Published date: 29 September 2015

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: 2 November 2015

Contract summary

Industry

  • Research and development consultancy services - 73200000

  • Social research services - 79315000

  • Other community, social and personal services - 98000000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£600,000 to £900,000

Procurement reference

BIG001-0604

Published date

29 September 2015

Closing date

2 November 2015

Contract start date

18 December 2015

Contract end date

18 December 2019

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

The Big Lottery Fund is seeking to appoint a service provider to undertake an independent evaluation of parts of its Building Better Opportunities (BBO) programme in England. An important element of this evaluation is the sharing of learning with BBO grant holders throughout the period of the contract. The successful service provider will require to work with the Fund and grant holders (BBO projects) to provide an evaluation and learning package that will achieve the following:-
• identify what is working well and why (both in terms of engaging and supporting certain target groups of participants and in delivering in line with ESF rules). Part of this may involve considering what is not working well and why, in order to set out a robust and clear set of recommendations for future work;
and
• share these findings with all BBO grant holders, so they can use this learning to improve their own project delivery.
The Fund expects the evaluation service provider to deliver services across four key elements of the Contract which are interlinked:
1) Scoping/Design Exercise
2) Access
3) Impact
4) Programme of learning activities
The Contract will be for a term of four years (Initial term) subject to early termination provisions as set out in the Contract terms and conditions, and the contract is capped at £600,000 including VAT and all expenses over four years to provide services to a maximum number of 140 BBO grant holders. The Fund shall have the option to extend the Contract for up to a further two years (Extension period) and/ or request additional related to the Contract services. The estimated value of such 2 year extension and/ or additional related to the Contract services will be based on the charges and rates submitted by the successful bidder in its Tender response and shall not exceed £300,000 including VAT and expenses.
Further details of the Fund's requirements are set out in the ITT attached.

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If you are interested in this opportunity please read ITT and follow the instructions set out in the attached ITT. Please check the Fund's procurement page on regular basis for any updates and clarifications.

If you are interested to bid for this contract please submit your tender response in accordance with the instructions set out in the ITT before the tender deadline on 2 November 2015, 12:00 Noon.

About the buyer

Contact name

Procurement team

Address

One Plough Place
London
EC4A 1DE
England

Email

procurement@biglotteryfund.org.uk