Published date: 6 November 2017

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: 22 November 2017

Contract summary

Industry

  • Research and development services and related consultancy services - 73000000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£50,000

Procurement reference

CAPLTFC001-DN307260-21879530

Published date

6 November 2017

Closing date

22 November 2017

Contract start date

29 November 2017

Contract end date

28 February 2018

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?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No


Description

The Catapult is undertaking an exercise to appoint a suitable, capable and experienced provider of research services into the data used for Local Plan and Planning Application Evidence. Through this procurement, we are seeking consultancy services for the following activities: • Development of an analytical framework that will support the selection and prioritisation of data sources to be standardised, with reference to current regulatory and legislative requirements, as well as custom and practice. • Strategic Plan making and Data: o Analysis of the most commonly required evidence bases for plan-making and development control o User and economic research into business as usual costs and processes for obtaining insight from data for plan-makers. • Development Control and Data: o Analysis of the most commonly required evidence bases required by Local Authorities of applicants in planning applications. • Interim report recommending which evidence base documents and data sources likely to be most valuable for standardisation • Data source mapping - location, quality (e.g. level of standardisation or machine readability, etc.) and availability of data sources that are required for the development of plan-making and planning application evidence documents. • Analysis of analytical methodologies used to translate raw data into plan-making and planning application evidence documents. • High level cost analysis of the current business as usual scenario across English planning authorities and English real estate developers, including a breakdown of key activities and associated costs by different participants. We will be using this research to inform another piece of internal research that will aim to develop a digital transformation roadmap for UK government and a digitial transformation toolkit to support local planning authorities. We will expect the successful supplier to work in a flexible manner to ensure that. All IP generated will be owned by the Catapult.


More information

Additional text

To express interest in the requirement and download the ITT please visit www.fccprocurement.org.uk. New suppliers will be required to register. The reference for this opportunity is DN307260


About the buyer

Contact name

Davinder Sarai

Address

1 Sekforde Street
London
EC1R 0BE
United Kingdom

Email

davinder.sarai@westhillcommercial.co.uk

Website

https://futurecities.catapult.org.uk