Section one: Contracting authority
one.1) Name and addresses
Home Office
London
enhancedintegrationproc@homeoffice.gov.uk
Country
United Kingdom
NUTS code
UK - United Kingdom
Internet address(es)
Main address
one.3) Communication
Additional information can be obtained from the above-mentioned address
one.4) Type of the contracting authority
Ministry or any other national or federal authority
one.5) Main activity
General public services
Section two: Object
two.1) Scope of the procurement
two.1.1) Title
New Plan for Immigration – Enhanced Integration Package
two.1.2) Main CPV code
- 98000000 - Other community, social and personal services
two.1.3) Type of contract
Services
two.1.4) Short description
The Home Office plans to contract for the provision of design and delivery of an Enhanced Integration Package for refugees in England arriving under safe and legal routes. This package will focus on supporting refugees to become self-sufficient and integrate well into society.
The content of this PIN, including the nature of works and services including start date of contract, may be the subject to change.
The contract is expected to commence in late 2022 / early 2023 and is expected to be in place until March 2025.
two.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots: No
two.2) Description
two.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
- 75130000 - Supporting services for the government
- 75200000 - Provision of services to the community
- 79315000 - Social research services
- 79611000 - Job search services
- 85310000 - Social work services
- 85321000 - Administrative social services
- 85322000 - Community action programme
- 98000000 - Other community, social and personal services
- 98133100 - Civic betterment and community facility support services
two.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS codes
- UK - United Kingdom
two.2.4) Description of the procurement
The New Plan for Immigration includes proposals to deliver an Enhanced Integration Package for refugees in England arriving under safe and legal routes. This package will focus on supporting refugees to become self-sufficient and integrate into society. The policy statement says:
We will continue to encourage asylum via safe and legal routes, strengthening our support by offering an enhanced integration package to those arriving in this manner and immediate indefinite leave to remain in the UK for resettled refugees.
We will maintain clear, well-defined routes for refugees in need of protection, ensuring refugees have the freedom to succeed, ability to integrate and contribute fully to society when they arrive in the UK.
Refugees in the UK should have access to the tools they need to become fully independent, provide for themselves and their families and contribute to the economic and cultural life of the UK. We want to ensure there is effective support so that refugees can integrate and become self-sufficient once they make the UK their home.
We will therefore develop tailored and flexible employment support arrangements to refugees arriving to help accelerate their progress as they adjust to life in the UK.
We have already committed £14 million for a cross-government Refugee Transitions Outcomes Fund to offer greater support to refugees with a focus on employment and getting people into work. Building on this programme and other schemes available, we will develop a package of tailored support such as language training, skills development and work placements to help refugees build their lives in the UK. Because proficiency in the English language is so important for refugees to successfully integrate into local communities and enter the workplace, we will improve the offer of English language teaching.
Service Outcomes
The Home Office seeks commercial partners that can support it to deliver service outcomes such as:
Establish a regional refugee integration service to provide a holistic caseworking service, delivering against defined service delivery standards, to provide integration support for refugees arriving in the area under a safe and legal route
Provide tailored employment support for refugees to develop skills and access the labour market. This may include employment specific English language training
Provide holistic caseworking support to refugees who cannot already access a caseworker, to develop the refugee’s personal integration plan and support them to integrate into local communities and access mainstream services
Provide English language training for refugees who cannot already access an ESOL tariff, to support language development
Report integration outcomes to the Home Office to support monitoring and evaluation of refugee integration.
Service Delivery and Implementation
The Home Office wants to ensure refugees arriving under safe and legal routes can access appropriate integration support to ensure they can become self-sufficient and integrate into society.
The offer of integration support could be delivered regionally through the provision of:
Caseworking including employment support
Access to English language training
Online guidance and support
Services required may include (but are not limited to):
Establishing an online presence to provide guidance and signposting to services
Hiring a caseworking team to provide support to refugees through a mixture of face-to-face and remote support
Hiring an employment support team to provide tailored employment support for refugees
Delivering (or sub-contracting) English language training
Delivering (or sub-contracting) training and skills building to support access to employment
two.3) Estimated date of publication of contract notice
30 May 2022
Section four. Procedure
four.1) Description
four.1.8) Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: No
Section six. Complementary information
six.3) Additional information
It is our intention to invite those suppliers that express an interest in this procurement to an early engagement session in March, subject to parties signing a Non-Disclosure Agreement.
1. To express an interest, participants must first be registered on the Home Office eSourcing Suite. If you have not yet registered, this can be done online at https://homeoffice.app.jaggaer.com/web/login.html by following the Register Here Link. Please note that, to register, you must have a valid DUNS number (as provided by Dun and Bradstreet) for the organisation which you are registering and who will be entering into a contract if invited to do so.
2. Email: enhancedintegrationproc@homeoffice.gov.uk
Title of email: Enhanced Integration Package - Expression of Interest
Email to include: Organisation name, Contact name, E-mail address and telephone number.
Once above steps are completed, it is our intention to invite those suppliers that express an interest in this procurement to an early engagement session, subject to parties signing a Non-Disclosure Agreement.