--- title: "Green and Inclusive Growth Centre of Expertise" ocid: "ocds-b5fd17-44c94669-158d-426d-8984-421d98f06f5e" canonical_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-b5fd17-44c94669-158d-426d-8984-421d98f06f5e" markdown_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-44c94669-158d-426d-8984-421d98f06f5e.md" json_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-44c94669-158d-426d-8984-421d98f06f5e.json" source: "Contracts Finder" current_stage: "Planning" buyer: "FOREIGN COMMONWEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT OFFICE" published: "2024-05-24" --- # Green and Inclusive Growth Centre of Expertise Buyer: FOREIGN COMMONWEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT OFFICE Current stage: Planning OCID: ocds-b5fd17-44c94669-158d-426d-8984-421d98f06f5e [View canonical contract page](https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-b5fd17-44c94669-158d-426d-8984-421d98f06f5e) [Download OCDS JSON](https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-44c94669-158d-426d-8984-421d98f06f5e.json) ## Summary The Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office is initiating a tender for the Green and Inclusive Growth Centre of Expertise within the foreign economic-aid-related services industry. This planned procurement aims to establish one of five Economic Development Centres of Expertise at FCDO to support the UK's new International Development Strategy. The engagement end date for this tender is set for April 1, 2025. Businesses interested in sustainable poverty reduction, low carbon growth, and sectoral expertise in manufacturing and services should consider this opportunity. This tender creates opportunities for SMEs and VCSEs to participate in delivering quality jobs, economic inclusion, and women's economic empowerment through responsible and environmentally friendly business practices. FCDO is currently at the planning stage, with key milestones and engagement events scheduled to inform potential suppliers. Interested parties can register on the FCDO Portal for updates and attend the online event on June 12, 2024, to provide feedback for shaping the programme's delivery mechanisms. ## Notice The Green and Inclusive Growth Centre of Expertise (GIG CoE) is intended to be one of five Economic Development Centres of Expertise (COEs) being established at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) to support delivery of the UK's new International Development Strategy. COEs will offer demand led and efficient mechanisms to access the best expertise in the UK and globally from multiple sources including from within FCDO and XHMG, to support economic development. Consistent with commitments in the Development White Paper on locally-led development, COEs should also include local suppliers and expertise as a core part of the COE offer - potentially twinned/partnered with UK/international expertise. As part of this, FCDO is designing a new programme - UK Centre for Green and Inclusive Growth (GIG). This aims to build directly upon the success of the following FCDO flagship programmes which currently make up the first phase of the GIG CoE: - The International Growth Centre (2018-2026) - Growth Gateway (2019-2026) - Manufacturing Africa (2017-2026) - Work and Opportunities for Women (2016-2025) GIG will aim to contribute to inclusive and sustainable poverty reduction, promote low carbon transformational growth and enhance world class research, analysis and expertise in target sectors: mainly manufacturing and services, and are likely to include agri-processing, green construction materials, textiles, electric vehicle production parts and assembly, environment-friendly packaging; and the services that complement these sectors and account for much of the value-add in the supply chain (e.g. design, logistics, e-commerce, and professional services). Focusing on these sectoral drivers of green and inclusive growth in the real economy has been shown by predecessor programmes to address a market failure in overcoming the binding constraints to green and inclusive economic growth (e.g. low private sector productivity, lack of responsible business practices, lack of inclusion - particularly women's economic empowerment). GIG will seek to support generating quality jobs, economic inclusion and especially women's economic empowerment, responsible business, and actions to drive green transitions as objectives across all its work. This is a Prior Information Notice and not a call for competition at this time. It is used to highlight to the market that we intend to reach tender stage in the future. This programme is currently working through the FCDO Business Case approvals process. Please register interest on the FCDO Portal: (https://fcdo.bravosolution.co.uk/web/login.html(project_10939)(pqq_1655). We are holding an online event on 12th June 2024 at 2pm, please register your intention to attend using the Market Survey: https://forms.office.com/e/PXsdYF0ZVj. This event will be used to give information at this time and we will also be seeking feedback to inform design of the programme delivery mechanisms. Additional information: To register interest and future information, please login or register to FCDO's e-sourcing portal https://fcdo.bravosolution.co.uk . You can also access our Survey Monkey Questionnaire to register for our event:https://forms.office.com/e/PXsdYF0ZVj If you have any technical issues with accessing the Portal please call e-sourcing helpdesk: +44 0203 868 2859. ## Key Details | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication source | Contracts Finder | | Latest notice | https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/9c90ebd2-8c72-4a0e-b636-449972b6b818 | | Notice type | Market Engagement Notice | | Procurement type | Standard | | Procurement category | Not specified | | Procurement method | Not Specified | | Procurement method details | Not specified | | Tender suitability | SME, VCSE | | Awardee scale | Not specified | | All stages | Planning | ## Dates | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication date | 24 May 2024 | | Submission deadline | Not specified | | Future notice date | 1 Apr 2025 | | Award date | Not specified | | Contract period | Not specified | | Recurrence | Not specified | ## Values | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender value | Not specified | | Lots value | Not specified | | Awards value | Not specified | | Contracts value | Not specified | ## Status | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender status | Planning | | Lots status | Not specified | | Awards status | Not specified | | Contracts status | Not specified | ## Buyer | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Main buyer | FOREIGN COMMONWEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT OFFICE | | Locality | LONDON | | Post town | South West London | | Postcode | SW1A 2AH | | Country | England | | ITL 1 | TLI London | | ITL 2 | TLI3 Inner London - West | | ITL 3 | TLI35 Westminster and City of London | | Local authority | Westminster | | Electoral ward | St James's | | Westminster constituency | Cities of London and Westminster | | Delivery location | Not specified | ## CPV Codes ### Divisions - 75 - Administration, defence and social security services ### Codes - 75211200 - Foreign economic-aid-related services ## Release History - 24 May 2024 at 08:59 - Planning - Market Engagement Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/9c90ebd2-8c72-4a0e-b636-449972b6b818 - 23 May 2024 at 15:34 - Planning - Market Engagement Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/0abab201-dbaa-4e00-87af-36595b826d0a ## Documents - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/9c90ebd2-8c72-4a0e-b636-449972b6b818 24th May 2024 - Early engagement notice on Contracts Finder - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/0abab201-dbaa-4e00-87af-36595b826d0a 23rd May 2024 - Early engagement notice on Contracts Finder - http://fcdo.bravosolution.co.uk Information about FCDO - http://www.gov.uk/fcdo. eTendering FCDO Portal - free access to the tender documents ## Notice URLs - http://www.gov.uk/fcdo - http://www.gov.uk/fcdo/ - https://fcdo.bravosolution.co.uk - https://fcdo.bravosolution.co.uk/web/login.html(project_10939)(pqq_1655 - https://forms.office.com/e/PXsdYF0ZVj ## Provenance This Markdown file is an alternate public rendering of the D3 Tenders contract record. 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