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{{short description|'''UK international-development subsidiary of US-based Tetra Tech, formerly Coffey International Development; CSSF contractor'''}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Tetra Tech International Development
| type = Company registered at Companies House
| founded = 1 July 1999 (incorporated)
| location = Berkshire
| industry = Management consultancy activities other than financial management
| status = Active
}}
'''[[Tetra Tech International Development]]''' (Tetra Tech International Development Limited, Companies House number 03799145) is a contractor to the [[Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office]] (FCDO) under the [[Conflict, Stability and Security Fund]] (CSSF). Companies House records the company as incorporated on 1 July 1999, with status "Active", nature of business "70229 - Management consultancy activities other than financial management".<ref name="CH03799145">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/03799145 TETRA TECH INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT LIMITED (03799145)] ''Companies House'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref><ref name="CHO03799145">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/03799145/officers TETRA TECH INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT LIMITED (03799145): officers] ''Companies House'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref> It is a named supplier on Lot 1 and Lot 3 of the CSSF Framework Agreement 2023–27.<ref name="FTS2023">Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, [https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/029743-2023 Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF) Framework Agreement (2023-2027): contract award notice 029743-2023] ''Find a Tender Service'', 2023.</ref> [[Contracts Finder]] lists 5 published CSSF award(s) to the organisation with a combined stated value of £4,975,047. FCO and FCDO payments to it over £25,000 recorded in published departmental spending data total about £178,223,038; these figures cover all FCO/FCDO (and, after September 2020, former [[Department for International Development]]) programmes and are not limited to the CSSF.<ref name="FCOspend">Foreign and Commonwealth Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/foreign-office-spend-over-25000 FCO departmental spending over £25,000] ''GOV.UK'', 2010–2020; Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fcdo-departmental-spending-over-25000 FCDO: departmental spending over £25,000] ''GOV.UK'', 2020–2026.</ref>

== Overview ==
Tetra Tech International Development Limited was formerly Coffey International Development; it is part of the US-listed [[Tetra Tech]] group, which also acquired the WYG group, whose WYG International B.V. now trades as Tetra Tech International Development BV.<ref name="CHFC034786">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/search/companies?q=WYG+International Search results: WYG International] ''Companies House'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref><ref name="ConsultancyWYG">Consultancy.uk, [https://www.consultancy.uk/news/21840/tetra-tech-buys-technical-consultancy-wyg-for-43-million Tetra Tech buys technical consultancy WYG for £43 million] ''Consultancy.uk'', 2019.</ref>

== CSSF/ISF and other UK government work ==
The [[Independent Commission for Aid Impact]] (ICAI) reviewed the CSSF's aid spending in March 2018 and gave it an amber-red score, finding the fund responsive to [[National Security Council]] priorities but with weak results management and inadequate evidence of outcomes and value for money.<ref name="ICAI2018">Independent Commission for Aid Impact, [https://icai.independent.gov.uk/review/cssf/ The Conflict, Stability and Security Fund's aid spending] ''ICAI'', March 2018.</ref> ICAI published a follow-up review in 2019.<ref name="ICAI2019FU">Independent Commission for Aid Impact, [https://icai.independent.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019-ICAI-Follow-up-CSSF.pdf ICAI follow-up of: The Conflict, Stability and Security Fund's aid spending] ''ICAI'', 2019.</ref>

== Controversies and criticism ==
In March 2022 the [[World Bank]] announced a settlement with Tetra Tech International Development B.V. concerning sanctionable practices on a project in Somalia.<ref name="WBTetra">World Bank, [https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2022/03/02/world-bank-group-announces-settlement-with-tetra-tech-international-development-b-v World Bank Group Announces Settlement with Tetra Tech International Development B.V.] ''World Bank'', 2 March 2022.</ref>

The World Bank said the misconduct took place in Somalia's SCORE project: in 2016 the company did not disclose an agent who was also a subcontractor, or the commissions to be paid to that agent, and in 2017 it entered the subcontract without the client's prior approval. The bank imposed a 15-month conditional non-debarment, reduced in recognition of the company's "significant cooperation", including self-reporting.<ref name="WBTetra" />

