Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2018-04-11
Buyer: The Minister for the Cabinet Office acting through Crown Commercial Service
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 66121000 | 66170000 | 71241000 | 72100000 | 72200000
Estimated value: 2300000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2018-05-18
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Crown Commercial Service (CCS) wishes to establish a pan government Framework Agreement for use by UK public sector bodies which include Central Government Departments and their Arm Length Bodies and Agencies, the wider public sector and third sector including, including but not limited to, local government, health, education, police, fire and rescue, housing associations and charities. This agreement will complement the Management Consultancy Framework Agreement (RM3745), which is managed by CCS. Scope of assignments may be national or international.
The Supplier shall deliver assignments which may result in: Single, multiple assignments or a single project addressing a broad range of business consulting services for both advice and delivery. Reactive assignments, where the requirements and outcomes are known by the Customer.
CCS reserves the right to extend the Framework Agreement by 2 periods of up to 12 months each after the initial 24 month period.
With reference to IV.I.3, a bidder will be awarded a place on lot 1 if they achieve or exceed the minimum final score of 55. We cannot guarantee any business through the Framework Agreement.
The Supplier shall deliver assignments which may result in: Assignments providing procurement, supply chain and commercial consultancy expertise to Customers. These may include advice and delivery of: Complex commercial procurement transactions, strategic, operational and dedicated large scale deployments. Procurement processes which may include but not limited to: requests for information, pre-qualification questionnaires, invitation to tender, specification and drafting. Transactional functional services which may include but not limited to: purchase to pay, purchase orders, contract management, automation, digitalisation or administering work, structuring of commercial models, which may include but not limited to: private finance initiative/public finance initiative/joint ventures/public private partnership and social economic partnerships. Category management including make or buy decisions.
CCS reserves the right to extend the Framework Agreement by 2 periods of up to 12 months each after the initial 24 month period.
With reference to IV.I.3, a bidder will be awarded a place on Lot 2 if they achieve or exceed the minimum final score of 55.
The Supplier shall deliver assignments which may result in: Advice and/or delivery of multi discipline multiple work streams/programmes or portfolios of work. Programmes or portfolios of work across government which are complex, multi-disciplinary, transformational and large scale Lead/support for Customers in the design, construction and implementation of dynamic, multiple work stream and interdependent projects.
CCS reserves the right to extend the Framework Agreement by 2 periods of up to 12 months each after the initial 24 month period.
We cannot guarantee any business through the Framework Agreement with reference to IV.I.3, CCS will award a Framework Agreement to the top ranked 30 bidders.
CCS will also award a Framework Agreement to additional bidders where their final score is within 5% of the original awarded last place position only (30
Services are likely to be assignments providing high level strategic advice to permanent secretaries, ministers and other senior civil/public servants, they may result in: Proposals to Customers which are based on insights, intelligence and expertise, academic research, papers written and published. Advice to support government direction or policies, as above based on knowledge and consultancy capabilities introduction of best practice and market leading advice to government. Diagnostic and analytical support for public sector leadership/management. Assignments to develop and or enhance business strategy in support of delivery of business goals.
CCS reserves the right to extend the Framework Agreement by 2 periods of up to 12 months each after the initial 24 month period.
We cannot guarantee any business through the Framework Agreement with reference to IV.I.3, CCS will award a Framework Agreement to the top ranked 30 bidders. CCS will also award a Framework Agreement to additional bidders where their final score is within 5% of the original awarded last place position only (30
Bidders will be assessed in accordance with Section 5 of the 2015 Public Contract Regulations (implementing the Directive) on the basis of information provided in response to an Invitation to Tender (“ITT”).

Eligibility requirements: Bidders will be assessed in accordance with Section 5 of the 2015 Public Contract Regulations (implementing the Directive) on the basis of information provided in response to an Invitation to Tender (“ITT”). Registering for access. This procurement will be managed electronically via the BravoSolution eSourcing tool. This will be the primary route for sharing all information and communicating with bidders. If you have recently registered on the BravoSolution portal for another CCS procurement you can use the same account for this competition. If not, you will first need to register your organisation on the portal. To register, you will need to: 1. Go to the URL: https://crowncommercialservice.bravosolution.co.uk 2. Select “Click here to register!”; 3. Read and agree to the portal user agreement; 4. Complete the registration form, providing information including: — The full legal name of your organisation, — Your company registration number, — Your DUNS number-a unique 9-digit number provided to organisations free of charge by Dun and Bradstreet, — User and contact details. Once you have registered on the eSourcing tool, you will be able to express your interest in this specific procurement. Your registered user will receive a notification email to alert them once this has been done. Note: If you require additional users from your organisation to see the Invitation to Tender (ITT), do not repeat the above as this will create a new separate account; instead the registered user can add additional users to the existing account via “Profile” “User Management” “Users”. You need to express an interest in rfq_8 Management Consultancy Framework 2 (MCF2). To express an interest you will need to: 1. Login to the BravoSolution eSourcing tool https://crowncommercialservice.bravosolution.co.uk 2. On the dashboard there is a “quick links” portlet – click on “My ITTs”; 3. On the next screen click on “ITTs open to all suppliers”; 4. Click on the rfq_8 Management Consultancy Framework 2 (MCF2). Note: There may also be other events listed on here; 5. Click on “Express Interest” at the top of the next screen; 6. You can now access the published documents in the eSourcing suite. For assistance please contact the eSourcing Help-desk operated by BravoSolution by email at help@bravosolution.co.uk or call +44 0800 069 8630 Cyber Essentials is mandatory for Central Government Contracts which involves handling personal information and providing certain ICT products and services. To participate in this procurement, bidders must be able to demonstrate that they comply with the technical requirements prescribed by Cyber Essentials for services under and in connection with this procurement. The award of a place on this Framework Agreement is conditional on a bidders ability to demonstrate to the Authority that they meet the technical requirements prescribed by Cyber Essentials for services under and in conjunction with this procurement. Please note that Cyber Essentials Basic Certificate or equivalent is required for all lots.

Award value: 2300000000