Published date: 13 March 2017

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


Closing: 23 November 2016

Contract summary

Industry

  • Research and development consultancy services - 73200000

  • Market and economic research; polling and statistics - 79300000

Location of contract

South West

Value of contract

£130,797.50

Procurement reference

FWRECR16078HEFCE

Published date

13 March 2017

Closing date

23 November 2016

Contract start date

19 December 2016

Contract end date

31 December 2018

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Other:

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

We wish to place a tender for a large-scale formative evaluation and capacity building programme that assesses how successfully the National Collaborative Outreach Programme (NCOP) is driving rapid progress towards Government goals to:
•double the proportion of young people from disadvantaged backgrounds in higher education (HE) by 2020
•increase by 20 percent the number of students in HE from ethnic minority groups
•address the under-representation of young men from disadvantaged backgrounds in HE.
This tender forms one strand of a larger evaluation programme for NCOP, as set out in the 'Scope' section below.
There are three key elements to this tender as set out below:
• An ongoing formative evaluation of the programme between 1 January 2017 and 31 December 2018;
Support for local consortia in developing and implementing high quality evaluation plans that utilise robust approaches to evaluation of outreach activity;
• systematic review of the evidence emerging from local consortia, in order to inform the formative evaluation itself, and other strands of the NCOP evaluation led by other bodies.

More information

Additional text

BIS Research and Evaluation Framework - Lot 3

Award information

Awarded date

16 December 2016

Contract start date

19 December 2016

Contract end date

31 December 2018

Total value of contract

£130,797.50

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

CFE Research

Address

Phoenix Yard, Upper Brown Street, Leicester, LE1 5TE

Reference

None

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Address

UKSBS, Polaris House, North Star Ave
Swindon
SN2 1ET
England

Email

Research@uksbs.co.uk