Published date: 15 July 2021

Last edited date: 21 July 2021

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: 23 August 2021, 9:10am

Contract summary

Industry

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Location of contract

SN2 2EH

Value of contract

£15,000 to £20,000

Procurement reference

P/REF HE 00001715

Published date

15 July 2021

Closing date

23 August 2021

Closing time

9:10am

Contract start date

1 September 2021

Contract end date

12 November 2021

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

As part of our Inclusion Strategy 2021-2023, Historic England is committed to undertaking research into the Heritage sector, in order to understand the demographic make-up of its workforce, to create an evidence base for our sector-wide work, and to help us address some of the barriers to entering the sector. The results will also help inform our understanding and approaches to other actions on the Inclusion Strategy.

The Heritage sector consists of a complex ecosystem of organisations that range from small scale charities relying on volunteers to national and regional level organisations bodies with significant number of employees. While some organisations are currently collecting evidence on diversity of their workforce and volunteers there is no common repository of data available to facilitate national level understanding of diversity in the heritage workforce and subsequently support policy actions to improve it at organisational level.

We are looking for an experienced Researcher to design an approach to undertaking the first phase of this research with the support of the Historic England Inclusion Team.

Through this research, we are hoping to answer the following 3 questions:

o What does the workforce of the Heritage sector currently look like?
o How does this compare with the demographic make-up of England?
o What does the workforce in the Heritage sector look like with regard to different job roles?

Historic England's strategy for Inclusion, Diversity and Equality has identified a series of priority groups as we know that these people are currently under-represented in our workforce and are less likely to engage with our work:

- people with Black, Asian or other Minority Ethnic Heritage;
- people who identify as LGBTQ+;
- young people under 25;
- people with disabilities;
- people who are disadvantaged by their social and/or economic background or circumstances, or by where they live

We would like the research to clearly identify and quantify how these groups are represented in the workforce of the Heritage sector.
The purpose of this research is therefore to:
o Provide the Heritage sector with robust and detailed data about its workforce (including unpaid governance roles)
o To inform Historic England's priorities and pathways forward with the Inclusion Strategy

A future phase of the research, not covered in this brief, will seek to further Historic England's understanding of the barriers faced by those from our priority demographics through qualitative research.

Further information available in the Tender Document.

More information

Links

Additional text

Suppliers interested in this opportunity should register at https://in-tendhost.co.uk/historic-england/aspx/Home in order to express interest and download documentation.

Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No

About the buyer

Contact name

Sean Curran

Address

The Engine House
Firefly Avenue
SWINDON
SN2 2EH
United Kingdom

Telephone

01793000000

Email

Sean.Curran@HistoricEngland.org.uk

Website

https://in-tendhost.co.uk/historic-england/aspx/Home