Notice Information
Notice Title
Provision of a Fund Manager for the Blue Planet Fund
Notice Description
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is seeking to appoint a Challenge Fund Manager to administer competitive grant funding schemes under the Blue Planet Fund (BPF) between FY22/23 to FY2029/30. The initial contract will be offered for a period of three years with options to extend. The potential PS65m grant funding will establish a new competitive fund that will focus solely on tackling marine issues across the world in all four BPF themes and will focus on activities under the four Defra-led BPF outcomes: marine protected areas (MPAs) and other effective conservation measures (OECMs); illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing (IUU); (inter)national fisheries; and marine pollution. Climate outcomes will be indirectly delivered through the Defra-led outcomes. It will also provide benefits towards the other three outcomes (critical marine habitats, small-scale fisheries, and sustainable aquaculture) which are led by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO). The appointed supplier will: * Manage the administration of the grant application and award processes for the fund for the lifetime of the contract, ensuring good use of public money. * Provide support to the expert committee, the Defra competitive fund team and directly to projects. * Provide effective management and monitoring and reporting of all projects. * Provide effective support to Delivery Partners. * Evaluate projects and deliver improvements to the fund's processes based on evidence, best practice and outreach. * Liaise with the independent MEL evaluator on the evaluation of the fund, which will involve sharing of documentation, reports, making recommendations for changes based on results and knowledge of the project portfolio: * Provide ad hoc technical advice or briefing on issues arising from new or proposed developments to the grant schemes or specific one-off tasks. This notice invites potential suppliers to a market engagement virtual event (using Teams) between 2pm - 3pm on 7 July 2022. The event will set out the Authority's intention and seek feedback to inform the tender exercise. We are seeking comments and questions to the proposals outlined to help us to finalise the shape of the forthcoming tender specification. We reserve the right to amend, add to or withdraw all or any part of the requirements presented. All answers are tentative and qualified by the exploratory nature of this market engagement supplier event. Feedback will be collated and will be made available to all attendees and organisations that have registered an interest in this forthcoming tender opportunity along with a copy of the presentation. Interested parties should email simon.desborough@defra.gov.uk with your name, email address, job title and the organisation you represent. Invites will be issued from 14 June 2022 onwards.
Lot Information
Lot 1
This is a Prior Information Notice to facilitate market engagement. The Authority is seeking to approach the market in the coming months to appoint a fund manager. The Authority is looking for the markets comments on the requirement to inform the Specification and timeline.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-03429b
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/015349-2022
- Current Stage
- Planning
- All Stages
- Planning
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- Planning Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Not Specified
- Procurement Method Details
- Not specified
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- Not specified
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
71 - Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services
75 - Administration, defence and social security services
79 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security
90 - Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental services
98 - Other community, social and personal services
-
- CPV Codes
71248000 - Supervision of project and documentation
75130000 - Supporting services for the government
75211200 - Foreign economic-aid-related services
79421000 - Project-management services other than for construction work
90720000 - Environmental protection
98910000 - Services specific to international organisations and bodies
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £7,000,000 £1M-£10M
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- Not specified
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 1 Jun 20223 years ago
- Submission Deadline
- Not specified
- Future Notice Date
- 23 Aug 2022Expired
- Award Date
- Not specified
- Contract Period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Planned
- Lots Status
- Planned
- Awards Status
- Not Specified
- Contracts Status
- Not Specified
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- DEFRA NETWORK ETENDERING PORTAL
- Contact Name
- Simon Desborough
- Contact Email
- simon.desborough@defra.gov.uk
- Contact Phone
- +44 2072385921
Buyer Location
- Locality
- LONDON
- Postcode
- SW1P 3JR
- 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
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
View full OCDS Record for this contracting process
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