Detained Duty Advice Scheme Services at Derwentside from 1 January 2022

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 a minimum of 3 organisations but there is no upper limit on the number of organisations that may be awarded IRC Exclusive Schedules under this procurement process.

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 are not eligible to bid as they will 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 22 July 2021. The deadline for submitting a Tender is 12 noon on 23 August 2021.

Additional information: Organisations should note that the estimated contract value covers both contract work to be delivered at Derwentside IRC and also Immigration and Asylum Contract work where the LAA awards a contract through this procurement process. The estimated value of the work at Derwentside IRC is £167k and the estimated value of the Immigration and Asylum contract work is £968k. All figures are based on the maximum possible length of the contract i.e. 8 month initial term and possible 12 month extension.