Published date: 19 December 2018

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


Closing: 31 March 2018

Contract summary

Industry

  • Research and development consultancy services - 73200000

Location of contract

London

Value of contract

£1,948,600

Procurement reference

PPRO 04/101/096

Published date

19 December 2018

Closing date

31 March 2018

Contract start date

1 April 2018

Contract end date

31 October 2019

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?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

Due to timing constraints within the Franchise Competition project timetable (publication of the ITT is scheduled for mid-day May 2018) the project is in urgent need for the award of a new technical advisory contract through a Direct Award; the current Technical Advisor contract value limit will be met at the end of March 2018. There is a significant dependency on the work currently being undertaken (supporting the development of the OBC and ITT) and to be undertaken (substantial work during the Evaluation Period and identification/resourcing of Evaluators; August 2018 - April 2019) by the Technical Advisors for successful delivery of the competition.

The Evaluation Period will require a significant number of Evaluators to be resourced; internally there is a very limited pool of evaluators due to resourcing issues with the Department and parallel evaluation times with other Franchise Competitions. The Technical Advisors will be tasked with sourcing up to 75% of the Evaluation resource required for the Evaluation phase (this will be from both internal to the Technical Advisors and SME resources).

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Award information

Awarded date

31 March 2018

Contract start date

1 April 2018

Contract end date

31 October 2019

Total value of contract

£1,948,600

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Atkins Limited

Address

Woodcote Grove
Ashely Road
Epsom
Surrey
KT18 5BW

Reference

None

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Address

Great Minster House,76 Marsham Street
LONDON
SW1P4DR
England

Email

DFTprocurement@dft.gso.gov.uk