Provision of External Support to Project Data Analytics

Official notice

Authority: Ministry of Defence (Central government)

ServicesAward procedure without prior publication of a call for competition

Sectors: IT Services & Software (72) Delivery: UK

Awarded value£200,000published contract · exc. VAT

Awarded 5 May 2022no call for competition

Awarded to Foresight Works Ltd.

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Advise and peer review the Department’s optimism bias policy. Advise and peer review the Department’s approach to cost growth and cost escalation.
Introduction of a reference class forecast for Defence projects, to prevent approval of overly optimistic projects.
Conduct Reference Class Forecasting (RCF) on a minimum of 100 projects/programmes to provide benchmarking and forecasting on live and future MOD projects, enriched with RCF data from projects from around the world (e.g., US DOD).
Develop detailed RCF from comparing individual project work breakdown structures.
Identify solutions to blocks in the Department’s current data landscape that prevent end-to-end oversight of projects from Head Office to suppliers.
Run two experiments on selected and agreed MOD programmes to better understand cost and schedule gaps by mapping granular project-level data from the various fragmented systems for domains such as cost and time etc and applying pre-built unique Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning (AI/Ml) algorithms.
Propose solutions that can help the Department move from descriptive analytics to predictive analytics with portfolio data.

The above will provide the MOD with better Project Delivery Data Analytics such as:

a. Enhanced LFE to support forecasting at project initiation and through life.

b. Reduced cost of projects – delivering more for less.

c. Reduced duplication of work across common projects.

d. Improved delivery performance and confidence.

e. Continuous improvement.

f. Improved pan-MOD and MOD-Industry collaboration.

g. Increased transparency.

CPV: Data analysis services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published

Lot #1

Delivery: UK

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: 5 May 2022, 14:36 BST
Last source update: 5 May 2022, 14:36 BST
Authority reference: 703832450
FTS notice number: 2022/S 000-011714
Classification (CPV): Data analysis services
Delivery area: UK
Official registry OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-03345f Find a Tender

Why no open competition: The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive
Published justification: Under PCR Regulation 32 b) ii:-
Foresight Works has pre-built unique Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning (AI/Ml) algorithms that address MOD project delivery system objectives such as early warnings or predicting & preventing risk drivers. Foresight Works also have a unique database for reference class forecasting to compare MOD projects against various global benchmarks.
Foresight Works tooling is capable of connecting to MOD datasets, but also its multiple dataset providers (SharePoint, MS Power BI, Office365, MS Project, Oracle Primavera, Oracle E-Business).

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast

Awards 1

Awarded value £200,0001 contract exc. VAT

Contracts signed 1latest 5 May 2022

Awarded to	Value	Date	Status
Foresight Works Ltd.SMESubcontracting: declared	£200,000 †	—	Awarded

Contracts

Provision of External Support to Project Data Analytics · Foresight Works Ltd.SME
Signed
5 May 2022
Value
£200,000
Status
active

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Ministry of Defence

Contracting authorityCentral GovernmentMinistry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisionsDefence Kentigern House, 65 Brown Street, Glasgow, UK, G2 8EXContact name, email

Bidders & participating suppliers

1 commercial party on the notice

Foresight Works LtdAwarded supplier11330700 64 New Cavendish Street, London, UK, W1G 8TBContact email

Official documents & specifications

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