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Cherwell District & South Northamptonshire Council

Consultancy Services Framework - AWARD

Business ServicesCPV 79400000 73210000 79414000 72000000 73200000 79411000 80500000 72224000 79410000 72221000 79411100
Value£70.0m
Awarded10 Jun 2018
Published6 Dec 2018
RegionUK-wide
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£70.0mtotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£75.6m

This is a large award for Business Services — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 57,319 valued Business Services tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The requirement of the Authorities is to establish a consultancy framework agreement in which is can call off the skills and resourced of external consultants when the need arises.

The Authorities may use this framework agreement where there may be areas of uncertainty or where the Authorities lack the internal capability or capacity to provide this type of resource.

The use of consultancy advice and resource will be mainly for the commissioning of internal projects to ensure effective service delivery of the Authorities' Transformation Programme.

The Authorities have undertaken a substantial amount of transformation related projects in a range of different service areas.

The transformation journey of the Authorities has allowed for new areas of opportunity to be explored, as well as new ways of working.

As such, the Authorities possess great degrees of knowledge and lessons that have been learnt throughout this journey.

Where capacity permits, the Authorities are anticipating that they will be able to sell expertise and provide support to other organisations, to help drive their own individual journeys.

This framework agreement will therefore have the scope to be able to be used by the Authorities when providing expertise and support for other organisations.

The contractors listed on the framework agreement, when called-off, will be able to work with the Authorities, when the Authorities sell their knowledge and additional capacity.

The Authorities may also use this framework agreement to second to and from those contractors who are listed in the agreement.

This will be used where the Authorities would like to share the learning and in order to develop internal staff.

This framework agreement will provide support in the following 3 key areas and will be divided into LOTs: LOT 1: Information Technology LOT 2: Human Resources LOT 3: Business Improvement and Change Management The opportunity is available for all organisations regardless of size, including SMEs.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

The Authorities may use this framework agreement

The Authorities may use this framework agreement where there may be areas of uncertainty or where the Authorities lack the internal capability or capacity to provide this type of resource.

02

The use of consultancy advice and resource

The use of consultancy advice and resource will be mainly for the commissioning of internal projects to ensure effective service delivery of the Authorities' Transformation Programme.

03

Where capacity permits, the Authorities are anticipating

Where capacity permits, the Authorities are anticipating that they will be able to sell expertise and provide support to other organisations, to help drive their own individual journeys.

04

This framework agreement will therefore have

This framework agreement will therefore have the scope to be able to be used by the Authorities when providing expertise and support for other organisations.

05

The contractors listed on the framework agreement

The contractors listed on the framework agreement, when called-off, will be able to work with the Authorities, when the Authorities sell their knowledge and additional capacity.

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The gates

What this notice demands of you

1 named, none in explicit obligation language. Each one is quoted from the notice.

Framework agreement (any)Frameworks & routes to market
The requirement of the Authorities is to establish a consultancy framework agreement in which is can call off the skills and resourced of external consultants when the need arises.

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Stage
contract · Contract
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