II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
73110000
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UKM95
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
DFID will contract one supplier, or lead consortium member, who will be responsible for delivering the contract. The contract will consist of 2 phases:
— Phase 1 wil be a 6 month period,
— Phase 2 will be expected to begin immediately upon satisfactory completion of Phase 1 and will last for 54 months.
The supplier will be directly responsible for the delivery of the 3 main programme components:
1) What works to deliver essential services that respond and flex in response to natural disasters?
The supplier will be charged with designing a tailored and adaptive research programme that works closely with DFID country offices and DFID funded programming, to identify how shocks impact on essential services in developing countries; the extent to which essential services can flex and respond as a system rather than independent parts; and how best essential services can prepare and respond to shocks.
2) Integrating learning back into programmes and systems in DFID focal countries
This component will support country offices that participate in the research to access short term specialist technical expertise on a call down basis to help them to integrate research findings into ongoing programme design in order to strengthen the response to shocks. The supplier will be responsible for sourcing appropriate expertise on a call down basis to provide support to selected focal countries to take the evidence from the research and feed it back into programme development.
3) Promoting research uptake across DFID and the international community.
This component will be achieved through the development of a research uptake strategy, dissemination of robust research outputs, and lesson learning events which will share the emerging lessons with DFID offices, policy teams and other relevant stakeholders. A key element of this will be establishing partnerships early on with potential early up takers of the findings e.g. other actors (such as the World Bank, the EU and the UN), DFID implementing partners or key focus country government departments.
II.2.5) Award criteria
Quality criterion: Approach to engagaing with stakeholders
/ Weighting: 5 %
Quality criterion: Approach to conducting Reasearh into the responsiveness of essential services in the 6 focal countries
/ Weighting: 20 %
Quality criterion: Ability to mobilise appropriatelyqualified technical expertise on a call down basis
/ Weighting: 10 %
Quality criterion: Approach to research uptake
/ Weighting: 10 %
Quality criterion: Supplier expertise in geographic and thematic areas
/ Weighting: 10 %
Quality criterion: Quality of proposed Team leader
/ Weighting: 5 %
Cost criterion: Competitiveness of Fee rates proposed
/ Weighting: 15 %
Cost criterion: Competitiveness of expenses proposed
/ Weighting: 5 %
Cost criterion: Competitiveness of Proposed Management and support costs
/ Weighting: 10 %
Cost criterion: Competitiveness of expert fees for Call Down facility
/ Weighting: 10 %
II.2.11) Information about options
Options:
Yes
Description of options:
DFID may extend the duration of the Maintains programme up to an additional 24 months, with a corresponding increased total contract value of up to 22 000 000 GBP (including VAT and all applicable government taxes), at the discretion of DFID. The entire contract will be subject to break points throughout which are fully described within the ToR.
II.2.13) Information about European Union funds
The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds:
No
II.2.14) Additional information
The contract will be governed by English Law. Prices must be quoted in GBP Sterling. All payments for the contract will be made in GBP Sterling. DFID reserves the right to annul the process at any point and not award the contract.