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Awarded · ResultStage · contract

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Oman COVID-19 Rapid Innovation (RAIN) Programme

IT ServicesCPV 72000000
Value£100k
Awarded5 Oct 2020
Published4 Dec 2020
RegionLondon
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£100ktotal contract value
median £120k
this tender£0£3.5m

This sits in the lower-middle of the IT Services band — a mid-scale opportunity. Based on 36,449 valued IT Services tenders in our corpus.

The brief

Oman is facing up the global challenges of CV-19, by mobilising its indigenous tech ecosystem to develop innovative responses.

Though developing quickly, Oman's tech ecosystem is small and often insular.

Our project aims bring in UK expertise and support to enable the growth of the tech ecosystem, rapid development of innovative projects and identification of new challenges that Oman's tech ecosystem is not yet capable of responding to.

This project will come under the UK-Oman Digital Hub initiative, and linked to previous contracts, including those awarded to Plexal to design Omantel's Innovation Hub and CyLon to deliver the Ministry of Technology and Communication's Cyber Accelerator.

Leadership of a network of UK and Omani partners to provide international support, expertise and best practice to support Omani Covid-19 tech/innovation responses, particularly developing current innovation projects in Oman via the Oman Technology Fund and Omani Ministry of Technology and Communications (MOTC), identifying projects from the Omani Public Sector and supporting solutions to their issues, and enabling the identification and solution to projects from across Oman - including via the development and delivery of a Hackathon designed to solve identified issues.

The supplier shall deliver all of the following: 1.

IDENTIFICATION OF LONG-TERM CV-19 PROBLEM SETS 2.

DEVELOPMENT OF A PROGRAMME OF SUPPORT 3.

DELIVERY OF CV-19 INNOVATION PROGRAMME

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

Our project aims bring in UK expertise

Our project aims bring in UK expertise and support to enable the growth of the tech ecosystem, rapid development of innovative projects and identification of new challenges that Oman's tech ecosystem is not yet capable of responding to.

02

This project will come under the UK-Oman

This project will come under the UK-Oman Digital Hub initiative, and linked to previous contracts, including those awarded to Plexal to design Omantel's Innovation Hub and CyLon to deliver the Ministry of Technology and Communication's Cyber Accelerator.

03

The supplier shall deliver all of

The supplier shall deliver all of the following:.

04

DEVELOPMENT OF A PROGRAMME OF SUPPORT

DEVELOPMENT OF A PROGRAMME OF SUPPORT.

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Source & provenance
OCID
26b41cbf-4bbc-4b09-92fa-7b8edaf80311
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
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Buyer ref
CPG/4541/2020
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