Contract award · 1 Jul 2025

Prison Education Service Core Education Lot 5: East Midlands Group & North Midlands Group

Ministry of Justice awarded “Prison Education Service Core Education Lot 5: East Midlands Group &…” to PeoplePlus Group Ltd for £94m on 1 Jul 2025.

Public administration & defence servicesLondon

Value £94m

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Competitive procedure with a selection stage: suppliers were shortlisted before being invited to bid.

Key facts

Buyer
Ministry of Justice · Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions
Value
£94,000,000
Procedure
Call-off from a framework agreement
Sector
Public administration & defence services · Services related to the detention or rehabilitation of criminals (CPV 75231200)
Region
London
Timeline
  1. Contract date1 Jul 2025
  2. Published29 Jul 2025Published 28 days after the contract date

Description

This notice is for the award of Lot 5: East Midlands Group & North Midlands Group The Prisoner Education Services (PES) is a UK government initiative with three overarching strategic priorities; improving prisoner numeracy and literacy skills, incentivizing prisoners to improve their qualifications and skills to increase their prospects of finding work on release, and ensuring that Governors and their teams have the knowledge, tools, support and accountabilities that they need to make this work. PES seeks to transform learning in jails as part of a renewed push to skill up offenders and protect the public. PES Core Education will include teaching and delivery of a two-layered curriculum for independence and for opportunity which meets the needs of prisoners, as well as high quality, timely screening and assessment delivery and tailored and impactful additional learning needs support. The Ministry of Justice launched the PES Panel to reform how education is delivered across the adult p…

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