Competition with a shortlist
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
- Supplier
- LTE Group (Trading as Novus)
- Value
- £47,000,000
- 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
- Official notice
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- Timeline
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- Contract date1 Jul 2025
- Published29 Jul 2025Published 28 days after the contract date
Description
This notice is for the award of Lot 6: Greater Manchester, Merseyside and Cheshire 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 …
About the supplier
LTE Group (Trading as Novus): every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 17414063).