Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2018-03-15
Buyer: Foreign & Commonwealth Office
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 71314000: Energy and related services | 71317210 | 73000000 | 75211200 | 79000000
Estimated value: 0.1 GBP
Award criteria: Lowest price

Technical requirements: Foreign and Commonwealth Office invited tenders from suitably experienced contractors to join the new 1 300 000 000 GBP, Cross-Whitehall Prosperity Fund framework. The Fund’s primary objective is to promote inclusive economic growth and poverty reduction, in accordance with Official Development Assistance rules and the International Development Act.
Strategic policy making and analysis on constraints to business, including assessment of regulatory, legal, institutional and other constraints, the gender dimensions of these, and design of initiatives to address these opening up public procurement and increasing transparency to prevent regulatory capture and corruption.
Strengthening and simplifying business regulations and practices, e.g. as they impact on business registration, capital requirements, construction permits and other licensing arrangements, registering property, paying taxes, trading across borders, enforcing contracts and addressing insolvency.
Strengthening policy, regulatory capacity and procedures at the subnational level tackling informality which limits firm size. human capital development, innovation and financial deepening.
Implementation of international standards and guidelines (i.e. UN Convention Against Corruption, IFC Performance Standards on Environmental and Social Sustainability 2012).
Strengthening business transparency, e.g. through development and delivery of policies on beneficial ownership.
Strengthening and deepening financial markets in specialist areas through policy advice, advocacy, consultation, product development and capacity building.
Training and capacity building in support of broadening and deepening of financial markets for economic development.
Strengthening policy, rules and procedures, and enforcement capability to protect intellectual property.
Wider trade facilitation, including strategic advice on customs and border efficiency and effectiveness.
Technical assistance to address capacity and capability gaps identified in developing countries which inhibit that countries ability to trade globally.
Supporting public authorities to develop and establish credible pipelines of infrastructure projects to support inclusive, affordable, safe and resilient infrastructure – e.g. options planning, stakeholder engagement feasibility studies, business case development and procurement processes, and identification of streams of finance.
Supporting countries to plan and develop projects which will attract commercial finance, including through Public-Private Partnership methodologies.
Direct technical support for carefully selected pilot projects (in conjunction with the private sector and multilaterals such as the World Bank).
Supporting infrastructure programming that is gender sensitive as a minimum and looks to harness opportunities to support women’s economic empowerment.


Winner: IMC Worldwide Ltd
Award value: 0.1
Number of bids: 29