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Dialogue Driven Partnerships
Development consultancy services
NP
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Submission deadline Not published
Lots published1
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Tenderline Synopsis: Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office: "Dialogue Driven Partnerships". Published status: complete. Published value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.
| Contracting Authority | Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office | Scope & Categories | Not published | Submission Window | complete No deadline published |
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| Submission Gateway | Direct notice route | Legal Basis & Regime | Standard procurement | Estimated Value (exc. VAT) | Not published |
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Coverage: 1 active published awards; 0 bid reports (which may be per lot). Supplier values exclude multi-supplier awards, frameworks and DPS, and use GBP only. They are published award values, not payments. Price reduction compares single-lot, single-award, single-supplier GBP procedures with explicitly non-framework/non-DPS status; increases remain in the average. Unpublished data stays unknown. Awarded suppliers are winners, not all bidders.
Procedure terms
Contracting AuthorityForeign Commonwealth and Development Office | Procedure methodNot published | Procurement categoryNot published |
Statuscomplete | Framework / DPSNot published | CompetitionNot published |
Above thresholdNot published | Legal basisNot published | Tender period startsNot published |
Clarification deadlineNot published | Electronic submissionNot published | Submission languagesNot published |
Published2 Aug 2024, 11:41 BST | Last source update2 Aug 2024, 11:41 BST | Recurring procurementNot published |
ClassificationDevelopment consultancy services | ||
Delivery area NP | ||
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-048713 | ||
What is being bought
A contract for the management of two sets of dialogues for British Embassy Kathmandu (BEK):
1) 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).
2) 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).
What changed
From the official release history
- Status changed to complete
2 Aug 2024, 11:41 BST - Official notice release published
2 Aug 2024, 11:41 BST - Buyer information updated
2 Aug 2024, 11:41 BST
Lots and requirements (1)
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- Lot 1 · #1Individual lot title not publishedStatus not publishedPublished valueNot publishedBuilding 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).Contract periodNot publishedEligibilityNot publishedOptions / renewalNot published
Timeline
- Procedure published
2 Aug 2024, 11:41 BST - Award active
Not published · Not published - Contract active
Signed 2 Aug 2024, 00:00 BST · £223,665
Commercial outcome and competition
Awards Agulhas Applied Knowledge Limited Not published · Not published · active |
Contracts Dialogue Driven Partnerships £223,665 · signed 2 Aug 2024, 00:00 BST · active |
Bid statisticsNo aggregate bid statistics published |
Buyer and organisations in this procedure
Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office
Contracting authority GB-FTS-120330Documents (0)
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Planning and rationale
Planning budgetNot published |
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Procedure rationaleSingle 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. |