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Immigration detained advice bid round
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About this tender
Following the successful pilot of two schemes for detained asylum seekers and immigrants, the LSC has confirmed that these schemes are to become a permanent part of the legal aid service, by inviting organisations to tender to deliver the work.
The tender closed on Friday 4 January 2008. Applications received after this date will not be considered.
About the process
Invitations to tender are launched for the delivery of specialist, high quality and easily accessible services for advice and representation at:
- police stations
- immigration Removal Centres (IRCs).
Two successful pilots have informed the development of the model we are now running tender rounds for:
See Documents for the Information for Applicants and the tender forms. These contain information on:
- the services we are seeking to procure
- how to submit tenders.
Police Station Immigration telephone advice
The pilot was set up on 12 June 2006 to address an advice gap. Individuals detained at the police stations often faced difficulty in accessing civil immigration advice, particularly outside office hours and weekends.
The pilot has successfully provided telephone advice to clients 24/7. Going forward, the service will run from 7am to midnight.
The scheme is designed to allow clients to:
- clarify their rights and legal position on their immigration status
- clarify any actions they may need to take
- understand what is likely to happen to them and, in some cases resolve the matter without the need for further representation.
Immigration Removal Centre advice
This scheme will operate as
- an onsite advice surgery (two days a week in each Immigration Removal Centre)
- a fast track duty service providing advice/representation to clients whose asylum applications are subject to the Home Office Fast Track process.
The Fast Track service will operate only in Harmondsworth and Yarls Wood Immigration Removal Centre (IRC).
List of documents
Please see the Documents panel for:
- Notice of changes
- Frequently Asked Questions
- a summary of invitations to tender
- information for applicants
- tender forms.
Updates
Important: notice of changes
We have now published on this website all the tender documents you need to submit your tender/s for the immigration services we wish to procure. These services are set out in the two Information for Applicants (IFA) documents.
We have corrected three errors in the documentation and published the correct versions in the Documents panel on the right hand side of this page.
Please refer to the Notice of Changes document for details of these amendments to the IFA and tender forms.
We have also replaced the PDF copies of the tender forms with Word copies. This means providers can submit bids via email.
Frequently asked questions
We have now produced two separate FAQ documents:
- one for the Immigration Removal Centre advice tender
- one in relation to the Police Station Telephone advice tender.
Questions applicable to both schemes are can be found in both documents.
The final date for organisations to ask questions has now passed (14th December 2007). The Documents panel on the right hand side of this page contains the final version of these FAQ documents, dated 19 December 2007.
For more information
If you have questions about the tender process please email:
- the Immigration policy team
- contact your LSC regional office.
Further details will be publicised via the CLS>News & Updates pages of this website – please check back regularly.
Last updated: 14 January 2008