Foreign economic-aid-related services

Tender description

The UK Department for International Development (DFID) and the Stabilisation Unit (SU) are seeking a service provider to deliver the Humanitarian Emergency Response, Operations and Stabilisation Programme (HEROS). DFID and SU have outsourced some of their emergency response and operations capability since the early 1990's with the current contract in place since May 2012. Given the ever changing and evolving global context in which this contract will be delivered, we are seeking innovative bids, and invite bidders to consider ways in which they are able to change and improve the service provided over the period of this contract based on operational experience and lessons identified throughout implementation. The programme consists of 3 objectives: — Humanitarian emergency response management o Humanitarian planning, preparedness and capacity building o Anticipation, surveillance and early warning/action o Management, coordination and communications — Operational capability and deployment o Sourcing staff including surge capacity o Staff deployment/management o Staff security — Procurement, logistics and operational capability o Procurement support o Logistics support o Operational capability.