Planning

Political Economy Analysis Facility for the Ukraine Governance Reform Programme

  • Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office

F01: Prior information notice (prior information only)

Notice identifier: 2024/S 000-025002

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-0488d5

Published 8 August 2024, 11:40am



Section one: Contracting authority

one.1) Name and addresses

Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office

King Charles Street

London

SW1A 2AH

Contact

Andrew Sternberg

Email

andrew.sternberg@fcdo.gov.uk

Telephone

+44 2070080932

Country

United Kingdom

Region code

UK - United Kingdom

Internet address(es)

Main address

https://fcdo.gov.uk

one.3) Communication

Additional information can be obtained from the above-mentioned address

one.4) Type of the contracting authority

Ministry or any other national or federal authority

one.5) Main activity

General public services


Section two: Object

two.1) Scope of the procurement

two.1.1) Title

Political Economy Analysis Facility for the Ukraine Governance Reform Programme

two.1.2) Main CPV code

  • 75211200 - Foreign economic-aid-related services

two.1.3) Type of contract

Services

two.1.4) Short description

British Embassy Kyiv is seeking a Political Economy Analysis Provider to provide regular, short- and long-term political economy analyses (PEA), particularly at the sub-national level. This will ensure the UK’s strategy, policy, and programmes are informed and influenced by up-to-date and on-the-ground analysis to drive effectiveness of UK objectives in the complex operating environment of Ukraine.

two.1.5) Estimated total value

Value excluding VAT: £5,000,000

two.1.6) Information about lots

This contract is divided into lots: No

two.2) Description

two.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)

  • 79315000 - Social research services

two.2.3) Place of performance

NUTS codes
  • UA - Ukraine

two.2.4) Description of the procurement

The PEA Facility will sit within the British Embassy Ukraine’s Governance Reform Programme (GRP). GRP is a 3-year programme designed to support Ukraine’s institutional reform through support to anti-corruption, state-owned enterprise reform, rule of law, and digitalisation. It will also home this Political Economy Analyses (PEA) Facility to ensure the FCDO’s activities in Ukraine are underpinned by contextual and thorough PEA. We are looking for a Supplier to: Objective 1: Build understanding of Ukraine’s national and sub-national political economy under wartime conditions and the post-war transition. Objective 2: Build understanding of national and sub-national level political economy incentives and constraints affecting delivery of the UK’s ODA portfolio (focused on: humanitarian, economic recovery and energy, fiscal, social recovery, security and stabilisation, and reform). Objective 3: Generate demand for and deepen HMG and HMG’s partners’ understanding, uptake, and utilisation of political economy research.

two.3) Estimated date of publication of contract notice

20 January 2025


Section four. Procedure

four.1) Description

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

The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: Yes


Section six. Complementary information

six.3) Additional information

FCDO will be hosting an Early Market Engagement event about the planned programme and the anticipated services required from interested parties. We would welcome those with experience in the following areas:

• Conducting Political Economy Analysis and providing expert advice (including identification of entry points) and quality assurance to the FCDO.

• Providing both quick and longer-term analysis in a variety of formats (reports, PowerPoint presentations) with expertise in delivering and facilitation political economy training, workshops and strategic dialogues to ensure that research is taken up and utilised by teams.

Suppliers wishing to register for this EME event will need to register through the attached link https://forms.office.com/e/c6sScj5qUM