--- title: "Provision of Specialist support to deliver Decision Advantage Pilot for the Multi-Domain Integration Change Programme (Culture, Behaviours and Mindset)" ocid: "ocds-b5fd17-720217b9-892f-4f67-8a23-6e598d553d31" canonical_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-b5fd17-720217b9-892f-4f67-8a23-6e598d553d31" markdown_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-720217b9-892f-4f67-8a23-6e598d553d31.md" json_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-720217b9-892f-4f67-8a23-6e598d553d31.json" source: "Contracts Finder" current_stage: "Planning" buyer: "MINISTRY OF DEFENCE" published: "2022-11-23" --- # Provision of Specialist support to deliver Decision Advantage Pilot for the Multi-Domain Integration Change Programme (Culture, Behaviours and Mindset) Buyer: MINISTRY OF DEFENCE Current stage: Planning OCID: ocds-b5fd17-720217b9-892f-4f67-8a23-6e598d553d31 [View canonical contract page](https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-b5fd17-720217b9-892f-4f67-8a23-6e598d553d31) [Download OCDS JSON](https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-720217b9-892f-4f67-8a23-6e598d553d31.json) ## Summary The Ministry of Defence is planning a procurement process titled "Provision of Specialist support to deliver Decision Advantage Pilot for the Multi-Domain Integration Change Programme (Culture, Behaviours and Mindset)". This procurement falls under the industry category of Training software package. The buying organisation is based in Lichfield, England. The procurement stage is currently in the planning phase with an engagement end date set for 28th November 2022. This tender offers opportunities for businesses in the personnel-training services, staff training services, training programme services, training seminars, and personal development training services sectors. It requires Suitably Qualified Experienced Personnel to deliver a cognitive training package focused on developing decision advantage within multi-domain environments. Businesses with experience in working with military personnel, emergency responders, and security professionals in decision-making education and training, both domestically and internationally, are well-suited to compete in this procurement. ## Notice This Request for Information (RFI) is hereby being issued in relation to an upcoming Requirement. The aim is to seek information about where the market stands to better refine our requirement. Contract Duration: 6 Months BACKGROUND The requirement will be issued by Multi Domain Integration Change Programme (MDICP) Ministry of Defence. Joint Concept Note 1/20 (JCN 1/20) sets out four key tenets of Multidomain Integration as the means to protect the United Kingdom and her interests: Information Advantage, Strategic Posture, configured for the Environments, Creating and Exploiting Synergy. One of the critical enablers to achieving this ambition is faster and better operational decision-making in multi-domain and integrated contexts. Strategic Command is responsible for integration of military capability and effects within the Ministry of Defence (MOD). The Multi-Domain Integration Change Programme (MDICP) is responsible for delivering integration through People, Technology, Data and Authorities, creating the strategic and operational advantage envisaged by the Integrated Operating Concept 2025 (IOpC25). REQUIREMENT OVERVIEW The MDICP has experienced considerable success, gaining traction across both Defence and with partners across government. When the programme was initially launched Joint Concept Note 20/1 (JCN 20/1) on MDI had not been published, the IOpC25 had only been published internally the Integrated Review (IR) process had not been completed. Today integration is in the policy and conceptual mainstream, significantly augmented by the ambition of the Integrated Review and the Defence Command Paper. However, the interest and the ambition of the MDICP is steadily increasing, allied to this, the first 12 months of the programme have shed light on the complexity of delivering something that it genuinely new across Defence. Additional information: The MDICP will build upon the 4 key tenets of MDI described within the Joint Concept Note 1/20 to enable a programme design that will be sufficiently resilient to an evolving concept, informed by an ambitious experimentation agenda. Against this wider policy context, we require a team of Suitably Qualified Experienced Personnel (SQEP) to deliver and validate a cognitive training package focussed on developing decision advantage within the Land, Air, Sea, Cyber, and Space domains that will 1. teach better decision-making in Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous (VUCA) multidomain environments. 2. enhance decision-making in multidomain environments without relying on the repetition characterising the military decision-making model and annual exercise cycle (predictable and forecast scenarios); 3. enhance metacognition of decision-making and awareness of decision-making ability amongst our personnel relative to an international database of security professionals; and 4. achieve better understanding of decision-making as a core military skill essential to achieving decision advantage in multidomain environments and decisive advantage in response to operational complexity. This should be achieved through a bespoke education and training package that balances theory and practise, uses an evidence-based and well-validated approach to decision-making and performance amongst emergency responders and security forces and includes immersive scenarios for each domain (Air, Land, Sea, Cyber and Space) using a methodology that can be delivered at scale once proof of concept has been achieved. Experience and demonstrable success working with military personnel, emergency responders and security professionals is essential. There is an expectation that the supplier will have experience in teaching and delivering enhanced decision-making in both an international and domestic context. AUTHORITY QUESTIONS TO SUPPLIERS Please answer the following two questions in 2,000 words or less: 1. Against a wider policy context, describe an approach to delivering a cognitive training package focussed on developing decision advantage within the Land, Air, Sea, Cyber, and Space domains. 2. Describe your experience of where you have worked with military personnel and/or emergency responders and/or security professionals to provide education and training in enhanced decision-making in an international and/or domestic context. Please respond to this RFI by contacting joanna.chirwa100@mod.gov.uk Your response is required by 24th November 2022 and will be treated with confidentiality. Answers will not be shared with any of the other supplier. Please note, this is market scoping only, not a competition. This RFI DOES NOT commit the Authority to initiate the official procurement process. ## Key Details | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication source | Contracts Finder | | Latest notice | https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/b02d75f3-c89c-474e-addf-0a4dc44163e9 | | Notice type | Market Engagement Notice | | Procurement type | Standard | | Procurement category | Not specified | | Procurement method | Not Specified | | Procurement method details | Not specified | | Tender suitability | SME | | Awardee scale | Not specified | | All stages | Planning | ## Dates | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication date | 23 Nov 2022 | | Submission deadline | Not specified | | Future notice date | 28 Nov 2022 | | 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 | MINISTRY OF DEFENCE | | Locality | LICHFIELD | | Post town | Walsall | | Postcode | WS14 9PY | | Country | England | | ITL 1 | TLG West Midlands (England) | | ITL 2 | TLG2 Shropshire and Staffordshire | | ITL 3 | TLG24 Staffordshire CC | | Local authority | Lichfield | | Electoral ward | Whittington & Streethay | | Westminster constituency | Tamworth | | Delivery location | Not specified | ## CPV Codes ### Divisions - 48 - Software package and information systems - 79 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security - 80 - Education and training services ### Codes - 48931000 - Training software package - 79632000 - Personnel-training services - 80511000 - Staff training services - 80521000 - Training programme services - 80522000 - Training seminars - 80570000 - Personal development training services ## Release History - 23 Nov 2022 at 16:21 - Planning - Market Engagement Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/b02d75f3-c89c-474e-addf-0a4dc44163e9 - 10 Nov 2022 at 12:13 - Planning - Market Engagement Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/b4358bfa-610d-4485-9b25-1ca5bbc7d2e6 ## Documents - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/b02d75f3-c89c-474e-addf-0a4dc44163e9 23rd November 2022 - Early engagement notice on Contracts Finder - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/b4358bfa-610d-4485-9b25-1ca5bbc7d2e6 10th November 2022 - Early engagement notice on Contracts Finder ## Provenance This Markdown file is an alternate public rendering of the D3 Tenders contract record. 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