Prison Operator Services Competition - HMP Rye Hill - UK4 Tender Notice

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        "title": "Prison Operator Services Competition - HMP Rye Hill - UK4 Tender Notice",
        "description": "HMP Rye Hill is a Category C training prison in the village of Willoughby, near Rugby in Warwickshire. It holds 1,122 prisoners. Operated by G4S, it opened in 2001 as a Category B prison for adult males. Under this procurement, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) (the Authority) is seeking a single operator to manage and maintain both the prison regime and the prison facilities at HMP Rye Hill. The Authority has procured contracts for the operation of prisons by the private sector since the early 1990s and continues to support a mixed economy of public, voluntary, and private sector involvement. The current contract for HMP Rye Hill will expire on 20 January 2028. Scope of Services The Prison Operator Services contract (also referred as \"prison management\" in global markets) includes: * Operational custodial services: education, rehabilitation, training, work, security and resettlement * Facilities Management (\"FM\"): both hard and soft FM services The contract is based on the Cabinet Office Model Services Contract and is designed to ensure safe, secure and transformative prison operations that reduce reoffending and maintain high standards. The Authority aims to ensure a safe and efficient transfer of services with minimal disruption to staff and prisoners, while modernising the prison to ensure it is fit for the future. Procurement Documentation Details of the procurement can be found in the Invitation to Tender (ITT) documents which are structured into three volumes and are located in Ministry of Justice's e-Sourcing Portal (Jaggaer). Volume 1: Introduction, Instructions, and Procurement Process - providing instructions on the completion and submission of tenders, including indicative timelines. Volume 2: Bidder Response Criteria and Assessment Methodology - providing details of the Response Criteria Bidders are required to cover in their Bids, together with guidance on completion of Bidder responses against each criterion. This volume also provides details of the evaluation methodology by which the Bid will be evaluated and the award criteria. Volume 3: The Draft Contract - providing the draft Framework Agreement and a Model Call-Off Contract, that will form the basis of Prison Operator Services delivery for any Mini-Competition run in accordance with the Call-Off Procedure. Contract Duration The anticipated contract duration is 12 years from the operational services commencement date with: - An option to extend by up to 3 years (1+1+1) - A break clause 6 years from the Service Commencement Date",
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            "features": "Stage 1: Conditions of Participation 1.1 Stage 1 commenced with the issuing of aTender Notice and the publication of theprocurement documents relating to thisCompetition. 1.2 The procurement documents include aProcurement Specific Questionnaire which allBidders are required to complete and return inaccordance with paragraph 4.7 (timetable for thecompetition) of Volume 1 of the ITT documentationand the instructions within this Invitation. 1.3 Bidders that wish to participate in thisCompetition are responsible for ensuring that theCentral Digital Platform contains complete,accurate and up-to-date information in accordancewith the relevant requirements set out in theProcurement Regulations 2024. Bidders must notifythe Authority immediately if they are unable toand/or provide accurate and up-to-date informationvia the Central Digital Platform. 1.4 As part of Stage 1, Bidders must submit acompleted Financial Viability Risk Assessment Tool(FVRAT). In addition, and in accordance withparagraph 4.3.4 of this Volume 1, it is the Bidder'sresponsibility throughout the Competition to disclose to The Authority any change incircumstances which results in a change to theclassification of the Bidder's baseline riskassessment, such as a degradation of balancesheet, cash flow, or structural stability, asestablished in the FVRAT and submitted as part ofthe Bidder's response to the PSQ. If a change incircumstances occurs, Bidders are required tosubmit a completed updated FVRAT template to theAuthority within five (5) working days. The Authoritywill only provide responses to ClarificationQuestions (CQs) relating to the PSQ and COPduring the period set out in 4.7 (timetable for thecompetition) of Volume 1 of the ITT documentation. 