CSP25292 - Emergency Response, Capabilities and Operations (ERCO) Training and Exercising Contract

DESNZ · awarded 1 April 2026

£1.5m Award value £1,500,000
1 Supplier Recorded as a small or medium-sized business
31 Mar 2027 Runs until from 1 Apr 2026

Who

BuyerDESNZ Swindon
Supplier JOLTS Consulting Limited
Categoryservices
ClassificationTraining services CPV 80500000
Notice published2 April 2026

What it is for

** This is an Award Notice and not a Call for Competition, This Contract has been Awarded Via CCS RM6219 - Learning and Training Services ** DESNZ is the Lead Government Department (LGD) and responsible for planning, preparing, and leading the government's response to crises within two critical national infrastructure sectors (energy and civil nuclear). The Department must ensure that teams maintain a strong understanding of the risks facing their sectors, develop emergency response plans, and continuously build, test, and assure capabilities. In addition, DESNZ also supports cross-government efforts during large-scale incidents such as flooding, severe weather, and pandemics. This work contributes to addressing findings from the COVID-19 Module 1 Report, which highlighted the need for departments to invest more in assurance, emergency preparedness, capability building, and national exercising. DESNZ has a progressive, well-established, and mature emergency response capability and, as a result of working with an external supplier for a number of years, has developed a comprehensive and structured training and exercising programme that continues to ensure the Department's capability to effectively react and respond to crises. The Department are now looking to appoint a supplier to continue this work to design, develop and deliver our comprehensive training and exercising programme to further strengthen DESNZ's emergency response capability. This is in-line the expectations of the Department set out in Chapter 8 of the UK Governments The Amber Book - Managing Crisis in Central Government - GOV.UK. DESNZ runs a well-established training and exercising programme to build and test its emergency response capabilities. The programme covers all audiences at all grades. For…

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