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Assistance to the EC Delegation for the tendering of the vocational training equipment to be procured for 90 prisons of Turkey

Turkey

European Commission

Turkish government

In the course of progress towards accession to the European Union and in response to the obligations of the acquis of the EU and its Member States, the Turkish Government, has adopted new penal codes. These new codes, provides the statutory framework for a range of new penal measures and practices which are humane and constructive offering to the both prison staff and prisoners modern, professional and humane services. These reforms represent an important part of the reform of the Turkish criminal justice system. To support the efforts of Turkey in this reform process, the European Union is contributing with a project “TR0702.18/Dissemination of Model Prison Practices and Promotion of the Prison Reform in Turkey” supporting the improvement of the penitentiary system in Turkey in line with European Prison Rules and international standards. By the end of the project it is expected that 90 model prisons will be operating in compliance with European Prison Rules and international standards. In this regard, 90 large capacity prisons (high and medium security prisons including F-types) have been selected within the context of this project. In addition to provision of intensive training to the staff of these prisons (an important number of staff will be newly recruited), vocational training workshops/ateliers and educational facilities (including support to prison libraries) for inmates will be established. The number of these workshops has already been determined as 270 (3 for each prison) for 17 different group of fields. The supply tender for the procurement for these workshop/atelier equipments is planned to be launched by mid 2010. The tender dossier, clarifications/corrigenda to the tender dossier and the evaluation report will be prepared by the Central Finance and Contracts Unit (CFCU. The overall objective is to contribute to the improvement of the penitentiary system in Turkey in line with the European Prison Rules (EPR) and other international standards. The specific objective is providing technical assistance to the EC Delegation (ECD) to the related supply tender of the project.

Start date: 2010-03-01

End date: 2010-07-31