1.5 The Authority will use this stage to confirm thatneither the Bidder, nor any connected persons, (asdefined within paragraph 45 of Schedule 6 of theAct), associated persons relied on to meet theConditions of Participation, or intended sub-contractors are on the Cabinet Office debarmentlist. To the extent that any such entities are includedon the debarment list by virtue of a mandatoryexclusion ground, the Authority will exclude theBidder from participating in the Competition inaccordance with its obligations under the Act. 1.6 In addition, the Authority will consider whetherany Bidder (including its connected persons),associated persons relied on to meet theConditions of Participation, or intended sub-contractors are \"excluded\" or \"excludable\" withinthe meaning of section 57 of the Act. Beforedetermining whether a Bidder is excluded orexcludable, the Authority will provide the Bidderreasonable opportunity to make representationsand provide evidence to demonstrate whether theexclusion grounds apply If the Bidder is excluded orexcludable only by virtue of an associated personor intended sub-contractor, the Authority will notifythe Bidder of its intention to exclude the Bidder andprovide reasonable opportunity to replace theassociated person or sub-contractor. If, as aconsequence of this process, the Authorityexcludes the Bidder from participating in theCompetition or is aware of an associated person orsub-contract having been replaced, it will givenotice within 30 days of its decision to the Procurement Review Unit (PRU) in accordance withsection 59 of the Act. 1.7 The Authority will undertake a review of thecompleted PSQs received from Bidders, byreference to information held on the Central DigitalPlatform. Responses to the PSQ will be assessedin accordance with the corresponding evaluationmethodology as described in more detail in the PSQ. 1.8 Stage 1 will conclude with Bidders beingnotified in writing of whether or not they have beensuccessfully shortlisted to participate in Stage 2 ofthe Competition. 1.9 Any Bidders not invited to Stage 2 will beprovided with a written explanation of the reasonswhy they have not been shortlisted. 1.10 In the event of a change in circumstancesduring the Competition that has (or could have)affected the information submitted previously in aBidder's response to the PSQ, the Bidder mustinform the Authority promptly of such changes andthe Authority reserves the right to re-assess anyresponse to the PSQ accordingly. 1.11 Bidders are required to make declarations aspart of Stage 1 which will continue to have effectthroughout the Competition. In accordance withRegulation 6 of the Procurement Regulations 2024,the Authority will obtain confirmation from theBidders that any updated or corrected core supplierinformation has been shared with the Authority andhas also been uploaded to the Central DigitalPlatform. 1.12 The Authority reserves the right to adjust theproposed weightings assigned to each evaluationquestion, and their associated cost elements aspart of the PQP calculation, prior to thecommencement of Stage 2. In particular, Digital,Over-Heads and Pass-through costs are currentlybeing reviewed for this Competition but will still formpart of the evaluation and will be considered whenassessing bid price against the AffordabilityThreshold. Volume 2 and related documents,including but limited to Annexes Q - Financial Response Template, Annex R - Cost AssumptionsQuestionnaire and Annex S - Financial ResponseInstructions will be updated following completion ofthe COP stage. 1.13 Bidders will be notified of any changes madeto the approach to these areas of cost, which couldinclude removing some of these cost elements fromthe PQP calculation. In addition, the weighting ofQ1.3b - Digital, is currently being reviewed with aview to removing the weighting and redistributingthe weighting across other questions. 2) Stage 2: Invitation to Submit a Tender 2.1 Stage 2 will commence once the Authority hasnotified Bidders whether or not they have beensuccessfully shortlisted to participate in the nextstage of the Competition, following the evaluation ofPSQ responses. 2.2 During Stage 2, the Authority will engage indialogue sessions with each Bidder for the purposeof enabling Bidders to confirm their understandingof key aspects of the Competition and in particular,the Evaluation Questions. To that end, each Bidderwill be provided with an equal opportunity to attenddialogue sessions with the Authority to discuss thecore requirements of the Competition, and toenable Bidders to develop and improve the contentthat will be submitted as part of their Tenders. 2.3 The indicative period for the dialogue stage ofthe Competition is set out in the timetable atparagraph 4.7 of Volume 1 of the ITTdocumentation. The dialogue stage shall bestructured as follows: 2.4 Week 1: this week will commence with an in-person Competition vision session hosted by theAuthority (location and timings to be confirmed), aswell as a group and individual Bidder site visit toHMP Rye Hill. Further information on how toexpress interest in attending the vision session andthe site visit will be issued via Jaggaer following theconclusion of Stage 1. 