as 60 places in the children's' unit (sometimes referred to as the young person's unit or YPU). HMP Parc plays a fundamental part in the prison system. For the bulk of the adult population, the regime predominantly aims to prepare individuals for release and resettlement into the community through building, maintaining or improving family and community ties and providing access to local community services. HMP and YOI Parc's vision is "to be the best performing prison education and training facility in Wales". Their ethos represents a commitment to supporting the learner through their sentence, understanding that learning and resettlement support extends throughout the learners offending journey and beyond into the community. This positively aligns with the strategic objectives of the Welsh Government and MoJ. The purpose of this engagement is to secure wider market involvement in development of the learning and skills provision in HMP Parc, and to assess the level of appetite from different education providers in the delivery of such provision, as well as test with the market the potential delivery and procurement models. The Authority plans to hold a market engagement event via MS Teams on the 27th May 2021 from 10:00 - 12:30. This will include more specific information on the learning and skills objectives and requirements. At the Market Engagement event we will present information on specific issues e.g. payment & performance mechanism/incentivisation, procurement process, risk allocation, learning environment ownership and planned YOI changes. Suppliers interested in participating should confirm their interest by 3pm on 25th May 2021 by email to the Prison Education commercial team at ccmd_education_retender@justice.gov.uk clearly stating HMP and YOI Parc Learning and Skills Retender in the subject line. The form of response should be limited to the provision of a single point of contact (full company name, contact name, job title, e-mail address and telephone number). The Authority will then issue invitations to all interested parties, confirming the timings and MS Teams link to the event.