Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Procurement Policy Note: Standard Selection Questionnaire (SSQ) for 2016 applies to the current procurement process for her Asylum Accommodation and Support Services Contract; and for what reasons the SSQ completion requirement was not expressly specified in its contract notice, published on 18 November 2017.

The Procurement process for the new Asylum Accommodation and Support Services Contract has recently completed its initial SSQ stage. The process is fully compliant with the Crown Commercial Service Procurement Policy Note (8/16) dated 9 September 2016, and used the Standard Selection Questionnaire (SSQ) 2016 to complete the initial stage (Request For Information) which is referred to at Section v1.3 of the contract notice, published on 18 November 2017.