The Ministry of Justice selected Carillion and Amey as its preferred bidders in November for four regional prison maintenance contracts. From 1st June they will provide a range of hard and soft facilities management services to the National Offender Management Service for public sector prisons.
Carillion announced today that it has now signed its two contracts, for lot 3: east of England & London and lot 4: southwest, south central, Kent & Sussex.
Amey is lined up for lot 1: northeast, northwest, Yorkshire & Humber and lot 2: East Midlands, West Midlands & Wales.
Carillion said that its two contracts cover approximately 50 prisons. The contracts are for an initial five-year period, but with the potential for two subsequent one-year extensions, subject to satisfactory performance.
The Ministry of Justice is also contracting out probation and rehabilitation services, divvied up into 21 regional contracts. Carillion submitted bids for 12 of these but did not get any. Interserve’s Purple Futures consortium won five of them, however. (See previous report here.)
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