Published date: 26 January 2017

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


Closing: 2 November 2016

Contract summary

Industry

  • Foreign economic-aid-related services - 75211200

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£964,655

Procurement reference

DFID 7732 Contract

Published date

26 January 2017

Closing date

2 November 2016

Contract start date

14 November 2016

Contract end date

31 May 2017

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Not applicable

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

The scope and focus of the assignment is to provide technical, strategic and implementation support for 1) conducting a bottoms-up verification of existing teacher payrolls and 2) delivering a clean payroll to MEST and the TSC to manage which is accepted by all key stakeholders.

The task will include the following:

"Bottom-up" cleaning the payroll: Process focused on detailed, school-by-school verification of all educators to ensure 1) "false data records" are removed from wage vouchers, 2) all teacher qualifications are updated to ensure fair pay and administrative understanding of qualified teacher gaps in the future. Based on best practices and past experiences from Sierra Leone, there is a need to urgently develop a holistic strategy and plan for how this "bottom up" cleaning process will happen.

Scope will include:

Collaborating with MEST, TSC, and PDT governance teams to develop a methodology and detailed processes for cleaning payroll based on experiences from other countries as well as past experiences in Sierra Leone.

Collaborating with MEST, TSC, and PDT governance teams to develop and roll out a stakeholder management and communications strategy. This will include sharing objectives, goals, and timelines for the payroll cleaning verification with the Conference of Principals, the Head Teachers' Council, and Sierra Leone Teachers' Union.

Involving donor partners for input on the outlined strategy, process, approach, risk mitigation plan, and responsibilities for execution.

Performing "bottom up" payroll cleaning process, and verifying teachers against teachers listed on wage vouchers.
Developing and managing a process to verify legitimate teachers who have been mistakenly removed from the payroll and reinstate them.

Verifying and updating records of all teacher qualifications and the position held by a teacher in a specific school to ensure fair pay and administrative understanding of qualified teacher gaps in the future.

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Award information

Awarded date

2 November 2016

Contract start date

14 November 2016

Contract end date

31 May 2017

Total value of contract

£964,655

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS

Address

7 Riverside
London Bridge
LONDON
SE1 2RT
England
United Kingdom

Reference

None

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Contact name

Public Enquiry Point

Address

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

Telephone

+44 (0) 1355 843132

Email

enquiry@dfid.gov.uk

Website

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