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title: "RCDS Strategy Exercise and Contracted Support"
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# RCDS Strategy Exercise and Contracted Support

Buyer: MINISTRY OF DEFENCE  
Current stage: Tender  
OCID: ocds-b5fd17-6407f7b6-adc9-11e6-9901-0019b9f3037b

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## Summary

The Ministry of Defence is currently engaged in a tender process for the "RCDS Strategy Exercise and Contracted Support", which falls under the education and training services industry category. This procurement is taking place in South West, England, with a total value of £253,000. The tender period is set to end on 21st March 2016, leading into a contract period from 1st September 2016 to 31st August 2019. This project involves strategic exercises aimed at enhancing the skills of Members, who are predominantly from military backgrounds, in strategic analysis and formulation.

This tender presents significant opportunities for businesses specializing in education and training services, particularly those with experience in strategic analysis, crisis management, and geopolitical studies. Companies capable of delivering complex, interactive educational exercises that cater to high-ranking military or governmental figures would be particularly well-suited to compete. The selective procurement method indicates a focus on quality and capability, emphasising the need for businesses to demonstrate a track record of successful delivery in similar contexts.

## Notice

The Royal College of Defence Studies (RCDS) is an eleven month post graduate course in international strategic studies, focused upon security, stability and prosperity at the grand strategic level of governmental decisions both nationally and within the international community. The Members (as students are called), predominantly but not only from military backgrounds, are selected for their potential to reach the highest ranks of senior leadership and advisory posts in their own countries. As part of the core syllabus the RCDS runs two Strategic Exercises exposing its Members to the complexity of strategic analysis and formulation in two stages, enhancing their understanding of the requirements of strategy-making and developing their skills of strategic analysis and policy formulation. The requirement is to provide 2 separate but inter-linked exercises designed to exploit the Members' understanding of the international system, focusing upon but not limited to the themes of international security, stability and prosperity. The exercises should be challenging and stimulating, demanding an examination of major geopolitical issues, regionally and globally in the near term, and provide the opportunity for the Members to engage in realistic and thorough strategic analysis and formulation and for their outputs to be tested in a realistic and developmental fashion. In both exercises the Members have to demonstrate an understanding of and ability in: strategic analysis and formulation; decision making in a complex, dynamic near-real-time environment; communicating with and influencing other actors; developing and communicating a strategic narrative; operating imaginatively and persuasively under stressful, real-life conditions The exercises are, in effect, mutually supporting in that they lead the Members, in sequence, through the business of strategic analysis and formulation before testing these against plausible real-world disruptive crisis management catalysts. The essential differences between the two exercises are that the first, Strategy Exercise 1 is a mentor led teaching evolution with a national strategy focus and sequential catalysts providing an initial deliberate and procedural approach to the principles and art of strategy-making. It should provide a coherent thread which can then be further developed throughout the remainder of the course and tested in the second evolution. Strategy Exercise 2 is a more complex and dynamic member led undertaking requiring a global grand strategy focus with catalysts played concurrently after being introduced. The Exercises and immediate preparation will take place at RCDS, Seaford House, London SW1X 8NS and the filming will take place there, or at the Defence Academy, Shrivenham or RAF Halton.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Contracts Finder |
| Latest notice | https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/bbe86635-b95b-4850-a132-f319b4a3dc4d |
| Notice type | Tender Notice |
| Procurement type | Standard |
| Procurement category | Services |
| Procurement method | Selective |
| Procurement method details | Restricted procedure |
| Tender suitability | Not specified |
| Awardee scale | Not specified |
| All stages | Tender |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 18 Nov 2016 |
| Submission deadline | 21 Mar 2016 |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | Not specified |
| Contract period | 31 Aug 2016 - 31 Aug 2019 |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | £253,000 |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | Not specified |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Active |
| Lots status | Not specified |
| Awards status | Not specified |
| Contracts status | Not specified |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | MINISTRY OF DEFENCE |
| Locality | GLASGOW |
| Post town | Glasgow |
| Postcode | G2 8EX |
| Country | Scotland |
| ITL 1 | TLM Scotland |
| ITL 2 | TLM3 West Central Scotland |
| ITL 3 | TLM32 Glasgow City |
| Local authority | Glasgow City |
| Electoral ward | Anderston/City/Yorkhill |
| Westminster constituency | Glasgow North |
| Delivery location | TLK South West (England) |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 80 - Education and training services

### Codes

- 80000000 - Education and training services

## Release History

- 18 Nov 2016 at 20:17 - Tender - Tender Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/bbe86635-b95b-4850-a132-f319b4a3dc4d

## Documents

- https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/bbe86635-b95b-4850-a132-f319b4a3dc4d
  4th March 2016 - Opportunity notice on Contracts Finder

## Provenance

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