Awarded contract

COAST MEL

Details

Supplier(s)
Itad Ltd
Value
£4,265,678
Duration
6 years
Topic
Foreign economic-aid-related services
Published
6 February 2024

Tender description

The purpose of this contract is to deliver an independent monitoring, evaluation and learning component for COAST. The Supplier will implement a suite of activities, set out in the published ToR involving close collaboration with and support to other COAST tier-1 delivery partners to support the following objectives for the component: i) Monitoring and Oversight: Ensure the COAST portfolio of activities across its components are monitored accurately, effectively and efficiently to support programme-level oversight, performance monitoring and results aggregation and reporting, including to support COAST's BPF portfolio reporting requirements; ii) Evaluation: COAST's activities are evaluated to understand what is working and what is not (and for who - with a focus on gender, economic, social and inclusion); iii) Learning to inform Decision Making: Lessons from COAST's delivery and emerging evidence are effectively captured and acted upon by the COAST programme team and tier-1 delivery partners to support effective decision making leading to impact and VfM, as well as to inform the global evidence base, and; iv) Coordination: COAST partners effectively coordinate and collaborate to ensure COAST achieves more than the sum of its individual components.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Award date8 January 2024
  2. Completed: Award published6 February 2024
    Current notice
  3. Next: Contract expiry date31 March 2030in 3 years

About the buyer

The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office is a ministerial department that buys through its own Commercial Directorate. Every procurement runs on Jaggaer, the department's eSourcing portal, where suppliers register to bid. Opportunities and awards are published on Contracts Finder, and bids above threshold need Central Digital Platform registration. A commercial pipeline is updated every quarter. 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.

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

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.

Relevant CPV codes

  • 75211200 · Foreign economic-aid-related services

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