Published date: 18 July 2024

Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.


Closing: 16 July 2024, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Research and development services and related consultancy services - 73000000

Location of contract

CA24 3HU

Value of contract

£200,000 to £300,000

Procurement reference

CF-0158000D4L000000iAvzUAE

Published date

18 July 2024

Closing date

16 July 2024

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

18 July 2024

Contract end date

31 March 2025

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Call-off from a framework agreement

A mini-competition or direct purchase from a pre-established framework agreement.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The NDA Group does not currently have a Group-level strategic planning capability nor an approach to model 'what if' scenarios and evaluate
their mission benefit or disbenefit at group and/or opco levels. Historically, strategic planning capabilities were held by Parent Body Organisations (PBO's) of OpCo's, with each OpCo having its own planning capability, including creating and maintaining Lifetime Plans. Today, the OpCo Lifetime Plans remain separate data sets at different states of maturity (e.g. scope, accuracy, logic, integrity of data, underpinning assumptions) preventing the simulation of 'what-if' interventions at the Group level.
To predict the impact of one or multiple 'what-if' scenarios across an aggregated picture of the estate (above the individual OpCo Lifetime Plans) will require the creation of a Group mission plan, against which scenarios can be modelled. By creating a Group
planning capability around this Group mission plan, we will be able to model and consider group portfolio trade-offs and inter-group dependencies and translate our strategic decisions into delivery through OpCo delivery plans.
To respond to this need and realise the benefits of the OneNDA model and closer working relationships, the group has confirmed the need to develop a Group planning capability, which will be the objective of a multi-year Beacon Project commencing in April 2024.
We aim to design and implement a consistent Group-level approach to planning, driven by quality financial and operational / activity data. It will consider how all elements of planning across the group are conducted and how various elements contribute to meeting the NDA mission. Beyond the work completed to date, below describes the further development work required to successfully deliver Year 1 of the Beacon Project and the associated
'Stretch' measures/commitments made in the Group Key Target (GKT):
This engagement has two primary objectives:
1. To support the Beacon project working group to identify, design and implement a suite
of management arrangements to establish and maintain the initial group planning
capability and Group Mission Plan upon which it relies.
2. To design and facilitate to conclusion, a scenario modelling event that considers one
scenario (likely comprising several interventions) in order to determine and present in
a report the mission benefits and disbenefits of said scenario in

Award information

Awarded date

18 July 2024

Contract start date

18 July 2024

Contract end date

31 March 2025

Total value of contract

£229,683

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

TUV SUD Ltd

Address

Napier Building, Scottish Enterprise Technology Park, East Kilbride, Glasgow. United Kingdom, East Kilbride, G75 0QF

Reference

None

Supplier is SME?

No

About the buyer

Contact name

Ambar Saeed

Address

Herdus House, Moor Row
Cumbria
CA24 3HU
GB

Telephone

+44 1925802056

Email

ambar.saeed@nda.gov.uk