Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2019-12-09
Buyer: The Minister for the Cabinet Office acting through Crown Commercial Service
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 71248000 | 72224000: Project management consultancy services | 72591000 | 75100000 | 75112000
Estimated value: 25000000 GBP

Technical requirements: Crown Commercial Service (CCS) as the authority intends to put in place a Pan Government Collaborative Agreement for the provision of grant administration services to be utilised by Central Government Departments and all other UK Public Sector Bodies, including local authorities, health, police, fire and rescue, education and devolved administrations.
Grant administration services will offer a wide range of services that fall under various aspects of grant administration and services to grant making bodies and organisations throughout the public sector via a Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS). These services will cover general administration, evaluation, policy development, marketing, due diligence and end to end programme management amongst others. We will work closely with customers to understand their niche requirements and ensure these are covered in the way the DPS presents the most appropriate suppliers.
Crown Commercial Service invites suggestions and feedback on the proposed content and structure of our grant administration services from the market including industry experts, specialists and suppliers.
This prior information notice is to signal an intention to commence market engagement with those within the market.
To participate in market engagement please email: grantprocurement@crowncommercial.gov.uk with any suggestions and/or feedback in your email, along with the following details:
Please refer to the CCS pipeline page http://ccs-agreements.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/procurement-pipeline for updates and monitor tenders electronic daily for the publication of the OJEU contract notice.
The Cyber Essentials scheme is mandatory for Central Government Contracts which involve handling personal information and providing certain ICT products and services. The Government is taking steps to further reduce the levels of cyber security risk in its supply chain through the Cyber Essentials scheme. The scheme defines a set of controls which, when properly implemented, will provide organisations with basic protection from the most prevalent forms of threat coming from the internet.
To participate in the procurement, bidders will be required to demonstrate that they comply with the technical requirements prescribed by Cyber Essentials for the services under and in connection with the procurement.
The bidder may be awarded a framework contract but shall not enter into any call-off contracts with buyers until they are able to demonstrate to CCS that they meet the technical requirements prescribed by the Cyber Essentials Scheme for services under and in connection with this procurement.
The service that arise from this framework will involve the supplier holding material that has been assigned a protective marking under the Government Security Classifications Scheme (April 2014) of Official. It will be a condition of this contract that this material must be protected. Baseline protection controls are defined in ISO 27001:2013 and further defined by the security policy framework https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-security


Award value: 25000000