2.5 Weeks 2-9: during these weeks, the Authoritywill host a programme of [mandatory] training sessions (sessions delivered to support bidderswith development of their Profiling and FRT aspectsof their bid response), with each week dedicated toa different subject matter relevant to the formulationof Bids. In advance of these weeks, Bidders will beinvited to express preferences regarding topics theywish to discuss with Authority subject matterexperts (SMEs). Each Bidder will have theopportunity to discuss the core requirements ofeach Evaluation Criterion with Authority SMEs indedicated 1-to-1 sessions. If it is determined that atopic requested by one Bidder would be beneficialto all Bidders, the MoJ will encourage all Bidders toconsider this topic to promote fair treatment.Bidders are reminded of their responsibility toprepare any materials and/or questions fordiscussion to support the development andimprovement of their Tenders. The Authority willalso make available additional topic-focused sitevisits during this period, for example each bidderwill receive a Facilities Management focused visit atHMP Rye Hill, with relevant FM data being sharedto Bidders in advance. Further details, includingtopics and timings, will be issued via Jaggaer. 2.6 Week 10: this is a contingency week and shallonly be utilised where Bidders require furtherdiscussion with the Authority. 2.7 Please note, the Authority is not able toguarantee Bidders' preferred timeslots for any ofthe activities described in paragraphs 4.4.3.1 to4.4.3.3. 2.8 Please note, the activities described inparagraphs 4.4.3.1 to 4.4.3.3 are indicative onlyand may be subject to change 2.9 The Authority will only provide responses toInvitation CQs during the period set out in thetimetable for the competition at paragraph 4.7 ofVolume 1 of the ITT documentation. 2.10 Following the conclusion of the dialogueperiod, the Authority will publish the ITT for thepurpose of inviting Bidders to submit their Tenders. 2.11 Tenders must be submitted in accordance withthe requirements described, and in the format specified, as set out in Volume 2 of the ITTdocumentation, together with any furtherinstructions that may be issued via the Authority's e-Sourcing platform, Jaggaer, from time to time. 2.12 The Authority will evaluate all Tenders in orderto identify the Bidder which has submitted the mostadvantageous tender in accordance with theAssessment Methodology and Response Criteriaset out in the Tender Notice and the ITT. 3) Stage Three - Preferred Bidder Stage (Furtherdetail can be found in the ITT volume 1documentation) 4) Stage Four - Award Stage (Further detail can befound in the ITT volume 1 documentation)"
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        "expressionOfInterestDeadline": "2026-07-10T12:00:00+01:00",
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                    "weightingDescription": "Quality criteria for this evaluation is set out in the ITT documentation under Section 5 of Volume 2 Volume 2 Table 3 (paragraph 5.31), contains the weighting given to each criterion",
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                            "type": "quality",
                            "name": "1.1a) Safety",
                            "description": "The Bidder is required to deliver a safe regime and environment at HMP Rye Hill for all those who live and work there."
                        },
                        {
                            "type": "quality",
                            "name": "1.1.b) Decency & Prison Culture",
                            "description": "The Bidder is required to deliver a clean, decent and positive environment for all those who live and work there. This must include how rehabilitative relationships will be fostered in support of reducing risk of harm and risk of reoffending in custody and on release."
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                        {
                            "type": "quality",
                            "name": "1.1c) Security",
                            "description": "The Bidder is required to design and deliver a secure environment and secure ways of working including physical, procedural and dynamic security approaches."
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                        {
                            "type": "quality",
                            "name": "1.2a) Health, Wellbeing and Drug and Alcohol Misuse",
                            "description": "The Bidder is required to design and deliver services and physical environment that will improve health inequalities, the mental and physical health and wellbeing of prisoners and tackle drug and alcohol misuse and dependency by: * Facilitating a comprehensive healthcare provision commissioned by NHS England (or successor commissioning body) and delivered by contracted service providers in accordance with national specifications. * Enabling internal and external health appointments and internal wellbeing activities. * Providing wellbeing services that are complementary to those provided via NHS commissioning. * Enabling addiction recovery support services that are complementary to those provided via NHS commissioning. * Supporting the integration of physical education and catering services into health and wellbeing delivery."
