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A pipeline has been launched for Prison Retail Market Engagement.The contract start Date is 19 July 2021. Approach to market date is 20 August 2019.The HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) Prison Retail Service provides approximately 80,000 prisoners the means to order goods (fresh and frozen food, ambient food and non-foods (e.g. toiletries)) using their own funds. The contract is a key operational service in maintaining a stable environment and supports the HMPPS decency agenda, which focuses on [normalising] aspects of prison life to prepare eligible prisoners for release.The current solution is provided as part of a nationally managed service providing wholesale goods, logistics/fleet and management of multiple workshops (17 in total), located within prisons utilising 520 prisoners to pick, pack and despatch an estimated 66,000 orders a week. This project is looking at the re-procurement of the service and looking to hear from interested parties capable of providing the wholesale goods and/or the management of multiple workshopsThis is a potential opportunity from the government, and the pipeline gives advance notice of an opportunity that might be offered by the public sector in the future – allowing potential suppliers to plan accordingly. When a public sector organisation publishes a pipeline notice, it does not necessarily mean that an opportunity will be offered in the future.For more information contact: Ministry of Justice, 102 Petty France, London SW1H 9AJ. Email: kevin.mcgilvray@justice.gov.uk

Post written by: Andrew Perry