Published date: 27 March 2017

Last edited date: 27 March 2017

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


Closing: 17 February 2017

Contract summary

Industry

  • Business and management consultancy services - 79410000

Location of contract

West Midlands, London

Value of contract

£0 to £38,218

Procurement reference

PROC.01.0550

Published date

27 March 2017

Closing date

17 February 2017

Contract start date

28 February 2017

Contract end date

31 March 2017

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Other:

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

Ofwat has limited dedicated internal modelling resource, and this is currently mainly focussed on the development of the financial model for PR19. The objective of this contract is therefore to use external support to develop detailed, Ofwat specific, guidance on model quality assurance. The scope of the work is to develop:

• QA approach - documentation describing an Ofwat-specific quality assurance approach that reflects best practice, including where relevant, guidance from the Aqua Book, IEEE 1028, academic research and industry.
• Scoring spreadsheet - an easy to use spreadsheet tool that can be used to quantitatively assess the quality of spreadsheet model. Ofwat has a copy of a spreadsheet scoring system originally developed by DECC and has started to adapt this to our needs. These will be shared with the successful bidder.
• Quality assurance training material - Ofwat plans to deliver some in-house training courses on quality assurance. These are expected to be circa 3.5 hours long. Course material is required to that can be used to deliver these training courses.

It should be noted that the successful contractor will not be required to deliver any of the training courses - these will be delivered by Ofwat staff after the contract has finished.

The work needs to be delivered quickly so that training courses can be delivered in April to July 2017.

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Award information

Awarded date

23 February 2017

Contract start date

28 February 2017

Contract end date

31 March 2017

Total value of contract

£38,218

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Grant Thornton UK LLP

Address

30 Finsbury Square
London
EC2P 2YU

Reference

None

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Address

Centre City Tower
7 Hill Street
Birmingham
B5 4UA
England

Email

mailbox@ofwat.gsi.gov.uk