GEO UK Joint Venture - GEOAmey Wins Ron Champion, Corporate Dr. George Zoley and Ann Beasley, Director General, Corporate & Finance Services, Ministry of Justice HQ.
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with an integrated solution based upon GEO’s custodial management and offender transportation expertise and Amey’s fleet management and dispatch experience.
is expected to employ approximately 3,000 professionals who will be responsible for over 460 vehicles and approximately 2,600 daily prisoner movements.
GEO developed a joint venture with a UK transport and services company, Amey. This joint venture will provide the government
Prisoner Escort and Custody Services involve the movement of prisoners and provision of escort services in England and Wales, including police stations, prisons, and courts as well as the provision of custody for prisoners in court holding cells and courtrooms. The GEOAmey joint venture
The provision of these services is divided into four geographical areas of England and Wales. GEOAmey submitted a proposal for three of the four areas and was selected for all three areas bid. This award represents the largest award by the MOJ to one service contractor.
hrough its wholly-owned subsidiary, The GEO Group UK Ltd., and its newly formed joint venture GEOAmey, The GEO Group, Inc. was awarded three contracts by the UK Ministry of Justice (MOJ) for Prisoner Escort and Custody Services (PECS) in England and Wales.
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