Published date: 10 February 2017

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


Closing: 1 January 2017

Contract summary

Industry

  • Research and experimental development services - 73100000

Location of contract

West Midlands

Value of contract

£49,610 to £87,100

Procurement reference

MT191929

Published date

10 February 2017

Closing date

1 January 2017

Contract start date

16 January 2017

Contract end date

10 May 2017

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

As set out in the Post-16 Skills Plan, Government has embarked on a series of significant reforms to vocational and technical qualifications, including Functional Skills, Apprenticeships and introducing new Technical Education Qualifications. With this in mind we want to:
(1) Establish a benchmark for how these qualifications and assessments (or their closest fore-runners) are viewed and used by employers.
(2) Understand the specific issues/ features/ characteristics that lead to employers either valuing or rejecting these qualifications and assessments.
Being able to track a range of metrics on behaviours and attitudes to these over time will give us a clear indicator of whether the reforms we implement lead to greater employer confidence in the qualifications and assessments we regulate. Also, getting to the fundamental reasons why employers do or do not place value on them will help us understand why this is the case, and therefore what could be done to improve public confidence in them.

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Award information

Awarded date

16 January 2017

Contract start date

16 January 2017

Contract end date

10 May 2017

Total value of contract

£29,930

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Pye Tait Consulting

Address

Royal House, 110 Station Parade, , Harrogate

Reference

None

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Contact name

Satinder Bains

Address

Spring Place, Coventry Business Park
Herald Avenue
Coventry
CV5 6UB
England

Telephone

+44 2476716830

Email

procurement@ofqual.gov.uk

Website

http://ofqual.gov.uk