Published date: 4 March 2019

Last edited date: 4 March 2019

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


Closing: 30 June 2017

Contract summary

Industry

  • Research and development services and related consultancy services - 73000000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£0 to £260,503

Procurement reference

RD1000929/1

Published date

4 March 2019

Closing date

30 June 2017

Contract start date

24 August 2017

Contract end date

30 September 2019

Contract type

Supply 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?

Yes

Description

The Contractor shall use all reasonable endeavours to achieve the following aims:

• Design and deliver a survey vehicle for biannual research with classroom teachers and senior leaders in maintained schools in England;
• Gather the views from a representative (stratified, random) sample of teachers and senior leaders on a wide range of questions covering topics relating to the Department's aims, priorities and policies. Questions will be determined by the Department in consultation with the Contractor.

The Contractor shall use all reasonable endeavours to achieve the following objectives:
• To establish and deliver a biannual (2 waves) survey to collect data from a stratified random sample of classroom teachers and senior leaders achieving at least 1,800 responses;
• To develop and use a mixed mode survey (telephone and online) to collect answers to approximately 25-35 questions (survey will be at least 20 minutes long and include 3-6 demographic questions), submitted by the Department and agreed by the contractor. The questions asked at each wave will vary according to the Department's research interests;
• To test that survey respondents are likely to interpret the questions as intended to ensure high quality data are collected by conducting at least eight cognitive interviews with senior leaders and eight with classroom teachers, and piloting the questionnaire with at least 20 teachers and 20 senior leaders before finalising the questionnaire at each wave;
• To provide the Department with a response at each wave which is nationally representative in terms of proportions of schools/pupils by free school meals eligibility, attainment band, region, school type and Local Authority type (weighted if necessary);
• To provide the Department with timely results from both waves of the survey including; anonymised topline result; weighted data tables; a fully coded and labelled .CSV data file; powerpoint slides; a detailed presentation of findings; and a written report (either full, short or both; as required by the Department); and if required by the Department a 2-page document of publishable quality on one to two specific areas of interest to the Department.

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Additional text

Contract amount £260,503
Variaton amount for additonal wave £87,189

Award information

Awarded date

1 June 2017

Contract start date

24 August 2017

Contract end date

30 September 2019

Total value of contract

£260,503

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

IFF Research

Address

Chart House
16 Chart Street
London
N1 6DD

Reference

None

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Contact name

Morgan Draper

Address

Santuary Buildings
London
SW1P 3BT
England

Email

morgan.draper@education.gov.uk