Digital Training and Support
Framework Supplier
Clarification Event
8th December 2015
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Clive Richardson
Head of assisted digital
Government Digital Service
@cliverchrdsn
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Welcome & housekeeping
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This session is being recorded, to
allow us to capture questions and
answers, and publish them
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Today is about letting you have a
conversation with us
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We held industry engagement events
in August and September 2015
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We learned about current market
capabilities
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We learned about what would make it
easier for suppliers to bid
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We learned what would and wouldn’t
work on payments, and reporting
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We had planned to have two Lots -
there are now five
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We had planned to iterate the
framework every 12-18 months - we
now plan to do so every 24 months
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Sonia Diosee
Commissioning Manager
Government Digital Service
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We have published the
Invitation to Tender documents
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1) Supplier Declaration
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2) Requirements
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3) Commercial Rates
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4) Declaration of Compliance
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Timetable
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28 December 2015:
Clarification period ends
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6 January 2016:
Deadline for responding to
clarification questions
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18 January 2016:
Suppliers submit bids
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January-February 2016:
Suppliers’ bids evaluated
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March 2016:
Issue Intention to Award
notification to suppliers
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March 2016:
10 day standstill period
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From April 2016:
Buyers run mini-competitions or
single tender actions against
suppliers on the framework
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Over to you for questions
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We will be publishing the
outputs of today’s session
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Thank you!
GDSClive Richardson
Digital Training and Support
Framework
Supplier Clarification Event
GDS

Supplier clarification event 8th December 2015

Editor's Notes

  • #3 *
  • #6 anything we can’t answer today, we’ll take away
  • #7 In London and Edinburgh
  • #8 Understand the demographics of geographical delivery Learning Supplier capabilities, this led us to making the Lots wider Learnt about commercial delivery models - fixed price, time and materials, schedule of rates
  • #9 Making the forms simpler Easy to complete Technical scope This enabled us to shape our Invitation to Tender overall
  • #10 Allowed us to break the commercial elements
  • #11 Changed this from the Supplier Industry Engagement event - i.e feedback Lot 1 - Assisted Digital Services: support to use government digital services (end-to-end or discrete components) Lot 2 - Digital Inclusion: digital inclusion research and analysis; Lot 3 - Digital Inclusion: the design course intervention or product; Lot 4 - Digital Inclusion: the delivery of basic digital skills/ digital inclusion training; Lot 5 - Digital Inclusion:and/or marketing and and promotion;
  • #13 *
  • #14 On 19th November 2015
  • #19 Overview of Timetable 28th December 2015 - Clarification period ends. 6th January 2016 - Deadline for responding to clarification questions 18 January 2016 - The deadline for Suppliers to submit bids January-February 2016 - All Suppliers’ bids will be evaluated March 2016 - Issue Intention to Award notification to suppliers March 2016 - There will be a 10 day standstill period From April 2016 - Buyers can run mini-competitions or single tender actions against suppliers on the framework
  • #28 We will be publishing the outputs of today’s session on the e-Sourcing portal If you have any further questions they should be directed through the e-sourcing portal.