Expired contract

Nutrition Action for Systemic Change

Details

Supplier(s)
DAI Global Ltd
Value
£1,000,000
Duration
1 year
Topic
Foreign economic-aid-related services
Published
23 February 2024

Tender description

The FCDO is scoping options for a new Nutrition and Food Systems Technical Assistance Facility to provide technical assistance (TA) to support the design and development of FCDO programming and policy, and to facilitate UK nutrition policy and programming objectives. TA will be provided primarily to FCDO's central and country teams, but also to LMIC governments (particularly EPD focus countries, food crisis-affected countries, and countries with a high burden of malnutrition) and other organisations (e.g. multilaterals, development finance institutions, civil society organisations, global platforms like the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement or UN Food Systems Coalitions) in support of FCDO programme and policy objectives and where FCDO requires independent advice or inputs into new and innovative thinking and products and rapid provision of technical teams to deliver specific requirements where there is a time-sensitive need (for instance to respond to food crises in the horn of Africa). The contract is for 12 months that will support FCDO nutrition team to build the case for the main nutrition tender.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Award date14 December 2023
  2. Completed: Award published23 February 2024
    Current notice
  3. Completed: Contract expiry date13 December 2024

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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