Published date: 30 April 2018

Last edited date: 30 April 2018

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


Closing: 1 November 2017

Contract summary

Industry

  • Research and development consultancy services - 73200000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£41,700

Procurement reference

RD1001254

Published date

30 April 2018

Closing date

1 November 2017

Contract start date

7 February 2018

Contract end date

31 May 2018

Contract type

Supply 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?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The Contractor shall use all reasonable endeavours to achieve the following aims:

a. To provide detailed information on how teachers currently find, access, and assess curriculum resources;
b. To identify whether there are any gaps in the availability of high quality and knowledge rich current curriculum resources, where these gaps lie, how teachers might best prefer these resources to be made available;
c. To identify what materials teachers feel would be beneficial in improving teaching and reducing teacher workload.

The Contractor shall use all reasonable endeavours to achieve the following objectives:

Objective 1: Recruit 20 primary and 20 secondary schools, develop topic guides, and complete 100 semi-structured in-depth interviews of 45-60 minutes in length.
• Schools shall be purposively sampled to reflect a range of characteristics: regions, school size, deprivation levels, location, Ofsted rating, attainment levels and multi-academy trust status.


• One senior leader and one teacher or middle leader to be interviewed at each primary school, one senior leader and two teachers or middle leaders to be interviewed at each secondary school.
• Teachers, middle leaders, and senior leaders shall be purposively sampled to reflect a range of characteristics: length of service in profession, length of service at school, qualifications, key stage (primary teachers and middle leaders), and subject taught (secondary teachers and middle leaders).
Objective 2: Deliver high quality reporting to inform the Department on decisions around the curriculum fund:
• A discussion presentation of findings during the week commencing 07/05/18; and
• A written report presenting interview results for a non-technical audience to be finalised by 31/05/18.

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Award information

Awarded date

25 January 2018

Contract start date

7 February 2018

Contract end date

31 May 2018

Total value of contract

£41,700

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

CooperGibson

Address

23 Skylines Village
Limeharbour
London
E14 9TS

Reference

None

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Contact name

Laura Pearce

Address

Sanctuary Buildings
London
SW1P 3BT
England

Telephone

01142742272

Email

laura.pearce@education.gov.uk