Proofreading and Editorial Services

Home Office Analysis and Insight (HOAI) works to ensure that Home Office policy and operational delivery are properly supported by effective evidence and analysis, in order to inform and improve policy development, implementation and operational effectiveness.

HOAI produces a range of documents for publication on the Government Website (GOV.UK).These documents require specialist preparation including proofreading and editorial work.

The services required to support this activity are:

• Basic proofreading and copy editing.
• Complex technical editing, formatting using templates.
• Writing and project management.

HOAI requires potential providers to provide proofreading and editorial services for the preparation of government publications on an ad-hoc/as required basis.

Potential providers are required to outline their experience in this type of work as part of their bid proposal.

To participate in this opportunity, you must first register your organisation to the Home Office eSourcing portal through which this tender will be run, the link is: https://homeoffice.app.jaggaer.com/web/login.html. Please note from this home page the details of the eSourcing Helpdesk should you have issues with registration or submitting a response once the tender is live. Please ensure that you complete registration to the portal AND confirm your successful registration by emailing HOSprocurement@homeoffice.gov.uk no later than 17:00, Tuesday 14th September 2021. Please in the subject line of your email reference "C21759". When the tender is ready to be published, you'll receive an automated alert and be able to enter the tender tool to respond to this opportunity.

The contract is for 36 months, with the option to extend for a further 12 months (time only).

Additional information: The procurement exercise will offer contracts to 2 suppliers; these 2 suppliers will work separately of each other and report to HOAI; both suppliers should be able to provide the services set out in the Requirement.

The work will be allocated as evenly as possible to the 2 suppliers, however, as this is a call off contract, no volume of work is guaranteed. Where a supplier is unable to accept work due to capacity issues, this will then be offered to the other supplier.