Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2016-02-09
Buyer: Procurement and Commercial Department
Country: UK
Region: South Lanarkshire
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 48812000: Financial information systems | 48814000: Medical information systems | 65100000 | 65110000 | 65111000
Estimated value: 240000000 GBP

Technical requirements: This is a Prior Information Notice (PIN) only: publication and call for competition will be conducted once scope of works is fully defined and approved. DFID is holding an early market event with partners to discuss future programme requirements in Sierra Leone. Subject to Business case approval, DFID intends to publish a number of new competition opportunities in the coming weeks/months. DFID will be holding an Early market Engagement Event about the planned programmes and the services required from interested parties.
The UK Government has pledged a total of 240 000 000 GBP over the next 2 years (2016/17 and 2017/18) to Sierra Leone. Of the 240 000 000 GBP, a total of 110 000 000 GBP was pledged for Sierra Leone's first priority, increasing economic development and jobs, in particular through improving transport infrastructure and through improving access to energy and water. The balance (130 000 000 GBP) was pledged to making adequate basic services available to all, particularly health and education; and to enable Sierra Leone to respond better to new crises; to support the Government's capacity to raise tax revenue; to tackle corruption; and more broadly to improve the capacities of public institutions. Subject to Business Case approvals, DFID intends to publish a number of new competition opportunities in the coming weeks/months. DFID will be hosting an Early Market Engagement Event about the planned programmes and the services required from interested parties. The main objective is to provide partners with an update on the current Sierra Leone context, information on the proposed new programmes and opportunities for partners. We would also like to seek market feedback on the feasibility of the proposed delivery options and to discuss challenges and opportunities. The event is expected to take place on Friday 19.2.2016, will be in the form of a three hour session in DFID, 22 Whitehall, London. Further details concerning the event will be noted on the DFID Portal in due course. DFID will present the event programme, its proposed outputs and delivery channels, answering questions and well as discussions with partners. Parties interested in attending the presentation or requiring any other information must register interest in this event via the DFID Supplier Portal. This will be the main communication channel moving forward (https://supplierportal.dfid.gov.uk/selfservice/). Parties are therefore encouraged to keep up to date with the Portal over the coming weeks/days as further information will be added in due course. We are happy to receive questions in advance of this event via the DFID portal, which DFID will respond to at the event. The discussion's headlines will also be published after the event on the Supplier Portal. We will not disclose the source of the questions and answers. Due to space restrictions we request only one attendee per interested party. Attendance should be confirmed via the ‘Dialogue/Clarification’ function on the DFID portal. Please note that this is a Prior Information Notice to advertise a Supplier Day. No tender document will be available at this stage.