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                        {
                            "type": "quality",
                            "name": "1.2b) Approach to Regime & Purposeful Activity (incl. Education, Skills and Work)",
                            "description": "The Bidder is required to design and deliver a regime for HMP Rye Hill that meaningfully engages prisoners and meets their risk, need and responsivity requirements through the provision of Tier 1 and 2 Purposeful Activity Offer across the Prison. As part of the detailed solution, the Bidder must demonstrate effective: * Prisoner education services, including the core education services, library services, CIAG (Careers, Information, Advice and Guidance) services; * Provision of skills and work opportunities to prisoners to maximise successful resettlement and employment upon release; * Enhancement of inter-personal, social or life skills."
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                        {
                            "type": "quality",
                            "name": "1.2c) Reducing Reoffending",
                            "description": "The Bidder is required to design and deliver a service that will deliver and improve rehabilitative outcomes for prisoners, reducing both their risk of reoffending and risk of harm in custody and on release. The bidder must: * Design, deliver, monitor, review and refine their rehabilitative activity offer to provide the best possible outcomes for prisoners in line with the most recent evidence-based research."
                        },
                        {
                            "type": "quality",
                            "name": "1.2d) Transfer, Release & Resettlement",
                            "description": "The Bidder is required to outline a detailed solution for preparing prisoners for resettlement, release, or transfer and how they will work with other establishments, Probation Service, HMCTS (His Majesty's Courts and Tribunal Services) and OSPs to ensure continuity of care and services and continued sentence progression post-transfer/release."
                        },
                        {
                            "type": "quality",
                            "name": "1.3a) Diversity, Equality and Inclusion",
                            "description": "The Bidder is required to provide a solution which ensures consideration of all groups (prisoners and staff) with specialist needs, what specific approaches they will take to meet those needs, and how they will ensure equality of access and outcomes through a range of activities, including staff recruitment and training, delivery of DEI events and monitoring and actioning of inequality trends."
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                        {
                            "type": "quality",
                            "name": "1.3b) Digital Solution",
                            "description": "The Bidder is required to deliver a solution which safely utilises digital solutions to support the rehabilitation and positive outcomes for Prisoners."
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                        {
                            "type": "quality",
                            "name": "2a) Core Day, Heatmap, Profiles and Staff Roles/Headcount",
                            "description": "The Bidder is required to provide a detailed solution of how it will design and deliver a planned resource model that will provide consistent, resilient Safe, Decent and Secure Operating Levels (SDSOL) at all times and will deliver the services and regime in full and as planned (with no curtailment)."
                        },
                        {
                            "type": "quality",
                            "name": "2b) Resource Management & 'Business as Usual' Staff Management Approach",
                            "description": "The Bidder is required to provide a detailed solution of how it will design and deliver effective and responsive resource management in the live environment to ensure that a safe, decent and secure operating levels will be maintained, and the regime and services be delivered."
                        },
                        {
                            "type": "quality",
                            "name": "3a) Employment and training for those who face barriers to employment",
                            "description": "The Bidder is required to design and deliver specific, measurable and time-bound commitments that it will make to ensure that the contract creates employment and training opportunities for those who face barriers to employment and/or who are located in deprived areas."
                        },
                        {
                            "type": "quality",
                            "name": "3b) Workforce Health & Wellbeing",
                            "description": "The Bidder is required to design and deliver specific, measurable, and time-bound commitments that its organisation will make to ensure that opportunities under the Contract deliver the following policy outcomes: 1) Improve health and wellbeing. 2) Demonstrate action to support health and wellbeing, including physical and mental health in the Contract workforce."
