Published date: 23 March 2018

Last edited date: 23 March 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 September 2015

Contract summary

Industry

  • Research and development consultancy services - 73200000

  • Market and economic research; polling and statistics - 79300000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£15,000 to £25,000

Procurement reference

UK SBS BLOJEU-CR150058RCUK Interdisciplinary Study

Published date

23 March 2018

Closing date

9 September 2015

Contract start date

5 October 2015

Contract end date

27 May 2016

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

*** This tender requirement was abandoned prior to a Contract award decision. ***

UK Shared Business Services eSourcing

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A report on interdisciplinary to act as a discussion paper for the GRC 2016 Annual Meeting, consisting of a combination of desk-based literature reviews, research on policy and a series of telephone interviews with selected research funding agencies around the world, to produce no fewer than ten, and no more than fifteen, country based case studies. The aim of the report is to produce an initial overview of what policies and policy environments exist globally across a small but balanced cross-section of GRC participants. The commissioner recognises that many funding agencies will not have specific policies or schemes for supporting interdisciplinary, but will have embedded what they consider to be good practice throughout their funding policies, and the report should identify where and how this is happening and provide an initial assessment of success.

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About the buyer

Contact name

Rebecca Fish

Address

UK SBS, North Star House
North Star Avenue
Swindon
SN2 1FF
England

Email

research@uksbs.co.uk