Detained Duty Advice Scheme Services at Derwentside from 1 July 2022

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£366,876

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  • Legal services

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  • award
  • contract

Published

3 years ago

Description

The LAA invited 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 intended to award IRC Exclusive Schedules to any organisation who met the contract requirements and Applicants who bid to deliver this work must have been able to deliver up to 100% of the work falling within the scope of this contract.
Applicants did 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 have:
a) Either:
• Held 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) Met 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 have been eligible to bid as they may not have been able to meet all the tender requirements.
A revised supervisor standard was introduced for this procurement process to ensure the quality of advice provided. This required supervisors to provide additional case examples of common elements of work encountered at IRCs.
Applicants who wished to deliver the above service must have submitted a Tender which consisted of a response to the SQ and the Derwentside IRC ITT.
This opportunity opened on 24 March 2022. The deadline for submitting a Tender was 12 noon on 25 April 2022.

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