Published date: 2 April 2020

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: 14 April 2020

Contract summary

Industry

  • Publications - 22120000

  • Research and development services and related consultancy services - 73000000

Location of contract

SW1Y 5AG

Value of contract

£0 to £14,000

Procurement reference

ITT 492

Published date

2 April 2020

Closing date

14 April 2020

Contract start date

1 May 2020

Contract end date

31 December 2020

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?

Yes

Description

The Royal Society seeks to engage an experienced interviewer, writer and editor for the Envision Project which shall focus on improvements in the education system in the area of STEM.

Drawing on the expertise of our fellowship, the Society provides expert, independent advice to policy-makers and the general public, championing the contributions that science can make to economic prosperity, quality of life and environmental sustainability. Recent policy studies have covered topics such as ocean resources, machine learning, school-business collaboration and synthetic biology.

Arising from the President of the Royal Society's concerns about the fitness of UK education for future science, the economy and wider society, the Royal Society's vision for science mathematics and computing education sets out to explore how school education systems in the UK should evolve to meet the demands of the mid-21st century.

To support this agenda, the Society has established the Envision project. The Society seeks to engage an experienced interviewer and writer/editor to produce short, thought-provoking publications which will encourage discussion surrounding the future of education by applying the Society's Broad and Balanced approach to a wide range of themes. These Envision publications will be based on interviews the successful Tenderer shall conduct with nominated high-profile stakeholders.

The successful tenderer shall deliver the following outputs:
Part 1: Conduct interviews and draft think pieces with high profile stakeholders - book and conduct interviews with key stakeholders between April and the end of December 2020. Draft publications to complement the interview pieces 1,000-word think pieces per publication, written in the first person based on the interviews.
Draft for each publication, a 1000-word supplementary evidence document.
Part 2: Conduct edit of 2,000-word publication
Part 3: Edit of entire project's publications to ensure consistency of message and tone throughout

More details are contained in the provided Specification and instructions are provided in regard to obtaining the full tender pack.

More information

Attachments

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Tenderers seeking to obtain the full tender pack shall complete and email the Tenderer Registration Form to Procurement@royalsociety.org as soon as possible.

Thank you and we look forward to receiving responses.

About the buyer

Contact name

Rebecca Farquhar

Address

6 Carlton House Terrace
LONDON
SW1Y5AG
England

Telephone

+44 20 7451 2653

Email

Procurement@royalsociety.org

Website

www.royalsociety.org