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Prisoner Escort and Custody Services (Generation 4) - Lot South
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01/ The notice
Key facts
- Value
- £745,000,000Framework ceiling or programme total, not a contract value
- Deadline (UK time)
- Fri 28 Aug 2020A deadline does not apply to this historical notice. The source records Fri 28 Aug 2020, which is not an open deadline.
- Published
- 8 Nov 2019
- Region
- East of England, London, South East, South West
02/ The brief
What the notice says
Not fully read: this is the notice text; attached documents are not read.
The contract is for the provision of the 4th generation of the Prisoner Escort & Custody Services contracts (PECS) in England and Wales. The Supplier will be responsible for the movement of adult males and females from prisons and police stations to courts as well as inter-prison transfers, the movement of children and young people from Young Offender Institutions (YOIs), Secure Training Centers (STCs) and Secure Children's Homes (SCHs) as well as care and security whilst in the court custody area and in the dock.
PECS4 contractors will continue to physically transport prisoners between locations but increasingly the requirement will be to enable and support changes to the core operating model for courts, prisons and the police resulting from the implementation of MoJ reform programmes, including an increased proportion of business being delivered in a virtual environment with greater emphasis on the use of video technology.
The services will include:
- Escorting of adults and children and young people;
- At Court Care and Security;
- Inter Prison Transfers
- Bedwatches for Children and Young People
- Prisoner Welfare;
- Tornado and Mutual Aid;
- Incident Management;
- Audit and Quality Assurance
03/ Classification
CPV codes
Common Procurement Vocabulary codes, exactly as the notice lists them. No descriptions are added here.
- 75231220
- 75000000 75200000 75230000 75231000
04/ History
Releases of this notice
One release held, oldest first. Dates are UK time.
- 8 Nov 2019Contract notice
Contract notice published 8 November 2019.
Release aee88d1a-8fdb-4fc7-9667-d0fa2902e49c
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05/ Limits
What the source does not tell us
- The stated value is a ceiling or programme total.
- Only one release is held, so there is no change history.
06/ Questions
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- Reference
- aee88d1a-8fdb-4fc7-9667-d0fa2902e49c
- Source
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- Stage
- contract · Contract
- Last verified
- Sat 11 Apr 2026, 19:42 BST
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