National arrangements for 'Business Management Consultancy' are expected to go "live" in early Q2 2010.
Pre-Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ)
Invitation to Tender (ITT)
Contract Notices
Intention to Participate
Supplier Events
Strategy Development
Pre-Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ)
- Submissions were received from 197 firms across the frameworks and risk-based lots.
- This resulted in 1106 individual bids.
- From the 197 PQQs, 27 consortia bids were received, of which 17 have progressed to the Invitation to Tender (ITT) stage.
- Twenty two sub-contracting bids were received, of which 14 are progressing to the ITT stage.
- From a total of 87 firms progressing to the ITT stage, 48 firms name SMEs as their primary or lead bidder.
- PQQ results have been issued to all bidders.
- Although the deadline for the submission of PQQ's has now passed, there remain opportunities for companies to participate in the exercise and in any future business that will be directed towards the agreements.
Invitation to Tender (ITT)
The following document contains a list of all those firms that are progressing to the ITT stage. Short-listed suppliers may be approached to discuss sub-contracting possibilities in the run-up to the full tender stage. If you wish to explore the possibility of working in partnership with any of the firms listed, please contact them directly:
Please review: Firms Progressing to the ITT - for Procurement Scotland's Business Management Consultancy Tender Exercise.
On completion of the full tender process, the details of contracted suppliers will be made available on Procurement Scotland's website in order that potential associate firms may contact the contracted suppliers.
Contract Notices
For the Business Management Consultancy framework, five contract notices (tender adverts) were published on the Public Contracts Scotland website, which are as follows:
Intention to Participate
In order to plan the implementation and roll-out of the business management consultancy agreements Procurement Scotland require "Intention to Participate" completed documents from each organisation that will utilise the agreements:
Please use: Intention to Participate - covering note and template letter.
Completed letters should be returned to: suzanne.reid@scotland.gsi.gov.uk ,
or Procurement Scotland, Meridian Court (2nd Floor), Cadogan Street, Glasgow, G2 6AT.
Supplier Events
As part of our market engagement process, a Prior Information Notice (PIN) was issued, and a 'Business Management Consultancy and Related Services' supplier day was held with over seventy suppliers represented. Please review:
Strategy Development
The commodity plan has been reviewed by stakeholders during extensive work shopping, and in the light of user surveys. The commodity strategy has been endorsed by the National Category Forum.
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