Screening and Assessment Lot 2 Reading Paper Tool Contingency

Concepts

• screening and assessment lot 2 reading paper tool contingency
• tool
• reading
• paper
• screening
• contingency
• targeted literacy interventions
• english provision
• prisons
• education teams

Location

Description

A paper based assessment tool for accurately measuring the decoding ability of prisoners, supporting targeted literacy interventions and contributing to educational planning and rehabilitation efforts. Objectives: • Provide a standardised and reliable measure of prisoners’ decoding ability • Enable prison staff and education teams to identify literacy needs quickly and effectively • Support rehabilitation pathways and progression in English provision within prisons • Produce consistent, comparable data that can be aggregated at establishment and system level

Award Detail

CPV Codes

• None found

Legal Justification

Under the new Prison Education Services (PES), the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is required to provide a digital platform for the Screening and Assessment (S&A) of prisoners in functional skills, reading, and additional learning needs. However, following two recent unsuccessful procurement exercises for the reading element, the Authority is currently unable to fulfil this obligation. As an interim measure, a paper-based solution will be implemented for reading-related screening and assessments. The evaluation tool to be provided is via sites licensed on an individual site license basis based upon the number of prisoners having assessments undertaken within a set period. The contracting authority (MoJ) is invoking the single-supplier direct award provisions under paragraphs 5 and 6 of Schedule 5 of the Procurement Act 2023: • paragraph 5 (a) due to a particular supplier having intellectual property rights or other exclusive rights, only that supplier can supply the goods, services or works required, and (b) there are no reasonable alternatives to those goods, services or works This justification also applies due to: • The MoJ does not have any express rights to transfer or licence the intellectual property rights to any other supplier • No reasonable alternatives

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