Contract award notice
Results of the procurement procedure
Section I: Contracting
authority
I.1) Name and addresses
Foreign and 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.4) Type of the contracting authority
Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions
I.5) Main activity
General public services
Section II: Object
II.1) Scope of the procurement
II.1.1) Title
The Provision of Diplomatic Academy Trade Faculty Expert Level Curriculum
Reference number: CPG/2451/2017
II.1.2) Main CPV code
80000000
II.1.3) Type of contract
Services
II.1.4) Short description
The FCO has a requirement to develop our trade capacity-building programmes for civil servants in the UK and overseas in order to meet the needs of future trade policy officers and negotiators.
II.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots:
No
II.1.7) Total value of the procurement
Value excluding VAT:
249 190.00
GBP
II.2) Description
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
Background.
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s Trade Policy and Negotiations Faculty currently offers foundation, practitioner and expert level training to civil servants across all government departments
Practitioner.
The practitioner programme is available across all UK government departments, including overseas, and is designed for officials to apply knowledge gained in support and delivery of the UK’s international trade policy priorities, and its trade negotiating agenda in different fora.
The practitioner programme currently comprises 11 units of online training (approximately 45 minutes per unit) and this is complemented with face to face learning. The content is available to all staff working for HM Government in the UK or overseas. The practitioner programme covers:
(i) characteristics of modern trade;
(ii) political economy of trade policy;
(iii) the WTO framework and principles;
(iv) free trade agreements;
(v) trade dispute settlement;
(vi) trade policy tools for goods, services and investment;
(vii) tariffs and quotas;
(viii) trade in services;
(ix) foreign investment;
(x) non-tariff measures;
(xi) trade negotiation processes. The face to face workshops are delivered through cohorts for UK learners and by region, overseas. Learners are free to access the digital material on their own, independently of workshop availability expert.
In the summer of 2017 4 expert level programmes were developed (covering: rules of origin, customs / trade facilitation, TBT and financial services). These units are being delivered through the government’s Civil Service Learning framework with HM Treasury delivering the financial services component of the pilot programme, working with other government departments. There are currently nearly 60 participants (from different UK government departments) participating in these intensive ‘deep dive’ programmes over a 6 month period.
II.2.5) Award criteria
Quality criterion: Technical
/ Weighting: 80 %
Quality criterion: Commercial/Price
/ Weighting: 20 %
Price
/ Weighting:
20 %
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 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:
2017/S 238-494035
IV.2.9) Information about termination of call for competition in the form of a prior information notice
The contracting authority will not award any further contracts based on the above prior information notice
Section V: Award of contract
Contract No: CPG/2451/2017
Title: Diplomatic Academy Trade Faculty Expert Level Curriculum
A contract/lot is awarded:
Yes
V.2 Award of contract
V.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract
03/04/2018
V.2.2) Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 6
The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators:
No
V.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
Linklaters LLP
One Silk Street
London
EC2Y 8HQ
UK
NUTS: UK
The contractor is an SME:
No
V.2.4) Information on value of the contract/lot (excluding VAT)
Total value of the contract/lot:
: 249 190.00
GBP
V.2.5) Information about subcontracting
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.4) Procedures for review
VI.4.1) Review body
Foreign and Commonwelath Office
London
UK
VI.4.2) Body responsible for mediation procedures
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
London
UK
VI.4.4) Service from which information about the review procedure may be obtained
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
London
UK
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice
22/05/2018