Official UK procurement notice
Dialogue Driven Partnerships · UK public procurement notice
Authority: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionA contract for the management of two sets of dialogues for British Embassy Kathmandu (BEK):
- The “Horizons” series: The supplier will facilitate a series of seminars. This work will act as a ‘soft power’ lever, demonstrating the UK as a thought leader by convening relevant stakeholders from Nepal and the international community to deliver cutting edge analysis of topics critical to Nepal’s future. Five thematic ‘dialogue’ events will be hosted every two months by British Embassy Kathmandu, culminating in a two-day workshop).
- Partner Dialogues: The supplier will facilitate roundtable discussions with Nepal development programme partners to deliver portfolio coherence and collaborative learning and adaptation across portfolio themes at BEK. The Partners Dialogues will be central to ‘onboarding’ implementing partners and delivering stronger portfolio impacts and greater VFM (identifying what’s not working and ensuring the dialogues help solve problems, build consensus on ways of working, and support evidence-based decision making on portfolio priorities).
CPV: Development consultancy services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Building on BEK’s influencing approach, the Horizons dialogues will be used as a…
Building on BEK’s influencing approach, the Horizons dialogues will be used as a direct and practical influencing ‘lever’ whereby the UK convenes stakeholders to shape and inform debate and develops strategic action in Kathmandu and the provinces.
This will foster coherence and collaboration across Development Partners, moving away from a projectivized way of delivering programmes towards more strategic, impact-focused development outcomes across relevant actors, bringing in Government of Nepal representation where suitable.
This work will act as a ‘soft power’ lever, demonstrating the UK as a thought leader by convening relevant stakeholders from Nepal and the international community to deliver cutting edge analysis of topics critical to Nepal’s future (in the next 5-10 years).
This work will seek to bring in local and often marginalised voices, alongside other relevant stakeholders. One dialogue should be expected to be held in one of BEK’s priority provinces (Karnali, Madhesh, Lumbini).
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Awarded without competition
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Direct award (no call for competition)
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 2 Aug 2024, 11:41 BST
- Last source update
- 2 Aug 2024, 11:41 BST
- FTS notice number
2024/S 000-024269- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-048713Find a Tender
- Why no open competition
- The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive
- Published justification
Single source Direct Award in order to maintain continuity for a project that is strategically and reputationally important to British Embassy Kathmandu (BEK). The first Horizons seminar is scheduled for September but this will not be possible if there is a sustained delay in the preparatory work being carried out by the DDP project. A key objective of the Partner Dialogues is to induct new programme partners into a coherent portfolio way-of-working. There are a number of programmes that are mobilising right now and in the next two months so it is important that the DDP project continues to support this mobilisation.
The Single Source rationale is therefore that:
A satisfactory proposal, with satisfactory value for money, that avoids conflict of interest risk, has been cut short for reasons that have nothing to do with the viability of the contract or the performance of the delivery team. There is an opportunity to continue with the same proposal, the same delivery team, and the same prices by Direct Award.
This would achieve near seamless operational continuity, allowing BEK to deliver the objectives of the Dialogue Driven Partnerships (DDP) project, which are very important to BEK’s ‘soft power’ strategy and their vision for managing their development programmes in a more coherent and effective ‘portfolio’ manner.
The new contract will replicate an original contract that was procured in a robust way using the EACDS2 framework. The framework price caps provided assurance on VFM and the technical proposal was evaluated as the best of two proposals that were submitted.
Single Source is permitted under regulation 32 (2)(c), "insofar as is strictly necessary where, for reasons of extreme urgency brought about by events unforeseeable by the contracting authority, the time limits for the open or restricted procedures or competitive procedures with negotiation cannot be complied with." In this case, the unforeseeable event was the liquidation of the original Supplier, which happened very suddenly and did not allow time for an open or restricted procurement to be carried out.
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agulhas Applied KnowledgeSMESubcontracting: declared | £223,665 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Dialogue Driven Partnerships · Agulhas Applied KnowledgeSME
- Signed
- 2 Aug 2024
- Value
- £223,665
- Status
- active
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- Agulhas Applied Knowledge LimitedAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.