Prior information notice
This notice is for prior information only
Section I: Contracting
authority
I.1) Name and addresses
Ministry of Justice
102 Petty France
London
SW1H 9AJ
UK
Contact person: People Services Team
Telephone: +44 02033343555
E-mail: MoJProcurementLearningandDevelopment@justice.gov.uk
NUTS: UK
Internet address(es)
Main address: www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice
I.3) Communication
Additional information can be obtained from the abovementioned address
I.4) Type of the contracting authority
Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions
I.5) Main activity
General public services
Section II: Object
II.1) Scope of the procurement
II.1.1) Title
Level 5 Diploma in Education and Training training
II.1.2) Main CPV code
80000000
II.1.3) Type of contract
Services
II.1.4) Short description
** Please note this is not a call for competition **
This is a Prior Information Notice (PIN) for a market engagement event for the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) to provide details of a project to provide approximately 32 'prison staff' with the opportunity to be trained to achieve the Level 5 Diploma in Education and Training.
II.1.5) Estimated total value
Value excluding VAT:
75 000.00
GBP
II.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots:
No
II.2) Description
II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
80400000
80420000
80500000
80511000
80530000
80570000
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UK
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
** Please note this is not a call for competition **
This is a Prior Information Notice (PIN) for a market engagement event for the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) to provide details of a project to provide approximately 32 'prison staff' with the opportunity to be trained to achieve the Level 5 Diploma in Education and Training.
The Prison Strategy White Paper 2021 committed to delivering a Prisoner Education Service (PES) which equips prisoners with the numeracy, literacy, skills, and qualifications they need to get jobs or apprenticeships after they leave custody.
A core aim of the PES workforce team is supporting the HMPPS Education, Skills and Work (ESW) workforce to deliver a high-quality service, that supports outcomes for prisoners on release and improves the culture by raising awareness of ESW across HMPPS.
Under the PES programme a new role of Head of Education, Skills and Work (HoESW) was created to further enhance prisoner education provisions within establishments.
The HoESW role has a technical requirement of “A PGCE, Cert Ed or Level 5 in Education and Training” for applicants.
For staff working in prison education, skills, and work functions, the HoESW role will be the next step in their career progression and the PES qualifications offer is seeking to offer the Level 5 Diploma in Education & Training to enable staff to gain the qualification they require for career progression.
This event is to explain the high-level requirements of delivering the Level 5 Diploma in Education and Training to the 32 staff working in various roles (catering, physical education, industrial and industries environment and broadly across learning skills).
The 32 individuals to be trained are based at 27 prisons across the UK, so having full geographical coverage is an important part of the requirement especially for the observation sessions.
The requirement would be for a blended course combining face-to-face and virtual aspects with tutor contact via email and phone. The training materials and content would all be available online.
A flexible approach to timings with advance notice given for any fixed sessions to allow arrangements to be made to attend. Reasonable accommodations would need to be addressed so learning materials are available learners.
The aim of the event is to: - outline our plans, provide interested parties with prior notice of an impending procurement, receive feedback from providers on the plans and advise of next steps.
We would like to invite prospective bidders to attend a pre-market engagement event on 'Tuesday 9th April 2024 at 10am via Teams. The session will be led by the MOJ.
The Agenda for the session is as follows
- Introductions
- Overview of the MOJ and the service required
- Procurement Overview
- Questions and Answers
- Next Steps
Please see the Additional Information section on how to register for the event on Tuesday 9th April at 10am.
II.3) Estimated date of publication of contract notice:
31/05/2024
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1) Description
IV.1.8) Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement:
Yes
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.3) Additional information
The MoJ would like providers to express their interest in this requirement by 5th April 2024 at 12.00 noon British Summer Time (Invites will be sent out later that day) by sending a message via our e-sourcing platform (Jaggaer):-
https://ministryofjusticecommercial.bravosolution.co.uk/web/login.html
Please include the following detail in your message;
- Quoting Reference - Level 5 Diploma in Education and Training Reference 'PQQ_419'
- Full name
- Company/organisation name
- Contact details (E-mail and phone number)
All responders (With a limit of 3 attendees per providers) will receive an invite to the Teams event on Tuesday 9th April 2024 at 10am.
If you do have an account, please register on Jaggaer to create an account. If you have problems registering please contact 0845 0100 132 or e-mail esourcing@justice.gov.uk
This notice is for Information only and the Authority reserves the right to not proceed to tender. Additionally the Authority (MoJ) reserves the right to discontinue the tendering process and not to award the contract.
The information contained in this notice, including information relating to the nature and scope of the requirements, the estimated value, the service classification of this requirement or the list of CPV codes, is only indicative of current thinking and is neither exhaustive nor binding and the Authority reserves the right at it’s absolute discretion to amend it at the time of issue of any further notices or at any other time. The publication of this notice in no way obliges the Authority to commence any competitive tender process. The Authority is not / shall not be liable for any costs incurred by those expressing an interest in participating in this market engagement exercise. Any contracts are subject to the relevant legal and Cabinet Office controls and policies.
The Authority reserves the right to source items included through other means (e.g. an existing contract or framework).
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice
20/03/2024