Contracts Finder notice
Award of a call off contract under the Prison Education Dynamic Purchasing System for Low Level Literacy provision for prisoners at HMP Ford
Authority: Ministry of Justice
CPV: Education and training services (80000000)
Published DPS value£15,024Agreement value, exc. VAT; may be a ceiling, not a single purchase
Contract ends 17 Dec 2026
Awarded to Shannon Trust
Contract starts 18 Jun 2026
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionAward of a call off contract under the Prison Education Dynamic Purchasing System for Low Level Literacy provision for prisoners at HMP Ford. The supplier will design a programme to support, coach, train and provide structured supervision for peer mentors. The Prisoner Peer Mentors, are involved with the delivery of one-to-one support for those individuals with very low literacy and low numeracy (below Entry Level 3 English / Maths). The aim of the services is to upskill learners that can then potentially join Functional Skills courses to ensure continuity of learning and continual progress.
Published procurement details
- Procedure
- Call-off from a dynamic purchasing system
- Buyer reference
- tender_529141/1614117
- Category
- Services
- Tender status
- Complete
- Award status
- Active
- Suitable for SMEs
- Yes
- Suitable for voluntary, community and social enterprises
- Yes
- Tender deadline
- Procurement method
- Selective
- Item 1: Delivery locations as published
- South East, United Kingdom
Key dates
Published dates- Award decision18 Jun 2026
- Contract starts18 Jun 2026
- Notice published25 Sept 2026
- Contract ends17 Dec 2026
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
- Ministry of JusticeContracting authority
Suppliers named on the notice
- Shannon TrustSupplier
- Identifier
- 1117249 · GB-CHC
- Voluntary, community or social enterprise
- Yes
- Business size
- SME
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
Source record
- Source
- Contracts Finder
- Notice language
- en
- Release reference
- ocds-b5fd17-36503239-1a31-4239-91d8-3ff357860d79-2026-09-25T09:28:18+01:00
- Published
- 25 Sept 2026
- Latest update
- 25 Sept 2026
- Procedure reference
- ocds-b5fd17-36503239-1a31-4239-91d8-3ff357860d79
- Contract reference
- ocds-b5fd17-36503239-1a31-4239-91d8-3ff357860d79-1