Closed tender

Verification and Technical Assurance Programme - Ukraine (VERITAS-UKR)

Details

Value
£15,000,000
Topic
Foreign economic-aid-related services
Published
28 August 2025
Submission
6 October 2025

Tender description

The FCDO is seeking a Supplier to deliver demand-led independent Third-Party Monitoring (TPM) service and portfolio evidence research analysis for the FCDO’s ODA portfolio in Ukraine (which is managed by the British Embassy Kyiv’s (BEK). The Contract is intended to provide assurance and transparency of results being achieved by the FCDO’s implementing partners (IPs) and downstream partners in Ukraine to increase accountability to project beneficiaries and achieve greater assurance for the portfolio. The Contract will deliver against seven different work-streams. It will also work to pilot and if successful scale-up delivery of a CSO- led model of TPM. It will support the generation of evidence, analysis, and learning to inform, assure, and improve cohesive policy, programmatic and diplomatic decision-making in reference to the FCDO’s ODA portfolio in Ukraine.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Tender published28 August 2025
    Current notice
  2. Completed: Submission date6 October 2025

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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