Expired contract

Rapid Deployment Team Training for Crisis Management Department

Details

Buyer: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Supplier(s): Groundtruth Consulting Ltd
Value: £1,525,260
Duration: 3 years
Topic: Education and training services
Published: 12 September 2023
Source: uk:contracts_finder

Tender description

To provide a comprehensive training solution which enables the FCDO to deploy staff at short notice into difficult operating environments across the world with the right skills and knowledge to be able to assist eligible persons (EP) living, travelling and working around the world when they are most in need. This currently involves being a part of the recruitment process (role-play stage) and training new team members three times per year in classes of approximately 24 participants. As a minimum, this allows 72 new team members, including participants from the British Red Cross and other Government Departments to be ready to deploy. 18 of these (six per course) will require training as team leaders.

Timeline

Completed: Award date23 June 2023
Completed: Award published12 September 2023
Current notice
Completed: Contract expiry date18 June 2026

About the buyer

The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office is a ministerial department that buys through its own Commercial Directorate. Four category teams cover programme delivery, estates and security, digital and technology, and corporate services. The department runs its own frameworks, such as the Global Development Delivery Framework, and dynamic purchasing systems for construction and global facilities management.

A commercial pipeline is updated every quarter.

Over the past 5 years, most of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office's contract awards have been in business services, transport equipment and construction work.

Decision makers

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