''[[The Guardian]]'' reported in September 2021 that Afghans who had worked on UK-sponsored counter-terrorism, security and justice projects for contractors including Coffey International (later Tetra Tech International Development) were in hiding from the Taliban. Some had been refused relocation under the UK's ARAP scheme because they were employed indirectly through contractors.<ref name="GuardianAfghanStaff">The Guardian, [https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/sep/17/they-left-us-to-die-uk-afghan-aid-staff-hiding-from-taliban 'They left us to die': UK's Afghan aid staff in hiding from Taliban] ''The Guardian'', 17 September 2021.</ref>

=== Published CSSF contracts ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ CSSF awards published on Contracts Finder
! Award date !! Contract !! Value (£) !! Supplier name as published !! Source
|-
| 2015-10-22 || DFID 40096075 Institutional Assessment of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Police Forensic Science Laboratory at Peshawar, Pakistan || 89,179 || Coffey International Development Ltd || <ref>Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, [https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/1303377d-28a6-4c5a-9e6b-2c2626bae61b DFID 40096075 Institutional Assessment of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Police Forensic Science Labor] ''Contracts Finder'', 2015-10-22.</ref>
|-
| 2016-11-30 || DFID 7772 Justice Sector Development in Somalia || 710,825 || Coffey International Development Ltd || <ref>Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, [https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/1d430cb2-03ff-4039-999f-755114a3dfae DFID 7772 Justice Sector Development in Somalia] ''Contracts Finder'', 2016-11-30.</ref>
|-
| 2019-06-24 || CSSF: Sri Lanka promote reform and to increase the capability of government agencies and civil society to tackle anti-br || 999,998 || Coffey International Development || <ref>Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, [https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/225091d3-c644-4940-b0e6-5273733ead30 CSSF: Sri Lanka promote reform and to increase the capability of government agencies and c] ''Contracts Finder'', 2019-06-24.</ref>
|-
| 2019-10-30 || CSSF: Senior Leadership Development Programme for Kenya National Police Service || 955,000 || Coffey International Development || <ref>Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, [https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/18a5cf5b-db83-4d2a-98d5-f5e0aa895e79 CSSF: Senior Leadership Development Programme for Kenya National Police Service] ''Contracts Finder'', 2019-10-30.</ref>
|-
| 2023-05-04 || CSSF Maldives Security and Justice Programme || 2,220,045 || Tetra Tech International Development Limited || <ref>Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, [https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/0662e917-dd7a-494e-82f4-92d5f7c6edcc CSSF Maldives Security and Justice Programme] ''Contracts Finder'', 2023-05-04.</ref>
|}

=== FCO/FCDO payments ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ FCO/FCDO payments over £25,000 (all programmes; calendar year of payment)
! Year !! Amount (£)
|-
| 2010 || 787,701
|-
| 2011 || 256,339
|-
| 2013 || 593,419
|-
| 2014 || 1,436,074
|-
| 2015 || 33,570
|-
| 2016 || 951,290
|-
| 2017 || 7,207,455
|-
| 2018 || 11,739,997
|-
| 2019 || 14,236,136
|-
| 2020 || 21,656,813
|-
| 2021 || 37,192,619
|-
| 2022 || 19,193,165
|-
| 2023 || 24,427,778
|-
| 2024 || 36,916,441
|-
| 2025 || 1,594,240
|-
| '''Total''' || '''178,223,038'''
|}
<ref name="FCOspend" />

