Published date: 4 March 2021

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


Closing: 12 January 2021, 4pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Business development consultancy services - 79411100

Location of contract

West Midlands, London

Value of contract

£0

Procurement reference

PROC.01.0677

Published date

4 March 2021

Closing date

12 January 2021

Closing time

4pm

Contract start date

25 January 2021

Contract end date

31 December 2023

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (below threshold)

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

This procedure can be used for procurements below the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes


Description

Business Call-Off Lot 1 Process Improvement Lead

Ofwat has a range of Business Improvement Experts to identify and document business requirements through data collation and analysis, suggesting and supporting improvement activities from project initiation through to sustainable results.

Ofwat has created a framework that will have a maximum duration of three years. Lot 1 Process Improvement Leads to support a variety of discrete Business Improvement projects across the organisation.

The successful Business Improvement Expert has been added onto a procurement framework which will utilise two routes to market, either by Mini-Competition or Direct Award, for each discrete Business Improvement project.

Lot 1: Mandatory skillset required for Process Improvement Lead:
- Must be able to identify and improve business process, from data collation and analysis through to suggestions and implementations.
- Stakeholder Engagement skillset required to conduct interviews, and engage with enthusiasm to bring people with you on the change process.
 Able to utilise a range of data gathering techniques to discover volumes of work, query types, turnaround times and similar. Analyse and deliver data trends to consider resourcing and possible SLAs and suggest success measures.
 Ability to map out processes to identify current and future state processes maps, tracking the value stream and work towards a single point of contact for processes.
 Facilitation expertise required to run problem solving exploration sessions and workshops, such as Design Thinking techniques or similar.
 Able to gain agreement and ownership on how each process needs to work by understanding the requirements and the most effective way to operate, enabling supporting functions to understand end-to-end processes and support sustainable solutions.
 Change Management understanding to help people through the process improvement change implications, considering communication milestones with stakeholders in project planning.


More information

Additional text

For further information, please contact procurement@ofwat.gov.uk


Award information

Awarded date

21 January 2021

Contract start date

25 January 2021

Contract end date

31 December 2023

Total value of contract

£0

This contract was awarded to 6 suppliers.

Equiniti Ltd

Address

Aspect House
Spencer Road
Lancing
West Sussex
BN99 6DA

Reference

Companies House number: 06226088

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

Nine Feet Tall

Address

Northgate House
Upper Borough Walls
Bath
BA1 1RG

Reference

Companies House number: 04990527

Supplier is SME?

Yes

Supplier is VCSE?

No

Featur Labs Ltd

Address

65 London Wall
London
EC2M 5TU

Reference

Companies House number: 11820000

Supplier is SME?

Yes

Supplier is VCSE?

No

Williad Consulting Ltd

Address

5 Lea Lane
Madeley
Crewe
CW3 9DR

Reference

Companies House number: 09026123

Supplier is SME?

Yes

Supplier is VCSE?

No

Red Quadrant Ltd

Address

20 Evesham Way
London
SW11 5QX

Reference

Companies House number: 06944005

Supplier is SME?

Yes

Supplier is VCSE?

No

Reinvigoration Ltd

Address

Brunel House (15th Floor)
2 Fitzalan Road
Cardiff
CF24 0EB

Reference

Companies House number: 06773960

Supplier is SME?

Yes

Supplier is VCSE?

No


About the buyer

Address

Birmingham
Birmingham
B54UA
England

Email

mailbox@ofwat.gov.uk