Award

Support to the Establishment of Public Financial Management Systems in the Emerging Federal States of Somalia.

  • FOREIGN, COMMONWEALTH & DEVELOPMENT OFFICE

F15: Voluntary ex ante transparency notice

Notice identifier: 2021/S 000-008088

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-02a709

Published 16 April 2021, 3:44pm



Section one: Contracting authority/entity

one.1) Name and addresses

FOREIGN, COMMONWEALTH & DEVELOPMENT OFFICE

Abercrombie House, Eaglesham Road

East Kilbride

G75 8EA

Contact

Milena Bandere

Email

milena.bandere@fcdo.gov.uk

Country

United Kingdom

NUTS code

UKM95 - South Lanarkshire

Internet address(es)

Main address

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

Buyer's address

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

one.4) Type of the contracting authority

Ministry or any other national or federal authority

one.5) Main activity

Other activity

International Development


Section two: Object

two.1) Scope of the procurement

two.1.1) Title

Support to the Establishment of Public Financial Management Systems in the Emerging Federal States of Somalia.

Reference number

7440

two.1.2) Main CPV code

  • 79412000 - Financial management consultancy services

two.1.3) Type of contract

Services

two.1.4) Short description

This is a 10.5 month extension (until 31 March 2022) to the Support to the Establishment of Public Financial Management Systems in the Emerging Federal States of Somalia Programme that will continue to deliver technical advice, training, grant management and IT systems support to help establish and consolidate public financial management systems in the emerging Federal States of Somalia.

two.1.6) Information about lots

This contract is divided into lots: No

two.1.7) Total value of the procurement (excluding VAT)

Value excluding VAT: £16,665,884.33

two.2) Description

two.2.3) Place of performance

NUTS codes
  • UKM95 - South Lanarkshire

two.2.4) Description of the procurement

Contract Amendment 6 - This further 10.5 month extension until 31 March 2022 will enable FCDO to continue to lay the foundations for a public resource management system in Somalia that will enable the provision of core state functions. This will be the final contract amendment and no further extensions will be permitted.

two.2.5) Award criteria

Price

two.2.11) Information about options

Options: No

two.2.14) Additional information

Contract Amendment 1 - was issued to reflect on the changes of personnel and split of day rates. Also to reflect the reduced financial limit from 13,890,924.00 GBP down to £13,766,953.99 due to a reduction in personnel and the addition of Programme expenses

Contract Amendment 2 - was issued to reflect on the changes in key personnel, defining milestones, up-date of Terms and Conditions with the October 2017 version and a budget realignment with no change to the overall financial limit.

Contract Amendment 3 - was issued to reflect on the changes in key personnel and milestones with no increase to the financial limit.

Contract Amendment 4- was issued to reflect on the changes in key personnel, defining of Year 3 milestones, and a budget realignment with no change to the overall financial limit

Contract Amendment 5 - extended the end date of the contract to 10 May 2021 and added 3,222,582.59 GBP to the financial limit bringing the contract financial limit to £16,989,536.53.


Section four. Procedure

four.1) Description

four.1.1) Type of procedure

Award of a contract without prior publication of a call for competition in the cases listed below

  • The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the regulations

Explanation:

The Public Resource Management in Somalia (PREMIS) Programme (2016-2022) has continued to support the development of public financial management and domestic revenue mobilisation at various levels (Federal Government of Somalia, Federal Member States of Somalia and in Somaliland). The Programme aims to lay the foundations for a public resource management system in Somalia that will enable the provision of core state functions. The Programme has four components, and support to Establishment of Public Financial Management System in the Federal States of Somalia is one of these.

This contract was originally issued in November 2016 for a period of 42 months. A 12 month extension was agreed until May 2021 in May 2020. FCDO now intends to issue a further 10.5 month extension until 31 March 2022. The primary objective of this time extension is to allow critical work on Public Financial Management in the Federal Member States (especially to support Somalia manage the impact of COVID-19) to continue and enable the full achievements of Programme outputs. This extension will be delivered within a reduced overall contract budget. Unspent funds within the current contract ceiling will be used to finance this time extension.

The extension will seek to:

(i) Continue to support Somalia to manage the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis, deliver work which was delayed given the disruption of COVID-19 in 2020, and enable Somalia to stay on track in the debt relief process (under the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative), which the UK champions.

(ii) Allow sufficient time to design and mobilise the successor Programme with minimal or no gap between the two Programmes.

(iii) Align this contract end date with the overall Programme end date and provide time for the full delivery of outcomes, given the disruption of 2020. The Programme end date was amended to allow more implementation time to minimise impacts which may be experienced as a result of implementation gap between the current and the successor Programme.

(iv) The amendment will reduce the contract ceiling from 16,989,544.85 GBP to 16,665,884.33 GBP

four.1.8) Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)

The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: Yes

four.2) Administrative information

four.2.1) Previous publication concerning this procedure

Notice number: 2017/S 077-149947


Section five. Award of contract/concession

Contract No

7440

Title

Support to the Establishment of Public Financial Management Systems in the Emerging Federal States of Somalia.

A contract/lot is awarded: Yes

five.2) Award of contract/concession

five.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract

17 November 2016

five.2.2) Information about tenders

The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators: No

five.2.3) Name and address of the contractor/concessionaire

Adam Smith International Ltd

240 Blackfriars Road

London

SE1 8NW

Country

United Kingdom

NUTS code
  • UKI - London
The contractor/concessionaire is an SME

No

five.2.4) Information on value of contract/lot/concession (excluding VAT)

Initial estimated total value of the contract/lot/concession: £14,000,000

Total value of the contract/lot/concession: £13,890,924


Section six. Complementary information

six.4) Procedures for review

six.4.1) Review body

Procurement & Commercial Department, Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office

East Kilbride

G75 8EA

Country

United Kingdom