== People ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Officers recorded at Companies House
! Name !! Role !! Appointed !! Resigned
|-
| [[Andrew Murdoch]] (Andrew James Murdoch) || Secretary || 20 October 2021 || –
|-
| [[Andrew Gillespie]] (Andrew James Gillespie) || Director || 7 July 2026 || –
|-
| [[David Hatch]] (David Craig Hatch) || Director || 7 November 2025 || –
|-
| [[David Joiner]] (David Antony Joiner) || Director || 25 March 2024 || –
|-
| [[Richard Lemmon]] (Richard Alan Lemmon) || Director || 10 February 2017 || –
|-
| [[Ronald Chu]] (Ronald Jeffry Chu) || Secretary || 25 March 2016 || 10 February 2017
|-
| [[Oonagh Dockley]] (Oonagh Thomasina Dockley) || Secretary || 1 June 2011 || 16 August 2012
|-
| [[Preston Hopson]] || Secretary || 1 April 2019 || 5 October 2023
|-
| [[Julie Lee]] (Julie Anne Lee) || Secretary || 15 February 2012 || 1 March 2012
|-
| [[Richard Lemmon]] (Richard Alan Lemmon) || Secretary || 10 February 2017 || 31 March 2019
|-
| [[Jeffrey Pudney]] (Jeffrey John Pudney) || Secretary || 9 June 2006 || 28 January 2011
|-
| [[Ranjan Rajagopal]] || Secretary || 27 April 2015 || 26 February 2016
|-
| [[Jeremy Swainson]] (Jeremy John Swainson) || Secretary || 14 July 1999 || 9 June 2006
|-
| [[Jennifer Waldegrave]] (Jennifer Ann Waldegrave) || Secretary || 28 January 2011 || 28 January 2011
|-
| [[Jennifer Waldegrave]] (Jennifer Ann Waldegrave) || Secretary || 28 January 2011 || 18 January 2016
|-
| Waterlow Secretaries Limited || Nominee Secretary || 1 July 1999 || 14 July 1999
|-
| [[Danny Batrack]] (Danny Lee Batrack) || Director || 25 March 2016 || 10 February 2017
|-
| [[Frederick Bennett]] (Frederick James Bennett) || Director || 13 February 2009 || 22 December 2010
|-
| [[Frederick Bennett]] (Frederick James Bennett) || Director || 14 July 1999 || 3 March 2006
|-
| [[David Black]] (David Christopher Black) || Director || 11 August 2014 || 10 February 2017
|-
| [[Ronald Chu]] (Ronald Jeffry Chu) || Director || 25 March 2016 || 10 February 2017
|-
| [[John Douglas]] (John Matheson Douglas) || Director || 1 June 2011 || 18 January 2016
|-
| [[Charles Duff]] (Charles Rowland Duff) || Director || 3 April 2000 || 13 February 2009
|-
| [[Matthew Evans]] (Matthew John Evans) || Director || 1 September 2021 || 7 July 2026
|-
| [[Robert Fitch]] (Robert Neil Fitch) || Director || 21 December 1999 || 6 July 2007
|-
| [[Urs Meyerhans]] (Urs Beat Meyerhans) || Director || 22 December 2010 || 10 February 2017
|-
| [[Roger Olds]] (Roger John Olds) || Director || 22 December 2010 || 23 February 2011
|-
| [[Keith Onslow]] (Keith Martin Onslow) || Director || 13 February 2015 || 17 March 2021
|-
| [[Jeffrey Pudney]] (Jeffrey John Pudney) || Director || 2 August 2007 || 28 January 2011
|-
| [[Glen Simpson]] (Dr Glen Harold Simpson) || Director || 30 November 2011 || 13 February 2015
|-
| [[Glen Simpson]] (Dr Glen Harold Simpson) || Director || 3 March 2006 || 22 December 2010
|-
| [[Robert Simpson]] (Robert Paul Simpson) || Director || 22 October 2010 || 11 August 2014
|-
| [[Jeremy Swainson]] (Jeremy John Swainson) || Director || 21 December 1999 || 3 March 2006
|-
| [[Benjamin Ward]] (Benjamin James Ward) || Director || 10 February 2017 || 22 March 2024
|-
| [[Andrew White]] (Andrew Charles White) || Director || 3 March 2006 || 22 December 2010
|-
| [[Peter Wilson]] (Peter Russell Wilson) || Director || 1 June 2011 || 28 May 2012
|-
| [[Sinead Woodward]] || Director || 13 February 2015 || 10 December 2015
|-
| Waterlow Nominees Limited || Nominee Director || 1 July 1999 || 14 July 1999
|}
<ref name="CHO03799145" />

== See also ==
* [[Conflict, Stability and Security Fund]]
* [[:Category:CSSF Contractors]]

==Notes==
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[[Category:CSSF Contractors]]
[[Category:UK]]

Tetra Tech International Development - Revision history

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