Contract award notice
Results of the procurement procedure
Section I: Contracting
entity
I.1) Name and addresses
British Council
Bridgewater House, 58 Whitworth Street
Manchester
M1 6BB
UK
E-mail: global.procurement@britishcouncil.org
NUTS: UK
Internet address(es)
Main address: http://www.britishcouncil.org
Address of the buyer profile: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/britishcouncil
I.4) Type of the contracting authority
Body governed by public law
I.5) Main activity
Other: 10
Section II: Object
II.1) Scope of the procurement
II.1.1) Title
Monitoring and Evaluation Service — Developing Inclusive and Creative Economies
Reference number: BC/00710
II.1.2) Main CPV code
79419000
II.1.3) Type of contract
Services
II.1.4) Short description
The British Council is seeking a contractor to conduct an evaluation of DICE. The purpose of the evaluation is to learn lessons from the programme to strengthen and improve its implementation and the design, and to inform its potential future development. The British Council launched an ambitious, 2-year pilot programme, Developing inclusive and creative economies (DICE), in March 2018. A 7 500 000 GBP programme, DICE seeks to promote sustainable and inclusive development by stimulating and strengthening the social and creative enterprise ecosystems in 5 emerging economies: Brazil, Egypt, Indonesia, Pakistan and South Africa — in partnership with the UK. The global DICE team works purposefully and collaboratively across silos, systems, sectors, organisations, generations and borders to deliver global and in-country initiatives at 3 levels of the economy – systemic, institutional and individual.
II.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots:
No
II.1.7) Total value of the procurement
Value excluding VAT:
350 000.00
GBP
II.2) Description
II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
79419000
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UK
Main site or place of performance:
BRAZIL, EGYPT, INDONESIA, PAKISTAN and SOUTH AFRICA – in partnership with the UK.
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
The British Council is seeking a contractor to conduct an evaluation of DICE. The purpose of the evaluation is to learn lessons from the programme to strengthen and improve its implementation and the design, and to inform its potential future development. To do this, the evaluators are expected to collect evidence to test the hypotheses behind DICE’s theory of change, the causal pathways of the programme intervention, and the ‘space’ in which the programme exists. Through this, the evaluation will explore the ‘proof of concept’ of the programme. The primary target audiences for the evaluation are within the British Council both centrally (UK) and in offices globally, including the 5 DICE countries. In addition, the results of the evaluation will be shared with a number of secondary audiences including UK government departments, funders/donors and partners; and with those that received grants from the DICE Fund. More generally aspects of the evaluation will likely be relevant to share with the UK general public about the work of the British Council through the Council’s wider communications strategy. Given the DICE team’s agile planning approach (Values, Section 1.6) and by nature of it being a pilot programme, we are seeking an evaluation that is developmental and supportive in approach. As a result, it is not expected that the evaluation will have traditional baseline, mid-term and end-term elements. Rather, it is expected that the evaluation will be ongoing in nature over the life of the programme (i.e. to March 2020) and should be designed and implemented in such a way to allow continued evaluation beyond that time should there be a successor or follow-on programme.
II.2.5) Award criteria
Quality criterion: Knowledge, quality and experience/methodology and approach/presentation
/ Weighting: 30 % / 30 % / 15 %
Cost criterion: Commercial
/ Weighting: 25 %
II.2.11) Information about options
Options:
No
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
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1) Description
IV.1.1) Type of procedure
Open procedure
IV.1.8) Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement:
Yes
IV.2) Administrative information
IV.2.1) Previous publication concerning this procedure
Notice number in the OJ S:
2019/S 020-043601
Section V: Award of contract
Lot No: 1
Contract No: BC/00710
Title: Monitoring and Evaluation Service — Developing Inclusive and Creative Economies
A contract/lot is awarded:
Yes
V.2 Award of contract
V.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract
30/03/2019
V.2.2) Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 17
Number of tenders received from SMEs: 4
Number of tenders received from tenderers from EU Member States: 2
Number of tenders received from tenderers from non-EU Member States: 1
Number of tenders received by electronic means: 17
The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators:
No
V.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
ITAD Ltd
Hove
UK
NUTS: UK
The contractor is an SME:
Yes
V.2.4) Information on value of the contract/lot (excluding VAT)
Initial estimated total value of the contract/lot:
Total value of the contract/lot:
: 291 610.00
GBP
V.2.5) Information about subcontracting
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.4) Procedures for review
VI.4.1) Review body
British Council
Bridgewater House, 58 Whitworth Street
M1 6BB
UK
VI.4.3) Review procedure
Precise information on deadline(s) for review procedures:
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice
30/07/2019