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Prison Officers outside the Midlands Prison Portlaoise.
The Irish Prison Service (IPS) intends to establish is inviting companies to bid for the contract to provide pre-retirement courses to prison officers and other staff at jails in Portlaoise and elsewhere in Ireland.
Tender documents say that the Service wants to provide a two day Pre-Retirement Planning Course to up to 500 Irish Prison Service staff up to 2025.
The objective is to prepare staff and a spouse, partner or close relative or friend, who are approaching retirement within 12 months or who have recently retired, following significant service working in a "stressful prison environment", with what is described as a "holistic approach" to retirement planning
The IPS says the 'bespoke' pre-retirement planning courses will be required to be delivered in various contracted hotels around Ireland.
The tender documents says there will be an estimated 400 - 500 participants over the course of the contract. The IPS estimates that 120 staff are expected to retire from 2022 to 2025. The number for 2022 includes a backlog.
A number of pilot Pre-Retirement Planning Courses will be held in a number of locations in order to clear the backlog of
applications.
It is envisaged that maximum spend under this framework agreement will not exceed €140,000 excluding VAT.
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