--- title: "UK Economic Development Portfolio in Pakistan: Federal Reforms for Growth; Provincial Reforms for Growth (PRG)" ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-059cee" canonical_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-h6vhtk-059cee" markdown_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-059cee.md" json_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-059cee.json" source: "Find A Tender Service" current_stage: "Planning" buyer: "FOREIGN, COMMONWEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT OFFICE" published: "2025-09-18" --- # UK Economic Development Portfolio in Pakistan: Federal Reforms for Growth; Provincial Reforms for Growth (PRG) Buyer: FOREIGN, COMMONWEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT OFFICE Current stage: Planning OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-059cee [View canonical contract page](https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-h6vhtk-059cee) [Download OCDS JSON](https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-059cee.json) ## Summary The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) is currently in the planning stage for a significant procurement opportunity titled "UK Economic Development Portfolio in Pakistan: Federal Reforms for Growth; Provincial Reforms for Growth (PRG)." This initiative focuses on foreign economic-aid-related services, primarily aimed at enhancing the trade and investment partnership between the UK and Pakistan. Headquartered in London, the FCDO is engaging in preliminary market engagement, including an Early Market Engagement (EME) event scheduled for 6th October 2025. This project is categorised under the services industry and is set in various regions of Pakistan including Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab, and Sindh, with the main procurement category being services. The tender involves three key programmes with substantial budgets, commencing February 2026 and stretching over approximately seven years. This procurement initiative offers ample growth opportunities for businesses specialising in international development, economic policy reforms, and market systems approaches. Companies with expertise in providing technical assistance, particularly within fiscal policy, private sector development, and investment strategies, will find themselves well-placed to respond to this tender. Large firms that can deliver comprehensive support to provincial governments and private stakeholders in Pakistan are particularly suited for this opportunity. The FCDO's focus on agile technical assistance and high growth sector development ensures a dynamic and potentially profitable environment for businesses aiming to expand their international portfolios. ## Notice One of the UK's key goals in Pakistan is that the UK benefits from an enhanced trade and investment partnership with Pakistan, driven by business deals and partnerships, a better and more stable business environment, and an improved growth trajectory which makes Pakistan a significant market of the future. To support this goal, and to meet the UK's ambitions to tackle poverty in Pakistan through Official Development Assistance, the British High Commission in Islamabad is planning FCDO's future ODA portfolio on economy and trade in Pakistan. Subject to Ministerial approvals and internal quality assurance processes, our intention is that this portfolio will comprise the following three programmes: a. Federal Reforms for Growth ('FRG') - a five-to-seven-year successor programme to the Revenue Mobilisation, Investment and Trade programme. This will provide agile technical assistance to federal government ministries, regulatory bodies and autonomous bodies. FRG will drive reforms to promote growth through improved fiscal policies (taxation, expenditure, wider PFM) and private sector environment reforms (sectoral approaches and cross-cutting trade and investment policies). The approximate maximum budget for the contract will be PS35 million. b. Provincial Reforms for Growth ('PRG') - a five-to-seven-year successor programme to the Sub-National Governance II and Sustainable Energy and Economic Development programmes. This will provide agile technical assistance to the provincial government departments, regulatory bodies and autonomous bodies, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab and Sindh provinces. PRG will drive reforms to promote growth through improved fiscal policies (taxation, expenditure, wider PFM) and private sector environment reforms (sectoral approaches and cross-cutting trade and investment policies). The approximate maximum budget for the contract will be PS35 million. c. Jobs and Economic Transformation for Pakistan ('JETPAK') - a seven-year private sector development programme in Pakistan. JETPAK will aim to drive economic transformation in Pakistan by using a market systems approach to increase productivity, investment and value add exports in 3-4 high growth sectors. The contract would require the supplier to provide expertise to secondary market providers (banks, skills providers, industry associations etc), and direct TA and grants to medium- large firms. The programme will be mainly RDEL with a CDEL component. The approximate maximum budget for the contract will be PS90 million. ### Planning Information Interested suppliers are invited to participate in an Early Market Engagement (EME) event on Monday, 6th October, from 12:00 to 13:00 BST / 16:00 to 17:00 Pakistan Time. Please follow this link for registration details: https://forms.office.com/e/GdU8dLsmJ7 ## Key Details | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication source | Find A Tender Service | | Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/057630-2025 | | Notice type | UK2 - Preliminary Market Engagement Notice | | Procurement type | Standard | | Procurement category | Services | | Procurement method | Not Specified | | Procurement method details | Not specified | | Tender suitability | Not specified | | Awardee scale | Not specified | | All stages | Planning | ## Dates | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication date | 18 Sep 2025 | | Submission deadline | Not specified | | Future notice date | 6 Oct 2025 | | Award date | Not specified | | Contract period | 2 Feb 2026 - 1 Apr 2033 | | 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 | Planning | | 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 - 18 Sep 2025 at 10:24 - Planning - UK2 - Preliminary Market Engagement Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/057630-2025 ## Documents - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/057630-2025 18th September 2025 - Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender ## Notice URLs - https://forms.office.com/e/GdU8dLsmJ7 - https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/foreign-commonwealth-development-office - https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/54/contents ## Provenance This Markdown file is an alternate public rendering of the D3 Tenders contract record. 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