Prison Operator Services - HMP & YOI Doncaster
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Suppliers
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Lots
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1 awarded
Published
02 Jun 2026
Scope
- Reference
- Prj_14375
- Commercial tool
- Standalone contract
- Contract dates
- 30 Sept 2026 to 30 Sept 2038Possible extension to 30 Sept 2041
1 year + 1 year + 1 year
- CPV classifications
- 752312307523121075240000
- Contract locations
- Yorkshire and the Humber, United Kingdom
Award criteria
Criteria the buyer will use to evaluate bids.
| Name | Description | Type | Weighting |
|---|---|---|---|
| (1.1a) Safety | The Bidder is required to provide a detailed solution for how they will design and deliver a safe regime and environment. | quality | — |
| (1.1b) Decency & Prison Culture | The Bidder is required to provide details regarding how they will ensure that there is a clean, decent and positive environment for all those who live and work there. This should include fostering supportive, effective, and rehabilitative relationships that enable/ facilitate risk reduction both whilst in custody and on release. The Bidder must demonstrate their clear vision regarding the culture they wish to create, why this is important to the outcomes that they want to achieve, identify how they will monitor key risks to achieving this culture, and implement clear plans to mitigate these. They should have sufficient monitoring, communication, and engagement processes in place to support the culture they wish to create throughout the lifecycle of the contract. | quality | — |
| (1.1c) Security | The Bidder is required to provide a detailed solution on how they will seek to both understand their key security risks and take a strategic approach in managing them through a range of methods, including procedural and physical security, with adequate assurances provided. | quality | — |
| (1.2a) Health, Wellbeing and Substance Misuse | The Bidder is required to provide a detailed solution how they will: • Facilitate a comprehensive healthcare provision commissioned by NHS England and delivered by contracted service providers in accordance with national specifications. • Provide wellbeing services that are complementary to those provided via NHS commissioning. • Enable addiction recovery support services that are complementary to those provided via NHS commissioning. • Support the integration of Physical Education and Catering services into health and wellbeing delivery. | quality | — |
| (1.2b) Approach to Regime & Purposeful Activity | The Bidder is required to describe their approach to the design and delivery of the regime for HMP & YOI Doncaster, including a detailed solution for the provision of Tier 1 and 2 Purposeful Activity Offer. As part of its detailed solution, the Bidder must demonstrate effective: · Enabling of the education service; · Provision of skills and work opportunities to prisoners to maximise successful resettlement and employment upon release · Enhancement of inter-personal, social or life skills. | quality | — |
| (1.2c) Reducing Reoffending | The Bidder is required to provide a detailed solution on how they will: • 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. • Ensure that all prisoners are appropriately risk assessed (in terms of risk of serious harm and risk of re-offending?) and supported to reduce their risk level and maximise their opportunities to effectively resettle and reintegrate back into the community upon release. • Tailor their solution to meet the assessed needs of the individual, the different cohorts and those with specific needs. | quality | — |
| (1.2d) Remand | The Bidder is required to outline how it will meet the needs of prisoners who are on remand. | quality | — |
| (1.2e) Transfer, Release & Resettlement | 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 and OSPs to ensure continuity of care and services and continued sentence progression post-transfer/release. | quality | — |
| (1.3a) Equalities | The Bidder is required to provide a detailed solution on how they will ensure 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 D&I events and monitoring and actioning of inequality trends. | quality | — |
| (1.3b) Digital Solution | The Bidder is required to outline a detailed solution for digital services. | quality | — |
| (2a) Core Day, Heatmap, Profiles and Staff Roles/ Headcount | The Bidder is required to complete the relevant templates listed in the Response Criteria to demonstrate how a safe, decent and secure operating environment will be consistently achieved and how the regime will be delivered. | quality | — |
| (2b) Resource Management & ‘Business as Usual’ Staff Management Approach | The Bidder is required to demonstrate a detailed solution on how all resources will be managed to ensure sufficiency of cover for maintaining a safe, secure, and decent operating environment and always ensuring continuity of regime. | quality | — |
