Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-03-31
Buyer: Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA) and Crown Commercial Services (CCS) acting as it’s agent
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72000000 | 72220000: Systems and technical consultancy services | 75000000 | 75121000 | 80000000
Estimated value: 22500000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2020-04-28
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: IPA is formally undertaking the re-procurement of the Project Leadership Programme, a development programme run for project leaders in government.
Government projects are complex and delivered under intense political and public scrutiny, often in volatile and uncertain contexts. They can be of significant scale and uniqueness. Of critical importance to the IPA is to build project delivery capability through enhancing project leadership.
The IPA has established two key project leadership development programmes, one of which is the Project Leadership Programme (PLP).
The programme has enrolled since inception over 1 000 leaders from across 30 different government departments and currently delivers up to 6 cohorts a year of between 30-50 participants per cohort.
The current PLP is based on three key leadership competencies: leadership of self, commercial leadership and technical project leadership. Its content combines expert academic theory with practical hands-on learning. Its format currently includes four residential modules, elective classes, coaching and online tools such as bespoke 360º feedback and a participant information portal.
Candidates 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 the bid pack.
Although this procurement falls under Schedule 3 (Social and Other Specific Services) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015, meaning we are running this competition using the light-touch procedure, it is being conducted in the style of the open procedure. Anyone can submit a bid in response to this published contract notice.
The duration of the contract will be a maximum of 5 (five) years, with the first term being 3 (three) years, with a further possible extension of 2 (two) 1 (one)-year periods.
All schedules and specific documentation related to this procurement will be included within the bid pack at: https://crowncommercialservice.bravosolution.co.uk where access is unrestricted and free of charge.
As part of this contract notice the following documents can be accessed at: https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/eb71b4a4-a522-4710-8c5f-8c25382e2dfc
On 2 April 2014 Government introduced its Government Security Classifications (GSC) scheme which replaced Government Protective Marking Scheme (GPMS). A key aspect is the reduction in the number of security classifications used. All bidders should make themselves aware of the changes as it may impact on this requirement. The link below to Gov.uk provides information on the GSC at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/government-security-classifications
This procurement will be managed electronically via the BravoSolution eSourcing tool. This will be the route for sharing all information and communicating with potential providers. If you have recently registered on the BravoSolution portal for another CCS procurement you can use the same account for this new procurement. If not, you will first need to register your organisation on the portal.
— your DUNS number — a unique nine-digit number provided to organisations free of charge by Dun and Bradstreet,
Once you have registered on the BravoSolution 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 process as this will create a new separate organisation account; instead the registered user can add additional users to the existing supplier organisation account via ‘User Management’ > ‘Manage Users’ > ‘Users’ > ‘Create’.

Eligibility requirements: Candidates 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 the bid pack.

Award value: 22500000