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Post Office Horizon Inquiry Expert Witness Services

Expert witness services
London (UKI)
Published value
Not published
Submission deadline Not published
Lots published1
Procurement Executive Summary
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Tenderline Synopsis: Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy: "Post Office Horizon Inquiry Expert Witness Services". Published status: complete. Published value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Contracting AuthorityDepartment for Business, Energy & Industrial StrategyScope & CategoriesNot publishedSubmission Window
complete
No deadline published
Submission GatewayDirect notice routeLegal Basis & RegimeStandard procurementEstimated Value (exc. VAT)Not published
Bidder Intelligence · Authority Profile: Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
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Published history for Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy. These figures describe retained records, not a forecast of bids or a measure of buyer bias.
Published-to-award variance
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Competition Density
3Bids / Report
51.6% of reports have one bid
Supplier ConcentrationNo estimate
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Payment Terms
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Coverage: 32 active published awards; 31 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. Published-to-award variance 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 Unpublished data stays unknown.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 AuthorityDepartment for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
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
Published14 Jun 2022, 11:30 BST
Last source update14 Jun 2022, 11:30 BST
Recurring procurementNot published
ClassificationExpert witness services
Delivery area
London (UKI)
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-033929
What is being bought
Services to analyse c. 70,000 documents, identifying significant points relating to the Post Office Horizon Inquiry, and produce a written report which sets out the key points, and provide Expert Witness services during hearings in September.
What changed
From the official release history
  1. Official notice release published
    14 Jun 2022, 11:30 BST
  2. Buyer information updated
    14 Jun 2022, 11:30 BST
  3. Status changed to complete
    17 May 2022, 17:09 BST
  4. Official notice release published
    17 May 2022, 17:09 BST
  5. Buyer information updated
    17 May 2022, 17:09 BST
Lots and requirements (1)
Published by the contracting authority
  • Lot 1 · #1
    Individual lot title not published
    cancelled
    Published valueNot published
    Services to analyse c. 70,000 documents, identifying significant points relating to the Post Office Horizon Inquiry, and produce a written report which sets out the key points, and provide Expert Witness services during hearings in September.
    Contract periodNot published
    EligibilityNot published
    Options / renewalNot published
Timeline
  1. Procedure published
    14 Jun 2022, 11:30 BST
  2. Award active
    Not published · Not published
  3. Contract active
    Signed 30 May 2022, 00:00 BST · £750,000
Commercial outcome and competition
Awards
Alix Partners
Not published · Not published · active
Contracts
Expert Witness Services
£750,000 · signed 30 May 2022, 00:00 BST · active
Bid statistics
bids: 1 (lot 1)
Buyer and organisations in this procedure

Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy

Contracting authority GB-FTS-48692
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  • Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
    buyer

    London, UKI
    cara.jenkins@beis.gov.uk

  • Alix Partners
    supplier

    London, UKI

  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
    reviewBody

    London
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Planning and rationale
Planning budgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Procedure rationale1. Unforeseeable requirement: there is a provision in place already to analyse the document pack provided by a different supplier. However, the volume of highly technical documents received was much higher than indicated by the supplier, and the existing provision does not have the required expertise to deliver the requirement. Therefore, this requirement was only identifiable at the receipt of the document pack in March. 2. Hard deadline: This report must be completed and delivered to the relevant parties at the Inquiry sufficiently ahead of the September hearings. This makes a full open competition unfeasible due to timescales required to complete the work. 3. Failed framework competition: we contacted suppliers on the Management and Consultancy Framework 3 to provide Expressions of Interest in delivering this requirement. Our correspondence highlighted the need for the technical expertise, the importance of not having Conflicts of Interest (due to the political and high-profile nature of the Inquiry), experience as an expert witness, & the associated timescales. We received 0 EOIs from the suppliers on the MCF3 framework, which has resulted in us moving to STA as our recommended route to market.