| (3a) Increasing supply chain resilience and capacity | The Bidder is required to describe the specific, measurable, and time-bound commitment their organisation will make to ensure that opportunities under the contract deliver the Policy Outcome: Increasing supply chain resilience and capacity. The Bidder is required to demonstrate how they will create a diverse supply chain to deliver the contract including new businesses and entrepreneurs, start-ups, SMEs, VCSEs and mutuals. | quality | — |
| (3b) Workforce Health & Wellbeing | The Bidder is required to describe the specific, measurable, and time-bound commitment its organisation will make to ensure that opportunities under the contract deliver the Policy Outcome: Improve Health & Wellbeing. The bidder is required to demonstrate what is available to support health and wellbeing, including physical and mental health in the contract workforce. | quality | — |
| (3c) Additional Benefits | The Bidder is required to provide its 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 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) | quality | — |
| (4a) Maintenance Services | The Bidder is required to set out a detailed solution to deliver an effective Property and Facilities Management service. | quality | — |
| (4b) Lifecycle Replacement Services | The Bidder is required to set out a detailed solution to deliver an effective Lifecycle Replacement programme for HMP & YOI Doncaster, including how assets will be brought up to the required contractual standards and the dates associated with these changes. | quality | — |
| (4c) FM Resource | The Bidder is required to set out their approach to resourcing comprehensive Planned Preventative Maintenance and Reactive Maintenance Services, including their approach to the use of subcontractors. | quality | — |
| (5a) Sustainability | The Bidder is required to provide a detailed solution to detail how they will manage the prison and deliver effective service sustainably and with due regard for the environment. | quality | — |
| (6a) Mobilisation & Transition | The Bidder is required to provide their approach to and plans for mobilisation from Contract Award (Commencement Date) covering the Mobilisation and Transition periods as outlined in Schedule 5 of Volume 3 (Mobilisation and Appendix 1 – Mobilisation, Transition and Transformation (MTT) Blueprint). | quality | — |
| (6b) Transformation | The Bidder is required to provide its approach to and plans for Transformation (as defined in Schedule 5 of Volume 3) and demonstrate how it will transform the services at HMP & YOI Doncaster to meet the needs of specific cohorts. | quality | — |
| (7.1a) Third Party Contracts | • 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. | quality | — |
| (7:1b) Completed Schedules | Each Bidder is required to provide details on completed schedules. | quality | — |
| (7:1c) Parent Company Guarantee | 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) of Volume 3. | quality | — |
| (7:1d) Consortium and Supply Chain Matters | 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. | quality | — |
| (7:1e) Insurance | The Bidder is required to complete and return the provided template to provide details of its proposed insurance cover and terms. | quality | — |
| (7:1f) Risk Management | The Bidder is required to provide confirmation of compliance with the data storage requirements of the Contract. | quality | — |
| (7:2a) Fixed Price Confirmation | 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. | price | — |
| (7:2b) Payment Mechanism | The Bidder should confirm that its acceptance of the full body of the Schedule 14 (Payment Mechanism) of Volume 3. 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. | quality | — |
| (7:2c) Tax and Accounting | The Bidder is required to satisfy itself generally as to its own tax position under existing tax legislation. | quality | — |
| (7:2d) Lifecycle Reserve Account | The Contractor is required to set up a Lifecycle Reserve Account prior to the Services Commencement Date. | quality | — |
| (7:3a) Financial Robustness Test 1 | Bidders are required to bid back the Daily Total RRAPP Adjustment (Reduction in Requirement for Additional Prisoner Places) for each RRAPP Band using the Financial Robustness Template provided. Bidders are also required to set out their approach to calculating the Daily Total RRAPP Adjustment and confirm that their RRAPP calculations are free from error. | cost | — |
| (7:3c) Financial Robustness Test 3 | The purpose of this Evaluation Question is to test the cohesion between the Bidders financial proposals and its qualitative responses to the Criteria set out in Volume 2. In doing so the Authority will consider how responses will demonstrate a robust, sustainable, logical and consistent approach to both its cost build up and its proposals regarding service delivery as per the below. | quality | — |
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