Published date: 25 July 2018

Last edited date: 25 July 2018

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: 9 August 2018

Contract summary

Industry

  • Research and development services and related consultancy services - 73000000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£55,000

Procurement reference

STA-0196

Published date

25 July 2018

Closing date

9 August 2018

Contract start date

3 September 2018

Contract end date

31 January 2019

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

The Department for Education (DfE) intends to commission a supplier to provide psychometric services to the Test Development Division of the Standards and Testing Agency in the form of outcomes analysis and technical evidence on the 2018 key stage 2 live science sampling tests.

Psychometrics is a highly specialist area and due to a number of factors resource is currently not available within the Psychometrics team.

Key Deliverables:

• Provide the outcome analysis and technical evidence to STA in an agreed format, to enable STA to construct a methodology and outcomes report, for science sampling The analyses required are:
o Utilising the software flexMIRT and the statistical package SPSS, graded response model item response theory and simultaneous latent regression modelling. Converting plausible values to outcomes according to the agreed scale score range, IRT assumption checking, sub-score analysis and item reporting based on the above analysis are also required.

• Work alongside the STA senior psychometrician whilst we undertake quality assurance of the analysis. Any deviations or discrepancies will need to be discussed and addressed to our satisfaction.

More information

Attachments

Additional text

E-mail: Testdevelopment.STA@education.gov.uk and Sarah.Welland@education.gov.uk.

About the buyer

Address

Standards and Testing Agency
Earlsdon Park 53-55 Butts Road
Coventry
CV1 3BH
England

Email

Testdevelopment.STA@education.gov.uk