Home Office Reintegration Programme - Phase 2 - FY 2025-28

The United Kingdom Home Department (Home Office) is intending to deliver reintegration support to Returning Individuals from the UK in eleven countries: • Albania • Bangladesh • Ethiopia • Ghana • India • Iraq • Jamaica • Nigeria • Pakistan • Vietnam • Zimbabwe

BACKGROUND To support the United Kingdom Home Department (Home Office) key priorities of tackling illegal migration, removing those with no right to be here, and protecting the vulnerable, the department is seeking a provider to deliver reintegration services to support Returning Individuals from the United Kingdom (UK) to the eleven countries listed above. The department has a budget of £15,000,000 for the funding period and therefore, invite interested bidders to provide an approximate cost of 100 Returning Individuals, per country. Please note that this is an indicative figure only and provision of support to Returning Individuals could be more or less than this number. Reintegration is a key component of Objective 21 of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration: 'cooperate in facilitating safe and dignified return and readmission, as well as sustainable reintegration', with the Home Office seeking to reduce the burden on receiving states and help individuals to become more self-sufficient following their return. PURPOSE OF THE FUNDING • Produce a pre-departure information sheet (containing country-specific information) enabling the opportunity to contact the Recipient directly. • Produce relevant pre-departure communications for Returning Individuals, including video, audio, social media, and marketing communications. • Airport reception provision for Returning Individuals to address immediate needs (for charters and upon request for scheduled flights). • Cash assistance to meet immediate needs. • Residential accommodation for up to 5 nights following arrival (with the option of an additional 5 nights subject to individual circumstances). • Transportation to an onward destination in-country. • Provision of care and food packs. • Assistance with family tracing and reunification services. • Support with in-country redocumentation requirements. • Mental Health wellbeing and counselling (where required). • Support with accessing the job market. • Access to the Returnee Education and Entrepreneurship fund (REEF) for: o support with setting up a business; or o support with accessing vocational training or further education.

• Hosting workshops and/or mentorship programmes to upskill Returning Individuals. • Legal migration pathways and ethical recruitment. • Effective monitoring and evaluation of Returning Individuals reintegration outcomes.

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA OF BIDDERS The Home Office invites bids from non-statutory sector organisations that are charities and non-profit making organisations in England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and overseas. Bids for funding are welcomed from single organisations or multi-organisation consortiums and partnerships.

Additional information: How to register In order to bid for funding, bidders will first need to register on the Home Office (HO) Jaggaer portal via the following link: https://homeoffice.app.jaggaer.com/web/login.html Bidders should be approved for usage within 24 hours of registering on the system. After clicking on the eSourcing portal link, it should take you to the home page. On the left-hand side of this page, just below the login boxes, there is an option to register. To register as a supplier, you will need to provide information which will include: • the full legal name of your organisation; • your DUNS number - a unique nine-digit number provided to organisations free of charge by Dun & Bradstreet (if you are an international organisation, and do not have a DUNS number, please email [email protected] ); and • profile information describing your organisation and the size of your business.

Once registered as a supplier on the portal, please send a notification e-mail to [email protected] and request access to the associated documents for the Home Office Reintegration Programme competition.

Email to include: Email subject line "Reintegration Programme - Portal Access." Organisation name (as registered on Jaggaer). Organisation type. Contact name (as registered on Jaggaer). E-mail address. Country Lot(s) you are bidding for.

If you have any difficulties registering on the system, then you should contact the Supplier eSourcing Helpdesk: [email protected]

The HO Jaggaer eSourcing portal is independent of other eSourcing portals. Therefore, if you have registered on the Crown Commercial Service Jaggaer eSourcing portal, you will also need to register on the HO Jaggaer eSourcing portal.

Please note that bids will only be accepted via the HO eSourcing portal. Any bids received outside of this system will not be considered.

Please note that registering for access to the eSourcing portal will not make you a Home Office supplier. To be considered for the award of funding you must first respond to an opportunity.

Further information about procurement at the Home Office can be found on the gov.uk website.