Award of Crown Commercial Services – G-Cloud 12 – Framework Ref: RM1557.12 – MFF Amendments

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Marine Scotland made the decision to not continue with MMO and the UK government with the upgraded version of MFF – FaSS for 2021/2022. This was due to the limited timeline available to Scotland and the low benefit, high effort demand. Therefore it was then agreed to continue the use of the MFF system for Grant Application process for Marine Scotland for the Financial year 2021/22 only. However, new governmental objectives and outcomes have since been released that future grants applications will need to be reviewed against. Steps have been taken internally to work through this comparison manually offline. To continue the use of the MFF system, specific areas will need to be updated to remain compliant, legally and objectively. Additionally, a complete upgrade of MFF into the new MFS objectives is currently unavailable due to the scale of changes required and the restricted timeline. The required changes are minimal as they are compliance only changes.