Learning and Skills Provision at HMP Berwyn

The Learning and Skills provision is to deliver a minimum of 488 and a maximum of 609 Learning and Skills activity places per day across 21 classrooms and 3 vocational workshops and embedded across the prison.

The Authority's key objectives for the Contract are to: - Allow for the delivery of a 'Whole Prison Approach' to ensure the service provided is joined-up, streamlined and supports the integration of the industries, custody, education and health services; - Provide prisoners with employability skills which better prepare them for employment and thereby contribute to the rehabilitative culture of HMP Berwyn and support the reduction of re-offending; - Deliver high quality learning and the vision for the prison; - Embed Learning and Skills within the prison through a delivery model that is engaging and motivational and removes barriers to learning.

The Service - high level requirements: - The successful Bidder shall be required to design the provision to meet the learning needs of the prison population, the education and employment opportunities in the resettlement areas prisoners return to following release from custody and to fit the prison's core day and operational conditions. - The successful Bidder will be expected to provide assessment and learning and skills places from the Service commencement date. - The aim of the daily regime at the Prison is to create a balanced and integrated regime.

All Prisoners will have the opportunity to be out of their cell and participate in learning activities except when the needs of safety and security prevent it, or a Prisoner is undergoing punishment including Basic Regime under the IEP scheme.

The successful Bidder will share the vision for the prison and will have an important role in promoting the learning culture throughout the prison and demonstrate support for the organisational values.

The Contract has a four (4) year initial duration, plus an optional two (2) year extension and a further one (1) year extension if agreed by both the Authority and the Supplier.

The Authority is using the Jaggaer electronic eSourcing Portal (formerly Bravo) for the procurement.

The ITT, which is comprised of a number of volumes, is available only in electronic format via the eSourcing Portal.

Bidders must register the names of all contacts requiring access to the sourcing event and should submit queries via the eSourcing Portal.

Link to the eSourcing Portal: https://ministryofjusticecommercial.bravosolution.co.uk/web/login.html