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Published 17 May 2022, 17:09 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Post Office Horizon Inquiry Expert Witness Services

Authority: Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (Central government)·Consortium: 2 public authorities

ServicesAward procedure without prior publication of a call for competition

Sectors: Architecture & Engineering (71) Delivery: UKLondon (UKI)

Awarded value£750,000published contract · exc. VAT

Awarded 30 May 2022no call for competition

Awarded to Alix Partners2 awards

What is being bought

Published requirement description

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.

CPV: Business and management consultancy and related services · Expert witness services · Miscellaneous business and business-related services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published

Lot #1Awarded

Delivery: UK, London

79400000 Business and management consultancy and related services 79900000 Miscellaneous business and business-related services

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: Yes (GPA)
Recurring procurement: Unspecified in notice
First published: 17 May 2022, 17:09 BST
Last source update: 14 Jun 2022, 11:30 BST
FTS notice number: 2022/S 000-016239
Classification (CPV): Business and management consultancy and related servicesExpert witness servicesMiscellaneous business and business-related services
Delivery area: UKLondon (UKI)
Official registry OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-033929 Find a Tender

Why no open competition

No tenders or no suitable tenders/requests to participate in response to open procedure

Published justification

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.
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.
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.

Notice history

1 event · 2 releases on Find a Tender

Buyer details updated
14 Jun 2022, 11:30 BST

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast

Awards 2

Awarded value £750,0001 contract exc. VAT · 1 repeated publication of the same award counted once

Bids received 1

Contracts signed 2latest 30 May 2022

Awarded to	Value	Date	Status
Alix Partners	£750,000 †same award published again · counted once	—	Awarded
Alix PartnersExpert Witness Services	£750,000 †	—	Awarded

Contracts

Expert Witness Services · Alix Partners
Signed
30 May 2022
Value
£750,000
Status
active
Contract 012939-2022-1 · Alix Partners
Signed
16 May 2022
Value
£750,000
Status
active

Bid statistics published by the authority

Bids	SME	VCSE	Valid bid range
1bids	—	—	—

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

2 public bodies on the notice

Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy

Contracting authorityCentral GovernmentMinistry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisionsGeneral public services London, LondonContact email

Consortium members and other public bodies

Business Energy and Industrial StrategyContracting authorityMinistry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisionsGeneral public services London, LondonContact email

Dispute resolution & review bodies

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyReview body London

Bidders & participating suppliers

2 commercial parties on the notice

Alix PartnersAwarded supplier London, UK, EC4A 3BF
Alix PartnersAwarded supplier London, London

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice.