HMPPS Higher Education

Description

Higher Education services in England and Wales. Lot 1: To provide a service supporting students in a secure environment to apply for, access funding for and complete, higher education courses. Support should be available for a minimum of 400 module enrolments in England and Wales new enrolments per year. Support for new enrollers will continue for subsequent years until course completion or release. This support must include: Ensuring that a range of courses are adapted for delivery in a secure environment, compliant with HMPPS standards and regulations, approved by security and available for delivery in a secure environment. Production of a prospectus of courses available in a secure environment. To protect student choice this must cover the following minimum range of levels and subject areas: Levels: Certificate level 4, Diploma level 5, Undergraduate degree level 6 Subject areas: English Language, English Literature, Maths, Psychology, Business Management, Geography, Art history, Politics, Criminology, History, Economics, Spanish, French, German, Classical Studies, Law, Sociology, Sports, fitness and coaching, Religion, Health & Social care and Combined Science Marketing and promoting to prisoners the uptake of Higher education in prisons and other secure environments. Offering information, advice and guidance to prisoners on the types of course they could apply for and which course would be most suitable. Support in registering for and applying for courses. Support in registering for and applying for student loans. Supporting tutors to enable them to deliver to students in secure environments. Providing support for any course exams to be conducted in a secure environment. Deliver award/graduation ceremonies in secure environments for students who complete courses whilst incarcerated. The initial term of the contract is for 24 months with an option to extend for a further two periods of up to 12 months each. The service commencement date is the 1st of April 2025. If no extension options are exercised, the end date will be the 31st of March 2027.   The estimated contract value of £3,340,000 GBP is based on an annual spend of £835k, over the entire maximum contract length of 48 months, assuming the full options to extend the contract are exercised (however this may not be necessary). It may be necessary for contractor to provide termination assistance beyond the expiry of the contract including, but not limited to, assistance to the extent necessary to ensure that any HMPPS learners already registered on a programme of study with the contractor can continue to be able to access the contractor’s course materials, and have the opportunity to complete their course. The costs associated with such assistance would be dependent on the number of affected HMPPS learners, the nature of their courses and the extent to which they have progressed through a particular course. It is therefore not possible at this point to attribute an accurate estimated value to such termination assistance and the estimated value referred to at II.1.7 does therefore not include this element of potential service provision