ASB Hot Spot Survey

Contract summary

Industry

• Market research services - 79310000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£1,088,088

Procurement reference

tender_412008/1329297

Published date

19 April 2024

Closing date

20 March 2024

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

18 April 2024

Contract end date

31 May 2025

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Call-off from a framework agreement

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

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Description

The Home Office (HO) is seeking to appoint a Supplier to support the evaluation of the Hotspot Response Fund 24-25.

In March 2023, the Government published a new Anti-social Behaviour (ASB) action plan. This included funding for ASB Hotspot Response pilots in ten Police Crime Commissioner (PCC) areas in 2023/24, ahead of an anticipated wider roll out across England and Wales in 2024/25. The aim of the ASB Hotspot Response was to ensure an enhanced uniformed presence in ASB hotspot areas.

Since 2021/22, the Government has also provided Grip funding to the 20 police force areas experiencing the highest levels of serious violence (SV) to support the police's operational response to tackling SV. The aim of the Grip serious violence funding was to immediately suppress and reduce serious violence by increasing delivery of visible patrol activity in hotspots whilst also supporting adoption of strategic problem-oriented policing to address the root causes of violence within hotspot locations.

Recognising the overlap between ASB Hotspot Response patrolling and Grip serious violence hotspot policing, the Home Office has decided to combine these funding schemes and rollout the programme to all 43 PCCs in 24/25.

This merged approach will allow for force areas to use the full range of uniformed visible presence available in their area to conduct patrols in hotspots, for example, police officers, Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs), local authority community safety wardens, Business Improvement District (BID) patrol staff, etc.

The decision to merge Grip and ASB hotspot response funding streams looks to build on the good practice already established. Accordingly, to avoid duplication and to reduce the number of separate funding streams, we will be giving relevant PCCs a single grant covering Grip activity and ASB hotspot response. Each force area will receive at least £1 million, as promised in the ASB Action Plan. Additionally, for force areas already in receipt of Grip funding, the Grip funding and the ASB funding will be combined given the overlap between the two schemes. The total funding available will be over £66 mill
The purpose of this work will be to support the Home Office in evaluating national rollout of the programme. This will build on previous monitoring and evaluation activity that has been conducted related to previous iterations of the Grip and ASB Hotspot Response programmes and align with internal monitoring and evaluation activity that will be delivered as part of national rollout.

The Home Office have existing plans in place to collect monitoring and crime/incident data from PCCs to measure impact of national rollout but require a supplier to support our internal activity, conducting qualitative activity with PCC and stakeholders to capture perceptions of impact of the programme and process related elements, as well as conducting a quantitative public survey to understand the impact on communities in identified hotspots

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More information

Attachments

• RM6126-Order-Form-for-contract-between-buyers-and-suppliers_Redacted.pdf
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• Appendix B_Statement of Requirements - Hotspot Response Fund.docx
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Award information

Awarded date

9 April 2024

Contract start date

18 April 2024

Contract end date

31 May 2025

Total value of contract

£1,088,088

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

IPSOS-MORI

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About the buyer

Address

2 Marsham Street
London
SW1P 4DF
England

Email

collaborativeprocurement@homeoffice.gov.uk