Detention Services Provider Contract
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The department entered into a detention services contract with Group 4 Falck Global Solutions Pty Ltd (Group 4) on 27 August 2003.
What is the significance?
The contract governs the delivery of immigration detention services in Australia on behalf of the Australian Government. The signing of the contract marked the end of a rigorous tender process.
Recommendations of various bodies, such as the IDAG, and reports, such as the Flood and Ombudsman's reports, were incorporated within the contract.
See: The Immigration Detention Advisory Group (IDAG)
What was achieved?
The 2003 contract replaces the detention services contract entered into with Australasian Correctional Services Pty Ltd in February 1998.
Requests for tenders for detention and health services
Three Requests for Tender were released to the market on 24 May 2007:
- Provision of Detention Services in Relation to People in Detention at Immigration Detention Centres
- Provision of Health Services in Relation to People in Detention
- Provision of Detention Services in Relation to People in Detention at Immigration Residential Housing and Immigration Transit Accommodation.