Published date: 17 January 2017

Last edited date: 17 January 2017

Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.


Closing: 20 January 2017

Contract summary

Industry

  • Evaluation consultancy services - 79419000

Location of contract

North East, North West, Yorkshire and the Humber, East Midlands, West Midlands, East of England, London, South East, South West

Value of contract

£1,000,000

Procurement reference

BIG001-0766

Published date

17 January 2017

Closing date

20 January 2017

Contract start date

27 February 2017

Contract end date

26 November 2021

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure

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

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

The Big Lottery Fund is seeking to appoint a service provider to facilitate and deliver support to and across the successful youth organisations to optimise the learning from the investment and thus improve delivery and contribute to improvement within the wider sector more broadly.
There will be 2 strands within the learning:
- Assessment of the impact their services have on young people.
- Process learning about what works well.
Given the targeting of the YIF investment, it will be important to assess the impact on young people in disadvantaged areas and to understand what works in engaging and retaining them in youth services.
The learning and impact provider will work collaboratively with the funded organisations to define hard and soft impact measures that are related to understanding the role of open access youth services in supporting young people's social and emotional development, helping them gain skills and build confidence and supporting them to make the transition to becoming happy, healthy and economically active adults. The provider will facilitate collaboration between funded organisations and agreement of a Common Measurement Framework (common impact metrics relevant to all funded organisations).
The learning and impact provider will develop the capability of funded organisations to measure their own impact on an ongoing basis and to improve their practice as a result. The provider will develop guidance and tools to ensure sustainability. The approach to evaluation should empower the funded organisations and the provider will facilitate ongoing collaboration and sharing of learning as the programme progresses.
As well as informing continuous development of practice amongst the funded organisations, the impact assessment and process learning will also feed into an overarching evaluation of the YIF programme against its objectives.

More information

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Additional text

This tender opportunity has been advertised in the OJEU ref no : 2016/S 242-442298.

Please note that clarifications will be published on the Big Lottery Fund website as detailed in the attached ITT document.

The Contract start date and other dates are indicative only please note that the contract period is 44 months with the option to extend for a further 12 months at the Funds discretion.

About the buyer

Contact name

Tracey Keyes

Address

1 Plough Place
London
EC4A 1DE
England

Email

procurement@biglotteryfund.org.uk