Price Review 2024 - Supplementary Support

Tender description

This Voluntary Ex-Ante Transparency (VEAT) relates the intention to award of a contract to provide additional capacity to support the delivery of the Price Review (PR24), through the provision of flexible access to high quality resources across a range of technical skillsets within the scope of the following workstreams: Risk and return / cost of capital; Financial modelling; Data governance and modelling coordination; Direct procurement for customers; Costs; Outcomes and Leadership/ Coordination. The contract shall be awarded under Regulation 32 as Ofwat intends to award this public contract following the negotiated procedure without prior publication of a contract notice. Justification of this intention together with full details of the intended contract are included within sections II.2.4 and IV.1.1 of this notice. Lot 1: This is a VEAT notice and relates to Award notice reference 2022/S 000-029817 for the Delivery Partner for Price Review 2024. It is the intention to award a separate contract to two suppliers - Grant Thornton UK LLP and PA Consulting Limited. The contracts will be used on a need only basis to respond to changing requirements throughout the period of the contract, in particular for those projects where the existing Delivery Partner contract for PR24 may be unable to fulfil the requirement. The contract is intended to commence in September 2023 (subject to final agreement) and any required services shall complete by January 2025. The contract shall be capped to a value of GBP 1m ex VAT (GPB 1,200,00 incl VAT) for each supplier. Lot 1: This is a VEAT notice and relates to Award notice reference 2022/S 000-029817 for the Delivery Partner for Price Review 2024. It is the intention to award a separate contract to two suppliers - Grant Thornton UK LLP and PA Consulting Limited. The contracts will be used on a need only basis to respond to changing requirements throughout the period of the contract, in particular for those projects where the existing Delivery Partner contract for PR24 may be unable to fulfil the requirement. The contract is intended to commence in September 2023 (subject to final agreement) and any required services shall complete by January 2025. The contract shall be capped to a value of GBP 1m ex VAT (GPB 1,200,00 incl VAT) for each supplier.