Business and management consultancy and related services

Tender description

Crown Commercial Service (CCS) wishes to establish a pan government Framework Agreement for use by UK public sector bodies which include Central Government Departments and their Arm Length Bodies and Agencies, the wider public sector and third sector including, including but not limited to, local government, health, education, police, fire and rescue, housing associations and charities. This agreement will complement the Management Consultancy Framework Agreement (RM3745), which is managed by CCS. Scope of assignments may be national or international. Please note that this procurement is for professional services and not contingent workforce. The Supplier shall deliver assignments which may result in: Single, multiple assignments or a single project addressing a broad range of business consulting services for both advice and delivery. Reactive assignments, where the requirements and outcomes are known by the Customer. The Supplier shall deliver assignments which may result in: Assignments providing procurement, supply chain and commercial consultancy expertise to Customers. These may include advice and delivery of: Complex commercial procurement transactions, strategic, operational and dedicated large scale deployments. Procurement processes which may include but not limited to: requests for information, pre-qualification questionnaires, invitation to tender, specification and drafting. Transactional functional services which may include but not limited to: purchase to pay, purchase orders, contract management, automation, digitalisation or administering work, structuring of commercial models, which may include but not limited to: private finance initiative/public finance initiative/joint ventures/public private partnership and social economic partnerships. Category management including make or buy decisions. The Supplier shall deliver assignments which may result in: Advice and/or delivery of multi discipline multiple work streams/programmes or portfolios of work. Programmes or portfolios of work across government which are complex, multi-disciplinary, transformational and large scale Lead/support for Customers in the design, construction and implementation of dynamic, multiple work stream and interdependent projects. Services are likely to be assignments providing high level strategic advice to permanent secretaries, ministers and other senior civil/public servants, they may result in: Proposals to Customers which are based on insights, intelligence and expertise, academic research, papers written and published. Advice to support government direction or policies, as above based on knowledge and consultancy capabilities introduction of best practice and market leading advice to government. Diagnostic and analytical support for public sector leadership/management. Assignments to develop and or enhance business strategy in support of delivery of business goals.