Published date: 22 August 2017

Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.


Closing: 14 September 2017

Contract summary

Industry

  • Research and development consultancy services - 73200000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£0 to £2,000,000

Procurement reference

MM000224

Published date

22 August 2017

Closing date

14 September 2017

Contract start date

1 December 2017

Contract end date

30 November 2021

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Restricted procedure

A two-stage procedure, where the first stage is used to select suppliers, who are then invited to bid in the second stage.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No


Description

Projects under the framework are expected to fall under the following areas:
- Providing specialist support in formulating, developing and underpinning NDA's strategy across all strategythemes - Independent peer-review of technical documents, plans, programmes of work and projects underother frameworks, e.g. DRP - Assist NDA with technology management and associated plans and procedures.
- Assist NDA in coordinating and managing technical and strategic meetings, workshops and forums -Assist NDA to develop scopes of work, e.g. Invitation to Tender (ITT) documents for competition under otherframeworks (mostly DRP) - Support to technical assessment of tender responses to ITTs and deliverables.
- Desk based strategic assessments where they do not belong under the scope of DRP framework -Experimental work is not in the scope of this framework.
Contract value estimated to be 2 000 000 GBP over 4 years (24+12+12 months).


About the buyer

Address

Herdus House
Westlakes Science & Technology Park
Moor Row
CA24 3HU
England

Email

procurement.tenders@nda.gov.uk