CAT/OP/ARG/1/Add.1 constant contact with the Contracts Directorate through the Unified Local System computing programme, an online system used to upload data on all stages of the tendering process. 64. With regard to the execution of contracts, the reception commission, chief of administration and director of each prison are responsible for applying the set of instructions “supplies 008, reception commission 06”. 3. Activities 65. The National Directorate of the Federal Prison Service considers education and work to be a fundamental part of rehabilitation, constituting a right and duty of persons deprived of their liberty and benefiting their development. Therefore, all persons deprived of their liberty in the federal system have access to various educational and work opportunities in the workshops located in each prison. The main objective is to give detainees training that can be applied after release from prison. 66. The educational policy fully complies with the provisions of Act No. 20416, in accordance with Acts Nos. 24660 and 26695, the educational coordination of vocational training set out in chapter VII, article 114, of Act No. 24660, and the provisions of the National Education Act (No. 26206) in general, and the stipulations of chapter XII, articles 55 to 59, of that Act in particular. 67. Persons deprived of their liberty receive formal and informal education and cultural activities in all federal prisons. Currently, out of 9,955 persons deprived of their liberty, 6,909 receive primary, secondary, tertiary or university education, that is to say, 69.4 per cent of the prison population is undergoing formal education. Agreements have been made with the various education authorities that provide formal education. Informal education comprises vocational training, physical training and sport and cultural activities. 68. The National Prison Work Programme operates within the Under-Secretariat for Prison Management with the aim of promoting the right of detainees to work, encouraging participants to produce goods, and advocating a strong work ethic as a vital tool for social resettlement in the outside world. 4. Isolation regime 69. The Federal Prison Service has separate areas that provide temporary accommodation for detainees in certain circumstances, which does not constitute segregation. For example, there are wings to house new prisoners while they are being evaluated by different departments, such as criminology, education, work, social welfare and the medical service, before being assigned suitable accommodation. 70. Persons deprived of their liberty are placed in provisional isolation only when they have committed an offence that appears prima facie to be a serious breach of the disciplinary system, or to maintain order or to safeguard personal safety, or to clarify the facts, on the orders of the prison director, in accordance with Decree No. 18/97 on Regulations for the Discipline of Inmates. 71. The Protocol for the Implementation of Protection Measures for Especially Vulnerable Persons is currently being implemented and is the outcome of the efforts of the working group on protecting physical integrity, established on 14 May 2012 under Official Gazette No. 456. The Protocol defines protection measures as exceptional, subsidiary, limited in time, subject to periodic monitoring and designed for the benefit of detainees. The measures aim to strengthen the protection of the physical and psychological safety of persons deprived of their liberty. 14 GE.14-40297