Expired contract

Modern Slavery - Development of Maturity Assessment Toolkit

Details

Buyer: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA)
Supplier(s): Action Sustainability
Value: £67,375
Duration: 6 months
Topic: General management consultancy services
Published: 7 October 2024
Source: uk:contracts_finder

Tender description

One off piece of work to develop and refine the proposed skeleton maturity assessment framework as identified in the Abolishing Modern Slavery in Defra group report. The key objective of the work will be to produce a toolkit that features: • A simple, standalone maturity assessment tool (based on the initial skeleton framework proposed in the report produced in 2024) that enables Defra group organisations to evaluate their modern slavery risk management capabilities, aligned with best practice outlined in BS25700:2022 Organisational Responses to Modern Slavery and PPN 02/23: Tackling Modern Slavery in Government Supply Chains. This tool will: o Assess current maturity levels across key aspects of modern slavery risk management. o Identify capability gaps o Highlight specific actions to improve maturity It will enable organisations to systematically evaluate and enhance their approach to managing modern slavery risks.

Timeline

Completed: Award date30 September 2024
Completed: Award published7 October 2024
Current notice
Completed: Contract expiry date31 March 2025

About the buyer

The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) is a ministerial department that also buys through agencies such as the Environment Agency, the Rural Payments Agency and the Animal and Plant Health Agency. Suppliers register on the DEFRA eCommercial website, Atamis, to compete for contract opportunities across the department. Larger opportunities are advertised through the Find a Tender service under the Procurement Act 2023, in force since February 2025. DEFRA also procures goods and services through the Crown Commercial Service. Existing contracts and frameworks set up under the previous procurement regulations remain valid until they expire.

Procurement spend from central entities makes up 66% of overall UK public spend.

Over the past 5 years, most of DEFRA's contract awards have been in research and development, construction work and business services.

Relevant CPV codes

79411000 · General management consultancy services

Decision makers

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