Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will provide details of the different stages of the procurement process for the Asylum Accommodation and Support Services Contract; and when she plans to award that contract.

All Home Office contracts are tendered in compliance with the EU Procurement Directives, which ensure that there is a transparent and equitable procurement process.The Asylum Accommodation and Support Services Contracts, which will be replacing the current suite of contracts from 2019 is utilising the Competitive Procedure with Negotiation procedure.

Contract details and procurement timescales are available at:http://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:461664-2017:TEXT:EN:HTML