Official UK procurement notice
Community Accommodation Service - Tier 3
Authority: Ministry of Justice (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Ministry of Justice (MoJ) as the contracting authority intends to commission ten (10) contracts to provide the ‘Community Accommodation Service – Tier 3’ (“CAS-3”) service in five ‘Probation Regions’. The Regions (represented by lots) are: North East, West Midlands, East Midlands, South Central, South West and London. The London procurement will have 5 sub-lots to reflect the size of the market the London sub-lots will be broken down as follows:
London SW -: Richmond, Wandsworth, Croydon, Sutton, Merton, Kingston
London SE: Lambeth, Southwark, Lewisham, Greenwich, Bexley, Bromley
London NW: West: Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Kensington & Chelsea, Hillingdon, Harrow, Hounslow
London NE: City of London, Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest, Redbridge, Havering, Barking & Dagenham
London North Central: Westminster, Camden, Islington, Enfield, Barnet, Haringey .
The successful Suppliers will provide (either themselves or through a supply chain) accommodation to a Person on Probation (“POP”) at risk of being homeless upon being released from prison or as part of their resettlement and moved-on from an Approved Premises (CAS-1), or period at a Bail Accommodation and Support Service (BASS) residence (CAS-2).
Suppliers will be expected to meet the Specification for the Region(s) in which they are bidding, which is tailored to reflect specific locations and volumes, volumes may vary throughout the life of the contract depending on demand for the service in each region.
The successful suppliers shall provide accommodation to a referred POP from the first night of release for up to 84 days and provide individualised pastoral, floating support to each POP to support them in maintaining the accommodation as well as helping the POP move-on into settled accommodation.
CPV: Other community, social and personal services · Probation services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value published · win at most 10 of themLot #1CAS3 Community Accommodation services National Roll outRenewalPublished value£287,000,000
CAS-3 is a new service for the Authority. The successful Suppliers will provide a delivery model that meets the specification and accommodates POPs referred to them by the Probation Homelessness Prevention Team (“HPT”) for a period of up to 84 nights.
Each lot comprises sub-regions that the successful Supplier(s) will source accommodation services for. The approximate number of POPs the successful Supplier(s) for each lot will accommodate each month are (NB these figures comprise sub-regional requirements):
- North East:99
- West Midlands:198
- East Midlands:270
- South Central:147
- South West:189
- London South West:43
- London South East:129
- London North West:79
- London North East:110
- London North Central:80
These numbers are indicative and the Authority reserves the right to adjust the number of beds, or the cohort using the beds during the life of the contract based on its demand and forecasting information.
The successful Suppliers shall provide Support to a POP residing in the Accommodation. The Support provided by the Supplier must include contact at least 1 weekly contact and 2 visits/month (1 hour each visit). The focus of the Support is to assist the Prison Leaver to manage their temporary accommodation and to assist the Community Probation Practitioner and Commissioned Rehabilitation Services provider (Accommodation) (if different) to carry out activities towards moving on into settled accommodation. This support will not be focussed on helping the Prison Leaver to rehabilitate as part of their resettlement planning.
The successful Supplier shall offer a range of Accommodation including properties with one (1) Bed Space in self-contained units up to properties with a maximum of four (4) Bed Spaces. Each Accommodation unit shall be dedicated to single gender usage (i.e. men or women or transgender (as required). The location of the female units to be determined in discussion with the Authority. Female accommodation units should be 1 or 2 bed spaces. For transgender individuals the Authority will liaise with the Supplier in order for their Accommodation to be managed on an individual basis.
As a minimum, the Accommodation provided must comply with Decent Home Standards published by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, be of a good standard, and is furnished and arranged in compliance with any applicable law, regulation, or guidance concerning COVID-19.
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How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
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How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
- Staff
- Names and qualifications of delivery staff must be submitted
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Closed
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 18 May 2022, 07:27 BST
- Last source update
- 18 May 2022, 07:27 BST
- Award evaluation window
- 23 Jun 2022 – …
- FTS notice number
2022/S 000-013218- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-033a40Find a Tender
- Performance terms
Information on expected performance conditions is provided for information only and is contained within the target operating model.
Publisher note: The indicative contract commencement date is currently planned for End December 2022/early January 2023 (“Commencement Date”) and the Supplier's obligations will run from that Commencement Date. Mobilisation of the service will start around that Commencement Date with an expectation of properties to be available straight away and ramped up thereafter. The TED reference for the Prior Information Notice for this tender is 000136-2022. The Contracts Finder reference for the Early Engagement Notice for this tender is: tender_000136-2022. These contracts are non-exclusive and the Authority therefore reserves the right to commission additional suppliers to provide any element of these services according to Authority's needs. Bravo Project Reference is prj_7821. ITT Reference is: [TBD] The MoJ reserves the right to reject all or any of the tenders and not to award a contract to any bidder, without any liability on its part. Nothing in this notice shall generate any contractual obligations prior to the signature of a contract following a competition.
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 8 Jun 2022, 12:00 BST
- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission","written"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bids opened
- 23 Jun 2022, 12:00 BST
Timeline
18 May 2022 → 23 Jun 2022 · 3 dates- Notice published18 May 2022, 07:27 BST
- Submission deadline8 Jun 2022, 12:00 BST
- Bids opened23 Jun 2022, 12:00 BST
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Economic and financial selection criteria
- Technical selection criteria