Notice Information
Notice Title
Vaccine Hesitancy Platform
Notice Description
The Cabinet Office (the 'Authority') has awarded a contract to the supplier to deliver an international platform to provide robust insight and analysis, shareable content and capability support to enable partners to deliver communications activity that increases vaccine confidence and counters health misinformation.
Lot Information
Lot 1
The Cabinet Office (the 'Authority') has awarded a contract to the supplier to deliver a portfolio of training courses to support communications capability building, focus on training users from both the UK and international partners in the use of Digital Communications.
Procurement Information
This contract was Direct Awarded under Reg 32(2) (c) of the Public Procurement Regulations. Extreme urgency brought about by events unforeseeable for the contracting authority and in accordance with the strict conditions stated in the directive. The coronavirus disease (Covid-19) is a serious infectious respiratory disease and its consequences pose a risk to life. The Platform was needed addressing the immediate health response, the G7 was seeking to promote fair and equitable access to vaccines, supported via ACT-A/COVAX, and consider how to address barriers to the rapid distribution and take-up of vaccines. The widespread misinformation about the importance, safety and effectiveness of vaccines is one such barrier. Its impact on the level of confidence and trust our and other countries' citizens have in vaccines poses a risk to uptake globally, and therefore the success of our overall response. The FCDO prioritised a set of countries for urgent support given the challenges with the vaccine roll-out and levels of vaccine hesitancy. The urgency of the platform is reinforced by the variant that emerged in India and India's 2nd wave in March 2021 and the high levels of vaccine hesitancy in India. There is also an additional variation to this contract for an uplift in value of an additional PS524,601.58. This modification has been made in accordance with PCR Regulation 72(1)(e): where the modifications, irrespective of their value, are not substantial within the meaning of paragraph (8). Phase 2 development work was needed to further enhance the Platform to deliver the outcomes needed.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-031b4a
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/006203-2022
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- Award Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Limited
- Procurement Method Details
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- Large
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
79 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security
80 - Education and training services
-
- CPV Codes
79341400 - Advertising campaign services
80420000 - E-learning services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- Not specified
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- £4,557,584 £1M-£10M
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 7 Mar 20223 years ago
- Submission Deadline
- Not specified
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 1 Mar 20214 years ago
- Contract Period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Cancelled
- Awards Status
- Active
- Contracts Status
- Active
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- CABINET OFFICE
- Contact Name
- Not specified
- Contact Email
- commercial@cabinetoffice.gov.uk
- Contact Phone
- Not specified
Buyer Location
- Locality
- LONDON
- Postcode
- SW1A 2AS
- Post Town
- South West London
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLI London
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLI3 Inner London - West
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLI35 Westminster and City of London
- Delivery Location
- Not specified
-
- Local Authority
- Westminster
- Electoral Ward
- St James's
- Westminster Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster
Further Information
Notice URLs
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
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