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Awarded · ResultStage · contract

Department for Work and Pensions

Specialist IT Commercial Services

IT ServicesCPV 72222300
Value£4.8m
Awarded1 Dec 2020
Published20 Jan 2021
RegionUK-wide
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£4.8mtotal contract value
median £120k
this tender£0£5.2m

This is a large award for IT Services — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 36,449 valued IT Services tenders in our corpus.

The brief

Delivery of Procurement and Commercial Service for strategic support on complex and challenging commercial initiatives for DWP.

The Statements of Work are complex in nature, and require capable, and experienced Strategic and specialised resource to execute.

DWP is solely focused on robust outcomes and will leave the selected supplier to determine the most appropriate resource with the required skill level and experience to allocate to the DWP order, including substituting staff during periods of leave or natural wastage thus ensuring no breaks in service and full focus on achieving delivery outcomes.

The key skillset required from the Specialist IT Commercial Services Supplier are: - Experience of negotiating with technical suppliers on major complex transactions of values in excess of £100m per negotiation - Robust record of value for money optimisation when exiting large complex contracts with challenging suppliers - Deep technical ability in the areas of Applications, Hosting, Networks, Desktop, Service Management. - Strategic insight and experience of delivering Outsourcing/Insourcing projects and associated risk. - Experience of working with major public and private sector clients with an understanding of government governance processes and protocol.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

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Delivery of Procurement and Commercial Service

Delivery of Procurement and Commercial Service for strategic support on complex and challenging commercial initiatives for DWP.

02

Experience of negotiating with technical suppliers on

Experience of negotiating with technical suppliers on major complex transactions of values in excess of £100m per negotiation.

03

Strategic insight and experience of delivering Outsourcing/Insourcing

Strategic insight and experience of delivering Outsourcing/Insourcing projects and associated risk.

04

Experience of working with major public

Experience of working with major public and private sector clients with an understanding of government governance processes and protocol.

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Source & provenance
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Stage
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