Framework agreement for the supply of Sewing Machines, Parts, Ancillary Items and Repair Services

This notice relates to the award of a framework agreement to supply Sewing Machines, Parts, Ancillary Items and/or Repair Services to MoJ Public Sector Prison Industries (PSPI). Suppliers will be required to source, stock and deliver as requested across the prison estate a range of goods and/or services. PSPI manage industries in 95 prisons in England and Wales, including some private sector prisons, and currently operate 465 workshops employing 1056 staff and around 11,500 prisoners and detainees. The purpose of PSPI is to help reduce the potential for prisoners to reoffend and to help PSP deliver Decent Regimes. Prison Industries continue to support other Government Departments by using offender labour to manufacture over £3million pounds worth of goods annually. This includes 64 Textile workshops, employing approximately 1900 prisoners on a daily basis producing clothing and textile products for the prison population.