Published date: 5 August 2019

Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.


Closing: 15 July 2019

Contract summary

Industry

  • Research and development services and related consultancy services - 73000000

  • Market and economic research; polling and statistics - 79300000

Location of contract

South West

Value of contract

£0 to £50,000

Procurement reference

UK SBS CR19047

Published date

5 August 2019

Closing date

15 July 2019

Contract start date

29 July 2019

Contract end date

11 October 2019

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (below threshold)

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

This procedure can be used for procurements below the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The final date and time for the submission of bids is Monday 15th July 2019 at 14:00

DO NOT apply directly to the buyer.

All tender information MUST be submitted through the CCS eSourcing Portal.

Brief Description of Requirement;

The focus of this study is to explore methods than may expose the relationships between the uses of HEIF by KE category and the resulting outputs, but at a sufficiently high-level or aggregated basis to provide an appropriate picture for the large-scale English HE sector as a whole, and with proportionate burden.
The study is primarily focussed on causation of impacts by inputs, taking the HE-BCI survey as a main source of evidence on outputs/outcomes/impacts. It is also primarily focussed on larger scale uses of HEIF and activity areas that appear to generate highest ROIs (e.g. measured in HE-BCI income), particularly research exploitation and Continuing Professional Development (CPD). It is not primarily focussed on non-monetised KE i.e. the broader range of activities and impacts that are not presently well described in HE-BCI (e.g. public engagement). This is because there are a range of challenges in identifying value of non-monetised KE work, and other analytical work (to be considered in separate exercises) may be required on these areas.

Please ensure you review all attached information to ensure a full understanding of this requirement. All attachments can be found with the RFx attachments tab within the Emptoris System.

This contract will be awarded based on the evaluation criteria set out in the ITQ document.

How to Apply

As part of the strategic alliance between UK Shared Business Services Ltd (UK SBS) and Crown Commercial Service (CCS), UK SBS will be using the CCS eSourcing Suite for this procurement.

To register on the CCS eSourcing portal please follow the details contained within the Additional Information section of this notice.

If you are already registered on the CCS eSourcing portal and wish to register your interest in this opportunity please email; expressionofinterest@crowncommercial.gov.uk

Your email must clearly state:
• the name and reference for the procurement you wish to register for;
• the name of the registered Bidder;
• the name and contact details for the registered individual sending the email.

Please disregard any content in this notice that requests your organisation "to apply directly to the buyer" as this unfortunately a system generated error, that is outside of the Contracting Authorities control.

More information

Previous notice about this procurement

UK SBS CR19047 Knowledge exchange funding: Novel Evaluation Methods

  • Opportunity
  • Published 1 July 2019

Attachments

Links

Additional text

DO NOT APPLY DIRECTLY TO BUYER

All submissions will be assessed in accordance with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015, for procurement values that exceed Regulation 5 (Threshold amounts)

Responses must be received by the date in the tender documentation; responses received outside of the deadline or not sent via the eSourcing portal will not be accepted or considered further for this opportunity.

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• name of the registered Bidder;
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About UK Shared Business Services

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Where UK SBS is not named as the Contracting Authority within the documentation, UK SBS will be acting as an agent on behalf of the Contracting Authority.

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Award information

Awarded date

26 July 2019

Contract start date

29 July 2019

Contract end date

11 October 2019

Total value of contract

£49,978.50

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

SQW LIMITED

Address

First Floor
LONDON
NW1 1JD
GB

Reference

Companies House number: 01701564

Value of contract

£49,978.50

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Contact name

Declan Ward

Address

Polaris House
SWINDON
SN21FF
England

Telephone

01793 867005

Email

Research@uksbs.co.uk

Website

www.uksbs.co.uk