Expert Advisory Call Down Services

A Voluntary Ex-Ante Transparency (VEAT) Notice
by FOREIGN COMMONWEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT OFFICE

Source: OJEU
Type: Framework (Services)
Duration: 2 year (est.)
Value: £60M

Sector: DEFENCE
Published: 19 Mar 2021
Delivery: To 19 Mar 2023 (est.)
Deadline: n/a

Concepts

Location

East Kilbride

Geochart for 3 buyers and 3 suppliers

3 buyers

Foreign Commonwealth & Development Office East Kilbride

3 suppliers

Description

This notice is to inform on FCDO's intention to extend current expert advisory call down services framework agreement until 14 October 2022, to ensure service continuity whilst a replacement framework is scoped. This framework which was originally awarded in 2016, enabling FCDO and other government departments access to a framework of qualified pre-selected suppliers, in order to ensure the provision of products, services and call-off arrangements in cases of urgency, lack of appropriate internal capability, or the need for highly specialised expertise, as funded by ODA and delivered by FCDO and Other Government Departments (OGDs) in the development of programme design and development, business case development, independent advice/inputs into new and innovative thinking and products and rapid provision of technical advisers to fill gaps on specific assignments where there is a time-sensitive need.

Lot Division

Lot B: Strengthening Resilience and Response to Crises

This framework provides rapid, quality-assured, short-term technical expertise in in order to ensure that our policies and programmes are well designed and managed, achieving maximum impact and value for money to support the development of UK aid programmes. Lot B covers strengthening resilience and response to crises which includes demand for expertise in the following areas, which can be further mainstreamed in issues such as gender, politics, value for money, monitoring, climate change and conflict. 1) Design, delivery and monitoring of risk informed development investments across key sectors (including health, nutrition, social protection, education, food security, livelihoods, private sector and infrastructure; 2) Humanitarian; 3) Informing and developing responses to the changing nature of systems and society.

Lot C: Promoting Global Prosperity

This framework provides rapid, quality-assured, short-term technical expertise in in order to ensure that FCDO ODA policies and programmes are well designed and managed, achieving maximum impact and value for money to support the development of UK aid programmes. Lot C covers promoting global prosperity which includes demand for expertise in the following areas, and that can be further mainstreamed in issues such as gender, politics, value for money, monitoring, climate change and conflict. 1) Applied economics; 2) Trade and FDI; 3) Private sector development instruments and approaches; 4) Inclusive growth; 5) Infrastructure for economic growth and prosperity; 6) Agriculture.

Lot D: Tackling Extreme Poverty and Helping the World’s Most Vulnerable

This framework provides rapid, quality-assured, short-term technical expertise in in order to ensure that FCDO ODA policies and programmes are well designed and managed, achieving maximum impact and value for money to support the development of UK aid programmes. Lot D covers Tackling extreme poverty and helping the world’s most vulnerable which includes demand for expertise in the following areas, and that can be further mainstreamed in issues such as gender, politics, value for money, monitoring, climate change and conflict. 1) Tackling exclusion; 2) Cross-cutting issues: social norms and attitudinal and behaviour change and early childhood development.

Award Detail

1	DAI Global (Apsley) Lot B: Strengthening Resilience and Response to Crises Reference: 1 Value: £20,000,000
2	IMC Worldwide (Surrey) Lot C Promoting Global Prosperity Reference: 2 Value: £20,000,000 Contractor is an SME.
3	Oxford Policy Management (Oxford) Lot D Tackling Extreme Poverty and Helping the World’s Most Vulnerable Reference: 3 Value: £20,000,000

CPV Codes

75211200 - Foreign economic-aid-related services
73220000 - Development consultancy services

Indicators

Award on basis of price and quality.

Legal Justification

The expert advisory call down services framework was awarded in 2016 for a 4-year period. Due the merger of DFID and FCO in September 2020, we seek to extend the current contract, to provide time to ensure that a scope that meets the business needs of the new department is taken into account and is in line with the renewed Ministerial priorities post-merger. The current contract is being extended with no increase to value, to ensure there is no gap in service and with a view to finalising scope and retendering the services over the next 6 to 12 months. Therefore under Regulation 72 B (ii) would cause significant inconvenience or substantial duplication of costs for the contracting authority, and provided that any increase in price does not exceed 50 % of the value of the original contract, we seek to extend to allow for retendering.

Reference

OJEU 140294-2021