Published date: 27 July 2022

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


Closing: 28 June 2022, 7pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Research and development services and related consultancy services - 73000000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£1,038,513.96

Procurement reference

tender_245246/1092217

Published date

27 July 2022

Closing date

28 June 2022

Closing time

7pm

Contract start date

27 July 2022

Contract end date

27 July 2024

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 Department for Transport ('The Department') requires specialist Commercial and Technical Support (CTS) to provide independent advice, constructive challenge and to assist the Department in acting as an increasingly effective client and sponsor.
The key objectives for this work are to enhance the DfT RIS-Client team's:
- capability to review business case and programme information from National Highways, so that we are better equipped to ask the right questions, correctly interpret the responses, and so secure wider Government support for the project and programmes. This includes understanding of cost estimates/forecasts, delivery schedules and baselines.
- access to specialist technical knowledge and expertise that does not reside within the core team or the wider department, focussed on high risk and complex cases, e.g. advice on cost estimation on specific schemes and on technical design and buildability issues, such as tunnelling.
- confidence in project delivery and outcomes. For example, allowing us to assure others in Government that the broad scale of infrastructure proposed in major schemes is appropriated to deliver desired outcomes and that all key factors that could reduce costs or enhance the value for money of schemes have been considered;
- practices, principles and templates for oversight of the Roads Investment Strategy (RIS) portfolio and Tier 1 schemes, covering areas such as governance, planning, risk management and change management. This will include implementing lessons learned since the start of RIS1 and recommendations from 'Lessons from Transport for the Sponsorship of Major Projects' to ensure consistency of approach and implementation of best practice;
- skills, learning and knowledge to undertake its role. We are looking to the CTS to explain and evidence the reasons for their advice, to support capability building and knowledge sharing, and to assist the team in understanding where similar issues and principles could be applicable in other contexts/ schemes.

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Award information

Awarded date

27 July 2022

Contract start date

27 July 2022

Contract end date

27 July 2024

Total value of contract

£1,038,513.96

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

WSP

Address

Basingstoke

Reference

No reference - other

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Address

The Cube
Birmingham
B1 1RN
England

Email

SPaTS2@nationalhighways.co.uk