Contract award notice
Results of the procurement procedure
Section I: Contracting
entity
I.1) Name and addresses
Department for International Development
East Kilbride
UK
E-mail: p-graham@dfid.gov.uk
NUTS: UKM95
Internet address(es)
Main address: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-international-development/
Address of the buyer profile: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-international-development/
I.4) Type of the contracting authority
Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions
I.5) Main activity
Other: International Development
Section II: Object
II.1) Scope of the procurement
II.1.1) Title
PROJ10008 — Girls' Education Challenge Phase 2b (GEC2b)
Reference number: DN138
II.1.2) Main CPV code
75211200
II.1.3) Type of contract
Services
II.1.4) Short description
The Girls Education Challenge is a Fund Management programme. It is working to provide quality education for up to 1.5 million marginalised and highly marginalised girls. The GEC aims to find better ways of getting girls. into school and ensuring they receive a quality education and learn whilst they are there. GEC is the world’s largest fund dedicated to girls’ education. DFID are now procuring a new fund manager to continue services in order to complete the work to meet the original target numbers of marginalised girls supported by existing projects until the programme’s natural end in June 2025. The programme is currently estimated to be reaching over 1.4 million marginalised girls and 230 000 highly marginalised girls. Ensuring they continue to learn, complete primary school and transition to and through secondary education and then enter further education, training or employment, gaining literacy, numeracy and other skills relevant for life and work.
II.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots:
No
II.1.7) Total value of the procurement
Value excluding VAT:
19 000 000.00
GBP
II.2) Description
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UKM95
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
The UK's Department for International Development has now awarded a contract for the management of the existing GEC portfolio which currently supports up to 41 projects in 17 countries at a cost of over GBP 500 million (2017-2025).
The awarded supplier will assume the role of fund manager for the GEC programme until the programme’s conclusion in March 2025. The programme is currently predominantly funded by DFID, with additional funding provided by USAID for project activities in Afghanistan and Somalia. There may be additional future funding provided by other donors, to expand existing project activities or to fund new projects for example.
II.2.5) Award criteria
Quality criterion: Technical proposal
/ Weighting: 60
Cost criterion: Commercial proposal
/ Weighting: 40
II.2.11) Information about options
Options:
Yes
Description of options:
DFID will award a contract for an initial term of 56 months at a contracts value of GBP 17 414 527. The contract includes extension options of up to an additional 30 months. DFID may also scale up the programme should it prove to be having a strong impact and has the potential to yield better results in line with the terms and conditions and as per the tender documents. Any extension and/or scale up will be for an additional maximum value of 50 % of the contract value. The managed funds for beneficiary GEC projects are provided separately to the contract value and this is set at a minimum of GBP 159 585 473. DFID reserves the right to scale back or discontinue this programme at any point in line with the terms and conditions.
II.2.13) Information about European Union funds
The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds:
No
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 212-520447
Section V: Award of contract
Contract No: 10039
Title: Girls' Education Challenge Phase 2b (GEC2b)
A contract/lot is awarded:
Yes
V.2 Award of contract
V.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract
14/07/2020
V.2.2) Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 1
The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators:
No
V.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
London
UK
NUTS: UKI
The contractor is an SME:
No
V.2.4) Information on value of the contract/lot (excluding VAT)
Total value of the contract/lot:
: 17 414 527.00
GBP
V.2.5) Information about subcontracting
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.3) Additional information
See OJEU publication 2019/S 212-520447.
VI.4) Procedures for review
VI.4.1) Review body
Department for International Development
East Kilbride
UK
VI.4.2) Body responsible for mediation procedures
Department for International Development
East Kilbride
UK
VI.4.3) Review procedure
Precise information on deadline(s) for review procedures:
N/A
VI.4.4) Service from which information about the review procedure may be obtained
Department for International Development
East Kilbride
UK
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice
19/08/2020