Published date: 20 September 2016

Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.


Closing: 14 October 2016

Contract summary

Industry

  • Foreign-affairs services - 75211000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£6,000,000

Procurement reference

DFID 7723

Published date

20 September 2016

Closing date

14 October 2016

Contract start date

1 January 2017

Contract end date

30 June 2020

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

The actual CPV code is '75211200 Foreign Economic-Aid Related Services'.

As part of its support to Government of Sierra Leone's (GoSL) efforts to tackle gender inequality, DFID has approved a four year Support to Adolescent Girls Empowerment (SAGE) programme to respond to the multiple and inter-related disadvantages that adolescent girls in Sierra Leone continue to experience and which restrict their life chances.

The Support to Adolescent Girls Empowerment programme (BC approved 6th June 2016) delivers a combination of interventions to support the social and economic empowerment of vulnerable adolescent girls in Sierra Leone. It will also contribute to the building of community-level commitment to the protection and empowerment of adolescent girls. The business case has four components.

The first two will be managed through an Accountable Grant and MoU respectively and the latter two through a contracted Supplier. The components are:
1. A safe spaces programme implemented by BRAC Sierra Leone;
2. Sexual and reproductive health and protection services delivered by UNFPA;
3. Support for the implementation of the National FGM Reduction Strategy;
4. A flexible fund to provide small grants for innovative or strategic initiatives that have the potential to empower adolescent girls It is proposed that the Supplier will manage a Strategic Opportunities Catalytic (SOC) Fund which will have two strands.

The first will provide technical assistance to the Government of Sierra Leone for the implementation of their National Strategy for the Reduction of FGM/C. (£4 million).

The second will provide a flexible fund to deliver grants in support of initiatives which offer innovative or catalytic potential to contribute to the social and economic empowerment of adolescent girls.

The fund will be open to local or international civil society actors as well as to the Ministry of Social Welfare, Gender and Children's Affairs once the specific eligibility criteria are met (£2 million).

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About the buyer

Contact name

Tony McCluskey

Address

Department for International Development (DFID)
Abercrombie House, Eaglesham Road
East Kilbride
G75 8EA
Scotland

Telephone

+44 (0)1355 84 3345

Email

a-mccluskey@dfid.gov.uk

Website

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-international-development