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British Red Cross

Procurement of 100,000 x Food Parcels - Syria 2016

Food & BeveragesCPV 15897300 15890000
Value£500k
Awarded28 Mar 2016
Published9 Mar 2016
RegionUK-wide
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£500ktotal contract value
median £286k
this tender£0£8.8m

This sits in the upper-middle of the Food & Beverages band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 2,386 valued Food & Beverages tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The British Red Cross (BRC) helps people in crisis, whoever and wherever they are.

We are part of a global voluntary network, responding to conflicts, natural disasters and individual crises.

We enable vulnerable people in the UK and abroad to prepare for and withstand crises in their owncommunities.

When the crisis is over, we help them to recover and move on with their lives.

The on-going crisis in Syria and its repercussions in surrounding countries is one of the larger operations BRC is presently engaged with, with approximately 15m GBP committed since mid-2011.

Most of this financing is through multilateral emergency appeals managed on behalf of Arab Red Crescent by IFRC, though some support has been provided directly to national societies as well.

The BRC response currently consists of emergency relief material and financial support; National Society capacity building and organisational support; support to the IFRC in coordinating the overall operational response; humanitarian advocacy messaging; and a preparedness to engage in recovery programming as opportunities allow.

BRC is now planning to procure essential items Interested Tenderer(s) fulfilling the eligibility conditions and having the capacity and capability to supply the goods within the time and on the terms and conditions contained within the Invitation to Tender document, that accompanies this Contract Notice, are requested to provide their best and final offer for the supply of goods detailed in full within the Invitation to Tender.

Tenderers are advised to refer to the Invitation to Tender document which contains the full goods specification, delivery information and applicable INCOTERMS and details the Conditions of Contract that shall oversee this contract.

Please note that the Invitation to Tender can be found as an additional document that accompanies this Contract Notice and is downloadable from the mytenders.org site.

Finally, the British Red Cross is a third sector organisation is as such not bound by the EU Public Procurement Directives.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

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Most of this financing is through multilateral

Most of this financing is through multilateral emergency appeals managed on behalf of Arab Red Crescent by IFRC, though some support has been provided directly to national societies as well.

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Tenderers are advised to refer to

Tenderers are advised to refer to the Invitation to Tender document which contains the full goods specification, delivery information and applicable INCOTERMS and details the Conditions of Contract that shall oversee this contract.

Derived from the notice text — always confirm against the original documents.

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Source & provenance
OCID
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Stage
contract · Contract
Source
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Buyer ref
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