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<p>On the 5 June 2019 I wrote to the Justice Select Committee to provide an update
on the modernisation of the prison estate. In that letter, which I will place a copy
of in the House Library, I confirmed the six bidders (G4S Care and Custody Services
UK Limited, Interserve Investments Limited, Management and Training Corporation Works
Limited, Mitie Care & Custody, Serco Limited, and Sodexo Limited) who had been
accepted on to the Prison Operator Services Framework and who are now eligible to
bid in future mini-competitions to operate individual prisons. We intend to launch
the mini-competition for the first new Resettlement Prison at Wellingborough in July
2019 and anticipate making the award to the successful operator in July 2020.</p><p>
</p><p>The Government is committed to a mixed market of custodial services. The Prison
Operator Framework will increase the diversity and resilience of the custodial services
market in England and Wales, by creating a pool of prison operators who can provide
high quality, value for money, custodial and maintenance services and enable us to
effectively and efficiently manage a pipeline of competition over the next six years.</p>
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