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Department for International Trade

Maritime Capability Campaign Office - Phase 2

Business ServicesCPV 79000000 79400000 79410000 79415000
Value£230k
Awarded15 Jul 2021
Published30 Jul 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
£230ktotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£1.6m

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

DIT are establishing the Maritime Capability Campaign Office (MCCO) to increase Maritime exports, and forms DIT's response to the National Ship Building Strategy.

The MCCO is being designed and established at pace, and as such DIT are seeking expert advice to ensure the design and implementation is as thorough and effective as possible.

This is the second phase of the planned external assistance programme for the MCCO and follows on directly from the initial scoping study and implementation plan already delivered.

This phase of work requires the subcontractor to provide an agile, multi-skilled team of subject matter experts to assist DIT in the detailed design and delivery of the MCCO Portfolio Programme Project Management (P3M) planning framework and associated artefacts, building out of the MCCO operating model and communication "tools", and support the business change / transformation to embed the new ways of working and culture within the MCCO and across the wider HMG stakeholder departments.

The Sub-contractor will be managed by the Customer's MCCO Programme Manager, who will ensure all outputs and deliverables are monitored and completed to required quality, and all necessary knowledge required for effective operation of MCCO transferred to the permanent staff members through use of deliverable documents and process/communication artefacts.

The deliverables required from this phase of work, as identified in the Phase 1 Implementation Plan and modified during subsequent discussion, are as follows; A.

Highly visual case for change & suitable communication approach (e.g., rich picture) B.

Target Operating Model (using POTI) C.

Benefits Realisation Model D.

Stakeholder map and RACI E.

P3M compliant programme management, governance and maturity approach F.

Implementation assurance framework and assessment G.

Forward Change Deployment / Implementation Plan The allocation of subcontractor resources to task and the quality level/degree of completion of these deliverables will be managed in accordance with agile principles, to ensure that effort is expended on the most critical items to MCCO establishment and ensure maximum Value for Money as the project progresses.

To support this agile approach a process of continuous review and assurance/approval of the deliverables and resource allocation/utilisation will be implemented. implemented.

This approach requires the subcontractor to provide a monthly summary report detailing.

1) Key activities completed in month.

2) Key activities planned for next month.

3) Progress against each deliverable.

4) Actual Resource expended vs plan for each month.

This information will be supplied by the Sub Contractor to the Customer's MCCO Programme Manager and approved by the the Customer's Head/Deputy Head MCCO.

Subject to approval of this monthly summary, authorisation for payment in arrears for time and materials consumed will be provided.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

The MCCO is being designed and established

The MCCO is being designed and established at pace, and as such DIT are seeking expert advice to ensure the design and implementation is as thorough and effective as possible.

02

The allocation of subcontractor resources to task

The allocation of subcontractor resources to task and the quality level/degree of completion of these deliverables will be managed in accordance with agile principles, to ensure that effort is expended on the most critical items to MCCO establishment and ensure maximum Value for Money as the project progresses.

03

To support this agile approach a process

To support this agile approach a process of continuous review and assurance/approval of the deliverables and resource allocation/utilisation will be implemented.

04

This approach requires the subcontractor to provide

This approach requires the subcontractor to provide a monthly summary report detailing.

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