UK5 - Transparency Notice - Pilot for Identifying Unmet Needs Between Local Authorities and Probation Services
Buyer: Ministry of Justice
- Published
- 30 December 2025
- Estimated value
- £800,000
- Place of performance
- UK
- Procedure
- Direct award
- Lots
- 1
- Notice number
- 086451-2025
- Reference
- ocds-h6vhtk-05fe36
- Official source
- Official source
CPV codes
- 72300000Data services
Description
The Secretary of State for Justice (“MOJ”) has a strategic objective to reduce reoffending and improve public protection by enabling more effective, data-informed decision-making within probation services. HMPPS have expressed the need for a pilot in which a supplier will test the hypothesis that access to Local Authority data will add capacity into the probation system and enable frontline staff to perform their feasibility of surfacing cross-system data to probation officers and commissioners. The insights generated will support risk and needs assessments, sentence planning, and commissioning decisions. The Ministry of Justice intends to award a contract to Newton Consulting Limited (the “Supplier”) for 6 months (plus optional 3 month extension) at a maximum contract value of £800,000 to test whether: (a) Local Authorities (“LA”) hold data on unmet need that can drive effectiveness in sentence management for use by probation practitioners; and (b) HMPPS can serve that data to probation services. The supplier is required to design and deliver a pilot that enables probation services to access cross-system data such as mental health, housing, education, and substance misuse indicat…
Awards
| Awarded to | Amount | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Newton Consulting Ltd. | £800,000 | — |
Official publications
- FTS · 086451-2025 · 30 December 2025
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