                        },
                        {
                            "type": "quality",
                            "name": "3c) Additional Measurable Benefits",
                            "description": "The Bidder is required to provide its specific, measurable and time-bound commitments that are in addition to those required by the Contract, and that will deliver benefits over and above those which results from delivery of the Contract. Those benefits must meaningfully contribute to the delivery of, at least one, of the HMPPS Business Strategy outcomes of: * Protecting the public * Reducing reoffending * Decent and safe prisons (which may include improving the experience of prisoners in custody)"
                        },
                        {
                            "type": "quality",
                            "name": "4a) Maintenance Services",
                            "description": "The Bidder is required to design and deliver an effective property and facilities management service, covering 24/7 365 days a year, that ensures the prison property and environment is safe, decent and secure and that prison places and service delivery are able to be delivered. They must demonstrate compliance with health, safety and fire safety legislation and other statutory and mandatory requirements."
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                        {
                            "type": "quality",
                            "name": "4b) Lifecycle Replacement Services",
                            "description": "The Bidder is required to design and deliver an effective lifecycle replacement programme for HMP Rye Hill, including how assets, when renewed, will be brought up to the required contractual standards and the dates associated with these changes."
                        },
                        {
                            "type": "quality",
                            "name": "4c) FM Resource",
                            "description": "The Bidder is required to design and deliver a comprehensive resourcing approach to deliver its Planned Preventative Maintenance and Reactive Maintenance Services, including its approach to the use of sub-contractors."
                        },
                        {
                            "type": "quality",
                            "name": "5a) Sustainability",
                            "description": "The Bidder is required to design and deliver and manage services at HMP Rye Hill with due regard for the environment."
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                        {
                            "type": "quality",
                            "name": "6a) Mobilisation & Transition",
                            "description": "The Bidder is required to design and deliver its approach to the successful mobilisation (from Commencement Date (CD) up to and inclusive of Services Commencement Date (SCD) and Transition periods (6 months following SCD) of HMP Rye Hill, (as outlined in Schedule 5 Mobilisation, Transition, and Transformation and the Mobilisation, Transition and Transformation (MTT) Blueprint)."
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                            "type": "quality",
                            "name": "6b) Transformation",
                            "description": "The Bidder is required to design and deliver the efficient, and effective transformation of Prison Operator Services at HMP Rye Hill. The transformation approach must ensure safety, decency and security throughout the life of the contract. (as outlined in Schedule 5 Mobilisation, Transition, and Transformation and the Mobilisation, Transition and Transformation (MTT) Blueprint)."
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                            "name": "7.1a) Third Party Contracts",
                            "description": "The Bidder is required to state its compliance to Authority contractual specifications for Utilities. The Bidder is required to state its compliance to Authority contractual specifications for Food Services. The Bidder is required to state its compliance to Authority contractual specifications for Retail. The Bidder is required to state its compliance to Authority contractual specifications for Staff Uniforms. The Bidder is required to state its compliance to Authority contractual specifications for Secure Social Video Calling. The Bidder is required to state its compliance to Authority contractual specifications for Control and Restraint Equipment. The Bidder is required to state its compliance to Authority contractual specifications for Cleaning and Hygiene Equipment. The Bidder is required to state its compliance to Authority contractual specifications for Mandatory Drug Testing. The Bidder is required to state its compliance to Authority contractual requirements for Catering"
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                            "name": "7.1b) Completed Schedules",
                            "description": "Each Bidder is required to provide details on completed schedules."
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                            "name": "7.1c) Parent Company Guarantee",
                            "description": "Each Bidder is required to provide information for their (and any SPV or Consortium members') ultimate parent company in connection with the provision of a parent company guarantee in the form provided in Schedule 23 (Parent Company Guarantee). Bidders must provide the requested information in a separate document and must not provide the requested information in Schedule 23 (Parent Company Guarantee) itself. If a Bidder cannot provide a Parent Company Guarantee in their bid submission, they must raise a Clarification Question to the Authority to ascertain whether other forms of financial guarantee are acceptable."
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                            "name": "7.1d) Consortium and Supply Chain Matters",
                            "description": "The Bidder must provide all relevant information concerning the way in which the Services will be provided including but not limited to full details of any consortium, Special Purpose Vehicle and sub-contracting arrangements intended to be used."
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                            "name": "7.1e) Insurance",
                            "description": "The Bidder is required to complete and return the table in Annex V of Volume 2 of this Invitation."
