Justice written question – answered at on 17 October 2011.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how much (a) his Department, (b) the Prison Service bids unit and (c) its other agencies and non-departmental bodies spent on (i) staff, (ii) travel and subsistence and (iii) other costs in respect of the competition to run HM Prison (A) Featherstone II, (B) Buckley Hall, (C) Birmingham and (D) Wellingborough.
I will write to the right hon. Member with details of actual aggregate spending relating to the competitions held for HMP Birmingham, HMP Buckley Hall, HMP Doncaster, HMP Featherstone 2 and HMP Wellingborough, The Ministry of Justice does not hold the requested information for each of the individual competitions for the five establishments.
Estimated or forecast spending on the prison competitions for HMP Birmingham, HMP Buckley Hall, HMP Doncaster, HMP Featherstone 2 and HMP Wellingborough, together with underpinning caveats and assumptions, is detailed as follows. All costs are given to two significant figures.
(A) For their contribution to the work on the competitions for the five prisons named above, we forecast that the combined spending of Ministry of Justice Procurement and Ministry of Justice ICT will be:
(i) £1,070,000 on staff;
(ii) £0 on travel and subsistence; and
(iii) £1,600,000 on other costs.
Operational input to supplier dialogue and evaluation phase have been excluded from this cost model.
(B) The overall agreed value of the Public Sector Bids Unit/Business Development Unit for prison competitions was £1,100,000.
An agreed value was used in bidding, as the cost of the Public Sector Bids Unit/Business Development Unit was not identified separately by expenditure or by Public Sector Bids Unit/Business Development Unit itself within the accounts. No local cost tracking was undertaken. Delays in the bidding process added costs to the Public Sector Bids Unit/Business Development Unit, although the work undertaken could not be directly attributed to the above bids.
Public Sector Bids Unit/Business Development Unit costs for HMP Wellingborough and HMP Doncaster ceased when MoJ Procurement stopped developing the relevant bids. Work on HMP Birmingham and HMP Featherstone 2 stopped when the announcement of contract award for these two prisons was made on
(C) For their contribution to the work on the competitions for the five prisons named above, we forecast that the combined spending of NOMS Business and Service Development Group, Estates, and NOMS ICT will be:
(i) £1,300,000 on staff;
(ii) £70,000 on travel and subsistence; and
(iii) £700,000 on other costs.
Operational input to supplier dialogue and evaluation phase have been excluded from this cost model.
Some teams in NOMS were deployed to these prison competitions from other work, including during evaluation stages in the procurement phase. The Department has not accounted for this potential opportunity cost.
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