Lot 4: Finance

Agreement name: Management Consultancy Framework Three (MCF3)

Agreement ID: RM6187

Lot 4 expiry date: 23 August 2025

Description

Provision of objective strategic and operational financial advice. This may include identification of options with recommendations as well as implementation and delivery.

  • Actuarial services
  • Asset management including valuation, sales and disposals
  • Business analysis
  • Capital fundraising, derivatives and hedging
  • Cash management
  • Corporate restructuring and flotation
  • Cost benefit reviews, studies, analysis and evaluation
  • Debt restructuring, management and insolvency
  • Developing and assessing project proposals
  • Financial due diligence
  • Economic analysis
  • Financial accounting and/or reporting
  • Financial performance review and viability studies
  • Financing public infrastructure projects and negotiations
  • Forecasting and budgeting
  • Foreign exchange
  • Investment, financial advice and market services
  • Mergers, acquisitions and divestment
  • Payment structure advice and risk
  • Pensions services
  • Policy impact assessments
  • Regulation and statutory requirements and/or reporting
  • Risk management
  • Tax including value added tax (VAT)

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To use this service you will need to sign in to, or create an account for, the Public Procurement Gateway.

The Public Procurement Gateway helps you to access the different procurement services available to the public sector.

Before you start

Decide the approach and stages to your procurement. These may include:

  • Request for Information (RfI) Gather information for your project from suppliers about the products and services they offer, and the commercial terms needed to buy them.
  • Expression of Interest (EoI) Find out if suppliers are interested in bidding for your project and can offer the products or services neededthis is used to find out if a supplier is interested in providing the products or services needed.
  • Further competition You will need to invite all suppliers to bid for your opportunity and assess all bids that are submitted. This is also known as one-stage further competition, this is used to ask key questions of suppliers with a view to identifying a smaller number of suppliers
  • Direct award Based on the supplier responses you receive, if you find a single supplier who can meet your needs you can choose to award your contract directly to them after completing a capability assessement.

To buy from this lot you will need to follow the steps below:

  1. See the available suppliers

    See all available suppliers or create a shortlist of those most suitable. Every supplier is checked to make sure they can supply the products or services offered by the commercial agreement.

  2. Do pre-market engagement

    You can ask suppliers questions, before formally publishing your requirements, to find out what products and services are available, or refine your needs.

    Expression of Interest (EoI)

    Find out if suppliers are interested in bidding for your project, and can offer the products or services needed. If a supplier does not respond to an EoI sent from the buyer, they cannot bid for the opportunity later.

    Request for Information (RfI)

    Gather information for your project from suppliers about the products and services they offer, and the commercial terms needed to buy them.

  3. Write and publish your requirements

    Write and publish your bid-pack for suppliers, who can then submit their responses to your requirements and complete any other evaluation tasks set by you.

    You will need a clear set of criteria that suppliers will need to meet, and be evaluated against. You will also need to include how you will score their responses.

    For the lot you selected, you can run your procurement in one of the following ways:

    Further competition

    You will need to invite all suppliers to bid for your opportunity and assess all bids that are submitted. This is also known as one-stage further competition

    Direct award

    Based on the supplier responses you receive, if you find a single supplier who can meet your needs you can choose to award your contract directly to them after completing a capability assessement.

  4. Do evaluation

    You must evaluate suppliers to find the one that best meets your requirements.

    You should use the methods and criteria you published with your requirements to assess and score suppliers.

    You can then award a contract to your preferred supplier.

  5. Award the contract

    When you have completed your evaluation and found a suitable supplier, you can award your contract. You will need to give feedback to any unsuccessful suppliers.

  6. Publish your contract

    You need to publish the contract on Contracts Finder. This is a legal requirement.

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