Published date: 29 July 2021

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


Closing: 4 June 2021, 11:59pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Services furnished by business, professional and specialist organisations - 98110000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£76,740

Procurement reference

tender_224047/984123

Published date

29 July 2021

Closing date

4 June 2021

Closing time

11:59pm

Contract start date

5 July 2021

Contract end date

19 December 2021

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?

Yes

Description

Finance and Business Manager
About The Role
- Managing project finances and providing input to business cases
- Supporting delivery managers, leading on costing initiatives and new activities, validating supplier costings using cross government benchmarking
- Negotiating and managing cross-government Memorandum of Understanding; agreeing Defra costs for shared sites and services
- Monitoring, forecasting and reporting on spend against budget
- Writing business cases and reports to committees and to HMT as needed
- Managing team resourcing, ensuring vacancies are identified, defined and filled at key points
- Managing relationships with contractor agencies and the resourcing team
- Supporting interview process and inductions
- Leading on staff engagement and corporate engagement initiatives
- Represent the team on corporate and programme wider activities and forums, feeding back and building a collaborative approach within the team
- Support the relationship with internal and external project stakeholders. Identify and manage collaborative relationships. Actively engage senior level support when required.
- Lead on delivery assurance and lessons learnt
- Lead on co-ordination of reviews, audits and inspections
- Communicate project vision and status effectively, using established meetings such as the project and programme boards. Ensure visibility of project status to appropriate stakeholders.
- Ensure that on-going service management is in place post go-live of the project.

More information

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Award information

Awarded date

5 July 2021

Contract start date

5 July 2021

Contract end date

19 December 2021

Total value of contract

£76,740

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Venn Group

Address

Cottons Centre, Hays Lane, London, SE1 2QP

Reference

No reference - other

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Address

Nobel House
London
SP1J 3JR
England

Email

network.procurement@defra.gov.uk