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title: "Dialogue Driven Partnerships"
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# Dialogue Driven Partnerships

Buyer: FOREIGN COMMONWEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT OFFICE  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-048713

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## Summary

The Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) has completed a procurement process titled "Dialogue Driven Partnerships" under the industry category of Development Consultancy Services. The contract, valued at £223,665, was awarded on 2nd August 2024. This initiative aims to manage a series of dialogues for the British Embassy Kathmandu (BEK) in Nepal, including the "Horizons" seminar series and Partner Dialogues, with the first events scheduled to commence in September. The procurement process followed a 'limited' method involving a single source direct award, primarily to maintain continuity of the strategically important project after the original supplier's sudden liquidation.

This tender presents significant opportunities for businesses involved in consultancy services, particularly those experienced in managing international development projects and dialogue facilitation. SMEs with capabilities in strategic development, stakeholder engagement, and evidence-based decision-making are well-suited for such contracts. Collaborating with the British Embassy in Nepal offers a platform to demonstrate thought leadership and influence key development strategies, bolstering an organisation's reputation in the sector and potentially leading to further opportunities in international development collaborations.

## Notice

A contract for the management of two sets of dialogues for British Embassy Kathmandu (BEK): 1) The "Horizons" series: The supplier will facilitate a series of seminars. This work will act as a 'soft power' lever, demonstrating the UK as a thought leader by convening relevant stakeholders from Nepal and the international community to deliver cutting edge analysis of topics critical to Nepal's future. Five thematic 'dialogue' events will be hosted every two months by British Embassy Kathmandu, culminating in a two-day workshop). 2) Partner Dialogues: The supplier will facilitate roundtable discussions with Nepal development programme partners to deliver portfolio coherence and collaborative learning and adaptation across portfolio themes at BEK. The Partners Dialogues will be central to 'onboarding' implementing partners and delivering stronger portfolio impacts and greater VFM (identifying what's not working and ensuring the dialogues help solve problems, build consensus on ways of working, and support evidence-based decision making on portfolio priorities).

### Lot Information

Lot 1

Building on BEK's influencing approach, the Horizons dialogues will be used as a direct and practical influencing 'lever' whereby the UK convenes stakeholders to shape and inform debate and develops strategic action in Kathmandu and the provinces. This will foster coherence and collaboration across Development Partners, moving away from a projectivized way of delivering programmes towards more strategic, impact-focused development outcomes across relevant actors, bringing in Government of Nepal representation where suitable. This work will act as a 'soft power' lever, demonstrating the UK as a thought leader by convening relevant stakeholders from Nepal and the international community to deliver cutting edge analysis of topics critical to Nepal's future (in the next 5-10 years). This work will seek to bring in local and often marginalised voices, alongside other relevant stakeholders. One dialogue should be expected to be held in one of BEK's priority provinces (Karnali, Madhesh, Lumbini).

Options: 3 months extension with a possibility to raise the financial limit upto PS250,000 from the original contract value.

### Procurement Information

Single source Direct Award in order to maintain continuity for a project that is strategically and reputationally important to British Embassy Kathmandu (BEK). The first Horizons seminar is scheduled for September but this will not be possible if there is a sustained delay in the preparatory work being carried out by the DDP project. A key objective of the Partner Dialogues is to induct new programme partners into a coherent portfolio way-of-working. There are a number of programmes that are mobilising right now and in the next two months so it is important that the DDP project continues to support this mobilisation. The Single Source rationale is therefore that: A satisfactory proposal, with satisfactory value for money, that avoids conflict of interest risk, has been cut short for reasons that have nothing to do with the viability of the contract or the performance of the delivery team. There is an opportunity to continue with the same proposal, the same delivery team, and the same prices by Direct Award. This would achieve near seamless operational continuity, allowing BEK to deliver the objectives of the Dialogue Driven Partnerships (DDP) project, which are very important to BEK's 'soft power' strategy and their vision for managing their development programmes in a more coherent and effective 'portfolio' manner. The new contract will replicate an original contract that was procured in a robust way using the EACDS2 framework. The framework price caps provided assurance on VFM and the technical proposal was evaluated as the best of two proposals that were submitted. Single Source is permitted under regulation 32 (2)(c), "insofar as is strictly necessary where, for reasons of extreme urgency brought about by events unforeseeable by the contracting authority, the time limits for the open or restricted procedures or competitive procedures with negotiation cannot be complied with." In this case, the unforeseeable event was the liquidation of the original Supplier, which happened very suddenly and did not allow time for an open or restricted procurement to be carried out.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/024269-2024 |
| 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 | SME |
| All stages | Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 2 Aug 2024 |
| Submission deadline | Not specified |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | 1 Aug 2024 |
| Contract period | Not specified |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | Not specified |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | £223,665 |

## Status

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

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | FOREIGN COMMONWEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT OFFICE |
| Locality | GLASGOW |
| Post town | Glasgow |
| Postcode | G75 8EA |
| Country | Scotland |
| ITL 1 | TLM Scotland |
| ITL 2 | TLM9 Southern Scotland |
| ITL 3 | TLM95 South Lanarkshire |
| Local authority | South Lanarkshire |
| Electoral ward | East Kilbride West |
| Westminster constituency | East Kilbride and Strathaven |
| Delivery location | Not specified |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 1 |
| Supplier names | AGULHAS APPLIED KNOWLEDGE |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 73 - Research and development services and related consultancy services

### Codes

- 73220000 - Development consultancy services

## Release History

- 2 Aug 2024 at 10:41 - Award - Award Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/024269-2024

## Notice URLs

- https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/foreign-commonwealth-development-office

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