Published date: 9 August 2021

Closed early engagement


Closing date: 17 August 2021

Contract summary

Industry

  • Research and development consultancy services - 73200000

  • Market and economic research; polling and statistics - 79300000

Location of contract

SW1H 0ET

Procurement reference

PS21122 - HTG Randomised Encouragement Design Evaluation

Published date

9 August 2021

Closing date

17 August 2021

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

** Please note this is not a call for competition, This is a PIN notice for a Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy requirement**

HTG Randomised Encouragement Design Evaluation project.

BEIS is procuring a number of evaluation projects to support the recently announced programmes worth £500m- Help to Grow: Digital and Help to Grow: Management, which aim to boost firm-level productivity.

Help to Grow: Digital and recently launched Help to Grow: Management present an opportunity to measure impact using a Randomised Encouragement Design (RED) approach. Running across both programmes, this project aims to (1) design an RED protocol (2) run an RED pilot and (3) implement and run the protocol across the lifetime of the programme. The RED should consider programme delivery and existing communications strategies, and provide insights on how best to run a trial at this scale over the lifetime of the programme. This project will run alongside the process and quasi-experimental evaluations and provide key insights in running a trial at mass scale. The supplier event will give an overview of the programmes and requirements, and a Q+A session where suppliers can share their thoughts and suggestions on the project.

We would like to invite prospective bidders to attend a pre-market engagement session on Wednesday, 18th August 2021 10:00 - 10:45 via MS Teams.

The agenda for the day is as follows:
• Introductions, • Overview of the requirement, • Evaluation expectations,• Procurement overview, • Discussion / Q&A

Note that the route to market will be via CCS Research Marketplace DPS (RM6018) (www.crowncommercial.gov.uk/agreements/RM6018) and to bid for this work the lead contractor will have to be registered on the CCS Research Marketplace DPS (RM6018) prior to the requirement being launched.

More information

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A pre-market engagement session will be held on Wednesday, 18th August 2021, 10:00 - 10:45 via MS Teams. This will provide an opportunity for potential providers to find out more about the aims of the procurement and the process. Providers wishing to attend need to RSVP by Tuesday, 17th August 2021 at 11.00 stating their name, company and email.

This information should be sent to the following email address: professionalservices@uksbs.co.uk for the attention of Victoria Clewer.

Please ensure that the subject heading for the email is as follows:
PS21122 HTG Randomised Encouragement Design Evaluation Market Engagement Event.

About the buyer

Address

Polaris House, North Star Avenue
SWINDON
SN21FF
England

Email

professionalservices@uksbs.co.uk