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                            "name": "7.1f) Risk Management",
                            "description": "The Bidder is required to provide a risk management plan which clearly articulates the Bidder's approach to risk management."
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                            "type": "quality",
                            "name": "7.1g) Data Storage Outside the UK",
                            "description": "The Bidder is required to provide confirmation of compliance with the data storage requirements of the Contract."
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                            "type": "quality",
                            "name": "7.1h) Commercial Transparency of AI Use",
                            "description": "In accordance with PPN 017 (Improving Transparency of AI Use in Procurement), the Bidder must detail whether they have used AI to develop any part of their Tender for this Competition."
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                        {
                            "type": "quality",
                            "name": "7.2a) Fixed Price Confirmation",
                            "description": "The Bidder should confirm that its Bid Price (NPC of Price per Prisoner Place) represents a fixed price and that there will be no changes to this price during the Preferred Bidder Stage unless there is a change in Authority requirement."
                        },
                        {
                            "type": "quality",
                            "name": "7.2b) Payment Mechanism",
                            "description": "The Bidder should confirm that its acceptance of the full body of the Schedule 14 (Payment Mechanism). For the avoidance of doubt, this includes acceptance of the proposed Permitted Level of Contractor Doubled-Up Prisoners for a specific day and the Lifecycle Reserve Account surplus sharing position."
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                            "name": "7.2c) Tax and Accounting",
                            "description": "The Bidder is required to satisfy itself generally as to its own tax position under existing tax legislation."
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                            "type": "quality",
                            "name": "7.2d) Lifecycle Reserve Account",
                            "description": "The Bidder is required to set up a Lifecycle Reserve Account prior to the Services Commencement Date."
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                            "name": "7.3a) Financial Robustness Test 1",
                            "description": "The Bidder is required to bid back the Daily Total RRAPP Adjustment for each RRAPP Band as set out in rows 36-88 of the \"6. Schedule 14\" tab in the FRT. The Authority acknowledges that this amount could be positive or negative when averaging out all the bands. The formula below assumes a scenario that the most economically advantageous scenario for the Authority is the Lowest Average Daily Total RRAPP Adjustment. However, the Authority reserves the right to amend the evaluation formula if one or more Bidders bid back an Average Daily Total RRAPP Adjustment."
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                            "description": "The Daily Total APP Payment for each APP Band as set out in rows 93-100 of the \"6. Schedule 14\" tab in the FRT."
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                            "description": "Reasonableness of Cost Assumptions - The Bidder is required to provide a detailed solution of how its financial proposals will ensure delivery of the Contract throughout its life by ensuring the costs are robust, sustainable, logical and consistent"
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                "accessDetails": "The Authority will be using its e-Sourcing Portal known as Jaggaer to release all documents and communicate to the market. Registration: The e-Sourcing Portal is an online application that allows all bidders to create and submit their responses to any PSQ and Tenders via the internet. Bidders instructions to express an interest in this Tender: 1) Login to the Portal at: https://ministryofjusticecommercial.bravosolution.co.uk/web/login.html with username and password 2) Click the PQQs/ITTs Open to All Suppliers' link. (These are Pre-Qualification Questionnaires or Invitations to Tender open to any registered supplier) 3) Click on the relevant PSQ/ITT to access the content using the following: PQQ Code - PQQ_615 Project Code - prj_14738 4) Click the \"Express Interest\" button at the top of the page. This will move the PQQ/ITT into your \"My PQQs/My ITTs\" page. (This is a secure area reserved for your projects only) 5) You can now access any attachments by clicking \"Buyer Attachments\" in the \"PQQ/ITT Details\" box instructions on how to submit a Tender will be provided 6) If you experience any technical problems, please e-mail esourcing@Justice.gov.uk 7) In the event of system issues please contact the Jaggaer Helpdesk via telephone 0845 0100 132"
            },
            {
                "id": "063383-2026",
                "documentType": "tenderNotice",
                "noticeType": "UK4",
                "description": "Tender notice on Find a Tender",
                "url": "https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/063383-2026",
                "datePublished": "2026-07-06T17:58:00+01:00",
                "format": "text/html"
            }
        ]
    },
    "language": "en"
}