Homicide Services - 2023 - 2027

This notice launches the competition for the provision of Homicide Services 2023 - 2027.

Homicide Services primary goals are to:

Support individuals affected by the Homicide of a loved one, or those who have been an Eyewitness to Homicide, by providing Emotional, Practical, Advocacy, and Peer Support as well as access to other services, tailored according to the individual's needs to help them cope, and as far as possible, recover from the impact;

support individuals residing in England and Wales following a Homicide whether committed at home or abroad (in overseas cases, the Service will provide support where the deceased is a British National). This does not include those bereaved by road traffic crime (other than vehicular murder or manslaughter);

receive notifications of Homicide cases from all police forces in England and Wales, the FCDO (in cases involving British Nationals in foreign jurisdictions), self-referrals and from third parties such as other support services and local MPs;

help deliver the Authority's obligations under the Victims' Code;

help achieve the Authority's strategic objective of swift access to justice by improving support for victims; and

help the Authority's work to align with the Prime Minister's objective, through the Crime & Justice Task Force, to significantly increase the proportion of victims who receive support when they want it.

Additional information: The services being awarded are listed within Schedule 3 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (PCR) and so pursuant to regulation 74 will be subject to the light regime under which the Authority is not obliged to comply with the full requirements of the PCR. The Authority will conduct an Restricted Procedure and will comply with its obligations of equal treatment, transparency, non-discrimination and proportionality at all times during the procurement.

2. QUALITATIVE ASSESSMENT: Details of the objective criteria for selecting those who will be invited to tender and an eventual winning bidder will be set out in the procurement documents.

3. ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL ASSESSMENT Details of the Authority's approach to Economic and Financial assessment will be set out in the procurement documents.

4 AWARD CRITERIA: The award criteria at ITT will be based on the Most Economically Advantageous Tender (MEAT), evaluated on a Price per Quality Point (PQP) basis. Variant bids will not be permitted

5.REGISTRATION: The Authority will be performing events through its e-Sourcing Portal known as Jaggaer. The e-Sourcing Portal is an online application that allows all potential suppliers to create and submit their responses to any SQ and tenders via the internet.

Bidders Instructions to express an interest in this tender 1). Login to the Portal with the username/password. 2) Click the 'PQQs / ITTs Open To All Suppliers' link. (These are pre-qualification questionnaires or invitations to tender open to any registered supplier). 3) Click on the relevant SQ/ ITT to access the content using the following: Project Code - PRJ_7277 ITT Code - PQQ_282

4). Click the Express Interest button at the top of the page. This will move the SQ/ITT into your My SQ/ITTs page. This is a secure area reserved for your projects only.

5) You can now access any attachments by clicking Buyer Attachments in the PQQ/ITT Details box. Instructions on how to submit a tender will be provided.