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Contract alert: Providing integration and employment services to refugees
2 October 2007
The Home Office's Border and Immigration Agency is running a competition to award contracts for the delivery of a Refugee Integration and Employment Service.
The key objective of the programme is to facilitate the integration of new refugees. A 'refugee' is defined as a person recognised under the 1951 UN Convention relating to the status of refugees, and those granted humanitarian protection.
The programme will make available a standard set of services to all new refugees wherever they live in the United Kingdom – enabling them to achieve their full potential, contribute to the community and exercise the rights and responsibilities that they share with other residents.
The Refugee Integration and Employment Service will consist of three distinct but complimentary service components:
- an employment advice service
- a mentoring service
- a general advice and support service
The Authority intends to let contracts on a regional basis, for a period of 3 years.
Expressions of interest are required to be received by 26 October 2007 by way of a completed Pre Qualification Questionnaire which will be evaluated to assess your organisation's capacity and experience to deliver these services.
The Pre Qualification Questionnaire can be obtained by registering through the Home Office's eSourcing Portal (new window).
Once you have registered, you can access more information and the PQQ at the Current Opportunities page on the eSourcing Portal (new window).
Background information can also be found on the TED website: http://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:226156-2007:TEXT:EN:HTML (new window)
