Detained Duty Advice Scheme Services at Derwentside from 1 July 2022

Concepts

• legal services
• immigration removal centre
• duty advice scheme services
• detained duty advice scheme
• derwentside irc requirements
• above service
• irc exclusive schedule
• standard civil contract
• contract requirements
• asylum category of law

Location

Durham CC: IRC Derwentside, County Durham

Description

The LAA is inviting Applicants to submit a Tender for an IRC Exclusive Schedule under a 2018 Standard Civil Contract to deliver work conducted in an Immigration Removal Centre (“IRC”) setting through the Detained Duty Advice Scheme (“DDAS”) at the following new IRC; • Derwentside, County Durham. The LAA intends to award IRC Exclusive Schedules to any organisation who can meet the contract requirements and Applicants bidding to deliver this work must be able to deliver up to 100% of the work falling within the scope of this contract. Applicants do not need to be a current legal aid provider to submit a tender, enabling organisations new to legal aid to bid to deliver this work. To be awarded Contract Work Applicants must: a) Either: • Hold a 2018 Standard Civil Contract with authorisation in the Immigration and Asylum Category of Law; or • Bid for and be awarded a 2018 Standard Civil Contract with authorisation in the Immigration and Asylum Category of Law; and b) meet the Generic Requirements and the Derwentside IRC requirements set out in section 2 of this Information For Applicants document (“IFA”). Organisations solely regulated by OISC may not be eligible to bid as they may not be able to meet all the tender requirements. A revised supervisor standard has been introduced for this procurement process to ensure the quality of advice provided. This requires supervisors to provide additional case examples of common elements of work encountered at IRCs. Applicants wishing to deliver the above service must submit a Tender which consists of a response to the SQ and the Derwentside IRC ITT. This opportunity opens on 24 March 2022. The deadline for submitting a Tender is 12 noon on 25 April 2022.

Total Quantity or Scope

Additional information: Organisations should note that the estimated contract value covers both contract work to be delivered at Derwentside IRC and also Immigration and Asylum Contract work where the LAA awards a contract through this procurement process. The estimated value of the work at Derwentside IRC is £125k and the estimated value of the Immigration and Asylum contract work is £242k. Figures based on maximum term

Award Criteria

CPV Codes

• 79100000 - Legal services

Indicators

• This is a one-off contract (no recurrence)
• Renewals are not available.

Other Information

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