Published date: 15 June 2021

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


Closing: 1 March 2021, 11:59pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Legal advisory and information services - 79140000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£119,145

Procurement reference

tender_224047/972195

Published date

15 June 2021

Closing date

1 March 2021

Closing time

11:59pm

Contract start date

1 April 2021

Contract end date

30 September 2021

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?

Yes

Description

Business Partner role responsibilities:
Directly supporting a SRO in delivery of their assigned EU Exit Programme by;

- Advocating and demonstrating the value of good project discipline via the application of effective project controls and standard project tools
- Supporting the adoption and embedding of agreed project standards and tools, including educating teams/ individuals in the benefits of effective and consistent application where appropriate
- Facilitating access to expert support following effective diagnosis of business need or problem
- Providing delivery context by helping teams/ individuals to connect with the 'bigger picture' at portfolio, Defra group or government level
- Encouraging and facilitating problem-solving to overcome barriers to delivery.
- Gathering and sharing intelligence (from projects and from the PMO perspective) to expose common/ shared challenges and drive portfolio-level solutions.
- Helping teams/ individuals to surface project risks and issues and identify and execute appropriate mitigations/ actions to address.
- Capturing and sharing the learning, whilst finding ways to convert into process improvements that benefit all projects
- Acting as interpreter in helping business units to translate EU Exit Delivery Group demands/ requirements into actionable and value-adding delivery or assurance activity
- Enabling two-way engagement between the projects and the EU Exit Delivery Group; ensuring that delivery concerns are heard, challenged where appropriate and acted on.
- Articulating and exemplifying 'what good looks like' in terms of project delivery, governance and reporting (including risk and issue management)
- Setting a high standard and demanding the best of the teams/ individuals; providing constructive challenge where quality is compromised or delivery engagement is low
- Driving delivery actions and decisions towards the appropriate role/ governance group; supporting SROs, Project Leads and Project Managers to deliver their accountabilities and responsibilities
- Accepting responsibility (on behalf of the PMO) when things have gone wrong, and taking ownership for finding a solution/ fixing issues
- Identifying and highlighting gaps in capacity and/ or capability and working with senior leaders to identify solutions.

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Award information

Awarded date

1 April 2021

Contract start date

1 April 2021

Contract end date

30 September 2021

Total value of contract

£119,145

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Allen Lane Limited

Address

33 King Street, St. James's, London, SW1Y 6RJ

Reference

No reference - other

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Address

Nobel House
London
SP1J 3JR
England

Email

network.procurement@defra.gov.uk