Enhanced Transnational Support Services

{
  "awards": [
    {
      "aboveThreshold": true,
      "contractPeriod": {
        "endDate": "2027-11-19T23:59:59+00:00",
        "maxExtentDate": "2028-11-19T23:59:59+00:00",
        "startDate": "2025-11-20T00:00:00+00:00"
      },
      "documents": [
        {
          "datePublished": "2025-10-10T15:36:28+01:00",
          "description": "Transparency notice on Find a Tender",
          "documentType": "awardNotice",
          "format": "text/html",
          "id": "064272-2025",
          "noticeType": "UK5",
          "url": "https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/064272-2025"
        }
      ],
      "hasRenewal": true,
      "id": "1",
      "items": [
        {
          "additionalClassifications": [
            {
              "description": "Business and management consultancy services",
              "id": "79410000",
              "scheme": "CPV"
            }
          ],
          "id": "1",
          "relatedLot": "1"
        }
      ],
      "mainProcurementCategory": "services",
      "milestones": [
        {
          "dueDate": "2025-11-07T23:59:59+00:00",
          "id": "1",
          "status": "scheduled",
          "type": "futureSignatureDate"
        }
      ],
      "relatedLots": [
        "1"
      ],
      "renewal": {
        "description": "There is an option to extend the contract for a further year, should additional  services be required."
      },
      "status": "pending",
      "suppliers": [
        {
          "id": "GB-PPON-PMGZ-3555-YZNN",
          "name": "Cormack Consultancy Group"
        }
      ],
      "title": "Enhanced Transnational Support Services",
      "value": {
        "amount": 342000.0,
        "amountGross": 410400.0,
        "currency": "GBP"
      }
    }
  ],
  "buyer": {
    "id": "GB-PPON-PTPM-4795-PZBG",
    "name": "Prifysgol Bangor / Bangor University"
  },
  "date": "2025-10-10T15:36:28+01:00",
  "id": "064272-2025",
  "initiationType": "tender",
  "language": "en",
  "ocid": "ocds-h6vhtk-05acfa",
  "parties": [
    {
      "address": {
        "country": "GB",
        "countryName": "United Kingdom",
        "locality": "Bangor",
        "postalCode": "LL57 2TR",
        "region": "UKL12",
        "streetAddress": "Finance Office"
      },
      "contactPoint": {
        "email": "n.h.day@bangor.ac.uk",
        "name": "Nicola Day"
      },
      "details": {
        "classifications": [
          {
            "description": "Public authority - sub-central government",
            "id": "publicAuthoritySubCentralGovernment",
            "scheme": "UK_CA_TYPE"
          },
          {
            "description": "Welsh devolved regulations apply",
            "id": "GB-WLS",
            "scheme": "UK_CA_DEVOLVED_REGULATIONS"
          }
        ],
        "url": "http://www.bangor.ac.uk"
      },
      "id": "GB-PPON-PTPM-4795-PZBG",
      "identifier": {
        "id": "PTPM-4795-PZBG",
        "scheme": "GB-PPON"
      },
      "name": "Prifysgol Bangor / Bangor University",
      "roles": [
        "buyer"
      ]
    },
    {
      "address": {
        "country": "GB",
        "countryName": "United Kingdom",
        "locality": "Peebles",
        "postalCode": "EH45 9LG",
        "region": "UKM91",
        "streetAddress": "14 Fawnburn Crescent, Cardrona"
      },
      "contactPoint": {
        "email": "enquiries@consultcormack.com"
      },
      "details": {
        "scale": "sme",
        "vcse": false
      },
      "id": "GB-PPON-PMGZ-3555-YZNN",
      "identifier": {
        "id": "PMGZ-3555-YZNN",
        "scheme": "GB-PPON"
      },
      "name": "Cormack Consultancy Group",
      "roles": [
        "supplier"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "tag": [
    "award",
    "contract"
  ],
  "tender": {
    "description": "Bangor University recognises the imperative to strengthen its international partnerships and transnational education portfolio to build greater resilience against sector-wide pressures. The aim is to exploit opportunities to optimise existing partnership frameworks and accelerate pipeline development to maximise strategic value. Bangor University wishes to appoint a suitable consultancy to conduct a comprehensive review of international operations and implement best-practice approaches to partnership management.",
    "documents": [
      {
        "description": "Not published",
        "documentType": "conflictOfInterest",
        "id": "conflictOfInterest"
      }
    ],
    "id": "BU502025",
    "legalBasis": {
      "id": "2023/54",
      "scheme": "UKPGA",
      "uri": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/54/contents"
    },
    "lots": [
      {
        "id": "1",
        "status": "complete",
        "suitability": {
          "sme": true
        }
      }
    ],
    "procurementMethod": "direct",
    "procurementMethodDetails": "Direct award",
    "procurementMethodRationale": "The supplier has extensive experience in the field of developing strategic international partnerships between Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and HEI-adjacent organisations. This includes all phases and aspects of transnational education, from strategic development to partnership development and quality assurance implementation, as well as student mobility programme development and Turing Scheme and Taith funding applications support.\nIt is considered that there is no other supplier in the market who has the specialist knowledge and expertise to provide these services. ",
    "procurementMethodRationaleClassifications": [
      {
        "id": "singleSuppliersTechnicalReasons"
      }
    ],
    "status": "complete",
    "title": "Enhanced Transnational Support Services"
  }
}