Published date: 11 November 2022

This notice was replaced on 20 December 2022

This notice does not contain the most up-to-date information about this procurement. The most recent notice is:

Opportunity (published 20 December 2022)

Closed early engagement


Contract summary

Industry

  • Research and development consultancy services - 73200000

Location of contract

SW1H 0ET

Procurement reference

tender_337038/1145066

Published date

11 November 2022

Closing date

30 November 2022

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No


Description

** Please note this is not a call for competition. This is a PIN notice for a Government Office for Science (GO-Science) requirement**

BEIS and the Government Office for Science are planning to renew the Futures Procurement Framework. This is a register of consultants and researchers that can be called upon by HM Government Departments, Agencies and UK public bodies to support longer-term strategic work (Futures and foresight) and further developing these capabilities in government. To provide more detail on the proposed framework, its aims and objectives and required expertise, GO-Science will host a market engagement session for prospective suppliers on Thursday, 1st December 2022. There will be a Q&A opportunity, and (a maximum of 2) key consultants or project/commercial leads from prospective supplier organisations are encouraged to attend.

We would like to invite prospective bidders to attend a pre-market engagement session on Thursday, 1st December 2022 14:00 - 15:30 via MS Teams.

The agenda for the day is as follows:
- Introductions, - Overview of the requirement, - Framework expectations,- Procurement overview, - Discussion / Q&A

Note that the route to market will be via Find a Tender and Contracts Finder.


More information

Additional text

A pre-market engagement session will be held on Thursday, 1st December 2022 14:00 - 15:30 via MS Teams. This will provide an opportunity for potential providers to find out more about the aims of the procurement and the process. Providers wishing to attend need to RSVP by Wednesday, 30th November 2022 at 14.00 stating their name, company and email.

This information should be sent to the following email address: professionalservices@uksbs.co.uk for the attention of Victoria Clewer.

Please ensure that the subject heading for the email is as follows:
PS22410 Futures Framework Engagement Event.


About the buyer

Address

Polaris House, North Star Avenue
Swindon
SN2 1FF
England

Email

professionalservices@uksbs.co.uk