Single Supplier Framework Contracts for the provision of Freedom of Information Training Services.

Tender description

The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (the “Contracting Authority”) is issuing this request for tenders (“RFT”) as a central purchasing body for use by the Framework Clients (defined at 1.4 of the RFT). The Office of Government Procurement (the “OGP”) is an office within the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform tasked with sourcing goods and services on behalf of the public service. References to the Contracting Authority will be deemed to include the OGP. (The Contracting Authority invites tenders (“Tenders”) from economic operators (“Tenderers”) for the award of single supplier framework contracts (the “Framework Contracts”) for the provision of the services as described in Appendix 1 to this RFT (“the Services”). In summary, the Services comprise: Freedom of Information and Public Access to Information Training Services, to be provided nationwide to eligible entities (defined below) in relation to the Freedom of Information Act 2014, and to any bodies that become subject to Freedom of Information legislation, whether under the 2014 Act; upon their creation, or by way of any subsequent Statutory Instrument (SI) which amends or replaces FOI primary legislation.