Published date: 27 August 2019

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


Closing: 21 August 2019

Contract summary

Industry

  • Research and development services and related consultancy services - 73000000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£89,990

Procurement reference

tender_141474/794287

Published date

27 August 2019

Closing date

21 August 2019

Contract start date

23 August 2019

Contract end date

31 March 2020

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

Highways England requires further technical consultancy to conclude the programme of Strategic Alignment Assessment Review Toolkit (StART3). This work package is to undertake an EDI only round of assessments. This is to ensure that Highways England has complied with the Governments Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED) of increasing EDI by 15% by March 2020.

The completion of the current StART process along with further StART assessments will ensure Highways England has a supply chain aligned to the organisation, particularly considering the change to Highways England and the challenge of successfully delivering the RIS. StART will also contribute to:
 improved supplier alignment with Highways England's Supply Chain Strategy
 enable benchmark of performance
 a source of intelligence around key strategic areas such as capacity and capability, sustainability and efficiency and innovation and inclusion which inputs into our supplier relationship programme and other HE initiatives.
 Sharing of best practice within the supply chain community and the sector.
 support supplier development
 support our Supplier Equality Duty Target (increase of 15% by 2020)


3.2 Key objectives
Highways England requires specialist Technical Consultant Support to:
 Support supplier briefings on the StART process
 Provide skilled/appropriately experienced assessors
 Conduct EDI assessments to ensure the PSED requirement has been met
 Provide post assessment feedback and reporting including strengths in each area and areas for improvement.
 Provide a summary report at the end of each full assessment round to give a summary of the scores, key strengths and improvement ideas in each area.

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Award information

Awarded date

23 August 2019

Contract start date

23 August 2019

Contract end date

31 March 2020

Total value of contract

£89,990.71

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Rowsell Wright

Address

Harrogate

Reference

None

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Address

The Cube
Birmingham
B1 1RN
England

Email

spats_framework_lots_2to6@highwaysengland.co.uk