Published date: 13 February 2020

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


Closing: 6 December 2019

Contract summary

Industry

  • Technical training services - 80531200

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£0

Procurement reference

tender_216849/836130

Published date

13 February 2020

Closing date

6 December 2019

Contract start date

1 January 2020

Contract end date

31 March 2022

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (below threshold)

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

This procedure can be used for procurements below the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

Modernising asset management (AM) is one of the Environment Agency's top priorities. Our Flood and Coastal Risk Management (FCRM) Asset Management Strategy 2017 to 2022 (AMS) aligns to the FCRM objectives of our corporate plan and describes what we need to do to become a world leading AM organisation.

Our AMS was approved by FCRM Business Board in January 2017. We are achieving many of the objectives of the strategy already but there is some new work still to complete, including developing staff skills and knowledge. A significant part of our strategy describes our objectives for our staff skills and knowledge, and our leadership and organisational culture.

We need to raise awareness of AM and embed it amongst our people who work on our assets. We wish to adopt an AM culture within the organisation and this will require enhanced knowledge of AM, and committed and visible leadership. This will build on existing capabilities and enable individuals to champion change, support the use of new terminologies and language, and drive the modernisation of AM. We will then be capable of making the changes needed to modernise AM and retain ISO55001 certification.

In order to recognise and demonstrate individual and corporate knowledge and understanding of AM, we wish to train and inform our key AM staff to IAM Certificate level. The IAM Certificate is aimed at Managers, Team Leaders, Senior Advisors and Advisors in Area and National roles. By training our staff in modern AM thinking we will be able to better justify, prioritise and programme where we spend our money and where we don't, and ensure our assets are more effective, efficient and resilient.

Previous demand for the IAM Certificate has been significant and we have a backlog of delegates seeking training. Area teams have organised ad-hoc, local training which, whilst meeting the objectives, is inefficient. We therefore wish to instigate a 3-year call-off contract to provide the IAM Certificate training and examination for approximately 90 FCRM AM staff. The contract will start in late 2019 and end at the end of the current AMS period in March 2022.

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Award information

Awarded date

31 December 2019

Contract start date

2 January 2020

Contract end date

1 January 2023

Total value of contract

£43,618

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Asset Management Consulting Ltd

Address

221 St John Street, Clerkenwell, London EC1V 4LY

Reference

Companies House number: 3,318,715

Supplier is SME?

Yes

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Address

Defra
London
SW1P 3JR
England

Telephone

0

Email

Network.Procurement@defra.gov.uk