Procurement consultancy services

Tender description

The Defence Academy, part of the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence, intends to award a contract to Cronos Consultancy Services Limited (the Contractor) to provide consultancy services and subject matter expertise in relation to key contracts to the Defence Academy to support its transformation programme on to meet its savings and efficiency targets. The Contract duration is three months and has an estimated value of 35 500 GBP net of VAT. It is considered that the contract can be awarded to the contractor using the negotiated procedure without prior publication pursuant to Article 32(2)(b)(ii) of Directive 2014/24/EU and Regulation 32(2)(b)(ii) of the regulations on the basis that competition is absent and no reasonable alternative or substitute exists for technical reasons. The current contract with Cronos Consultancy Services was contracted under the OJEU threshold and has delivered on a number of targets set by Defence Academy as part of the transformation programme to deliver savings, efficiencies and to hold the contractors to account in their contractual obligations on a number of high value contracts. There is a need to award a new contract to Cronos for 3 months to enable contractor to complete their outstanding actions to enable the Defence Academy to compete the next phase of the requirement. The activity requiring completion is to review the effectiveness of two PFI Defence Academy Contracts and recommend how these should be managed. The additional activity is within scope of the original contract and the need to award a new contract is brought about by delays in the transformation programme which were outside of the contractors control, which impacted on the ability of Cronos to meet the delivery timescales set on the original contract.