Detained Duty Advice Scheme Services at Derwentside from 1 July 2022

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

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.