How to win: COBR Strategic Partnership (Private Sector Resilience Project)

About this contract

The purpose of this Prior Information Notice (PIN) is to notify all interested parties of the Cabinet Office's intention to undertake a commercial procurement exercise. The exercise aims to appoint a world-class Strategic Partner to provide a managed service. The Cabinet Office Briefing Rooms (COBR) Directorate requires a world-class strategic partner to co-design and co-deliver high-impact, targeted resilience workshops, scenario exercises, and potential follow-on consultancy to UK and international private sector clients. The primary objective is to operationalise resilience within the private sector by translating central government crisis doctrine and leadership expertise into actionable strategies for C-suite executives and operational leads, aligned with existing industry practice. COBR serves as the central hub for the UK Government's whole-of-government crisis response mechanism. National resilience is a whole-of-society endeavour. This partnership seeks to support business and organisational resilience by establishing a scalable framework for clients to adopt UK-standard crisis doctrine while creating a formal feedback loop where private sector insights directly inform

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