Contract notice
Section I: Contracting
authority
I.1) Name and addresses
Foreign & Commonwealth Office
King Charles Street
London
SW1A 2AH
UK
Telephone: +44 2070081467
E-mail: Craig.Wormleighton@fco.gov.uk
NUTS: UK
Internet address(es)
Main address: www.gov.uk/fco
Address of the buyer profile: https://fco.bravosolution.co.uk
I.2) Joint procurement
The contract is awarded by a central purchasing body
I.3) Communication
The procurement documents are available for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge at:
https://fco.bravosolution.co.uk
Additional information can be obtained from the abovementioned address
Tenders or requests to participate must be sent electronically to:
https://fco.bravosolution.co.uk
Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to the abovementioned address
I.4) Type of the contracting authority
National or federal agency/office
I.5) Main activity
General public services
Section II: Object
II.1) Scope of the procurement
II.1.1) Title
The Provision of Rapid Deployment Training (RDT) for Crisis Management Department (CMD)
Reference number: CPG/2187/2017
II.1.2) Main CPV code
80510000
II.1.3) Type of contract
Services
II.1.4) Short description
One of the FCO’s top priorities is to assist British people living, travelling and working around the world when they are most in need and respond rapidly to all overseas crises, leading cross-government action. Crisis Management Department (CMD) is the lead department in the FCO during a crisis overseas and ensures the FCO responds effectively.
A key component of the FCO crisis response is the Rapid deployment team (RDT), a network of trained staff, who stand ready to deploy to the location of a crisis at short notice to augment the overseas response. RDT will work alongside staff from the UK mission in the country affected and are a short-term resource available to supplement Post resources. They report to the Head of mission.
II.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots:
No
II.2) Description
II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
79632000
80500000
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UK
Main site or place of performance:
London, United Kingdom.
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
To provide a comprehensive training solution which enables the FCO to deploy staff at short notice into difficult operating environments across the world with the right skills and knowledge to be able to assist British people living, travelling and working around the world when they are most in need.
To assist delivery of the following elements of the RDT recruitment process:
— To sit on the interview panel as an independent member alongside FCO colleagues.
— To conduct telephone role-plays with an agreed script using actors and psychosocial support specialists. To provide feedback to participants and rate performance against a set of criteria provided by the FCO.
To train at least 72 new team members per year, including participants from the British Red Cross and other Government Departments. 18 or more will require training as Team leaders. Training to be delivered at least 3 times per year in classes of 24 participants.
To provide refresher training as required to existing RDT members who attended the course more than x years previously and have not been deployed. Timings, number of staff will be at the discretion of the FCO. This training is not covered in the current contract; however, we would like to consider options for delivering this training going forward, budgets permitting.
Further details can be obtained from within the full ITT pack, available via the FCO's proprietary e-procurement portal, Bravo Solution, https://fco.bravosolution.co.uk/web/login
Registration is required to access and is free of charge. Once registered, please navigate to Project_1688 / ITT_2257.
II.2.5) Award criteria
Price is not the only award criterion and all criteria are stated only in the procurement documents
II.2.7) Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
Duration in months: 36
This contract is subject to renewal: No
II.2.9) Information about the limits on the number of candidates to be invited
II.2.10) Information about variants
Variants will be accepted:
No
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
Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information
III.1) Conditions for participation
III.1.2) Economic and financial standing
Selection criteria as stated in the procurement documents
III.1.3) Technical and professional ability
Selection criteria as stated in the procurement documents
III.2) Conditions related to the contract
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.2.2) Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate
Date:
27/04/2018
Local time: 12:00
IV.2.4) Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted
EN
IV.2.6) Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender
Tender must be valid until:
27/07/2018
IV.2.7) Conditions for opening of tenders
Date:
30/04/2018
Local time: 12:00
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.1) Information about recurrence
This is a recurrent procurement:
No
VI.3) Additional information
Interested potential providers can access the full invitation to tender pack from the FCO's proprietary e-procurement portal, Bravo Solution:
https://fco.bravosolution.co.uk/web/login
Registration to access the ITT is required, takes approximately 5 minutes and is free of charge.
References:
Project_1688 / ITT_2257.
Communication during the tender process must be carried out using the e-procurement portal's messaging function within the project / ITT shown above.
VI.4) Procedures for review
VI.4.1) Review body
Foreign & Commonwealth Office
London
SW1A 2AH
UK
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice
29/03/2018