Published date: 24 June 2021

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


Closing: 16 November 2020, 1pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Research and development consultancy services - 73200000

Location of contract

United Kingdom

Value of contract

£24,999 to £25,000

Procurement reference

NHMF 287

Published date

24 June 2021

Closing date

16 November 2020

Closing time

1pm

Contract start date

7 December 2020

Contract end date

26 February 2021

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

In June 2020 The National Lottery Heritage Fund (The Fund) announced a wide-ranging Review of our approach to equality, diversity and inclusion. The Review covers The Fund's Culture, Governance, Investment and Workforce. An interim report (will be made available to the successful bidder) was produced in October 2020 and a final report is due December 2020.

The interim report emphasises the need for evidence to support The Fund's review of its approach to diversity and inclusion. Specifically, it stated it would:

• Use data and insight to inform our thinking, using quantitative and qualitative research to understand our current approaches to grant applications from groups representing people with protected characteristics, to our staff and to our approach to committee/Board recruitment and membership.

• Commission additional research as needed to help inform our approach.
To date there has been limited data and research carried out by The Fund to support The Review. It is proposed that we conduct research to support the detailed planning when the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) workgroups form in February and to support the delivery of The Review's objectives, specifically:

• Define an ambitious vision of inclusive heritage to guide the Fund's activities across our workforce, our grant-making, governance and in developing our culture.

• Set out our recommendations and actions to address inequality and barriers to inclusion.
This piece of research will provide evidence to feed into the investment strand of the EDI Review.

Aims and objectives
The aim of the research is to provide insight that can support the Fund to become a more inclusive and equitable funder. We would like to find out how organisations and groups view and define heritage and culture and their views on the Fund and its role.

This phase of the research will focus on groups currently and historically underrepresented in the Fund's portfolio, so will focus as much as possible on race and ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, socio-economic background and age and involve those organisations and groups that may have engaged with the Fund in some way in the past five years (more details about this in the Level of Engagement section below). There are two areas of focus.


1. Perceptions of heritage

• What aspects of heritage and culture are important and relevant to different groups?
• How well is this heritage currently supported?
• How could the heritage and culture sector be more inclusive?

N.B. The full description is within the attached document

Your tender proposals must be sent electronically via e-mail before the tender return deadline of 14 November 2020, 1 PM to the following contact:
Faruk Barabhuiya

faruk.barabhuiya@heritagefund.org.uk

More information

Previous notice about this procurement

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Research

  • Opportunity
  • Published 2 November 2020, last edited 10 November 2020

Attachments

Additional text

PLEASE NOTE POTENTIAL INTERVIEWS WILL NOW BE ON THE 24TH NOVEMBER NOT 23RD AS ORIGINALLY STATED.

PLEASE NOTE CONFIRMATION RETURN DATE IS THE 16TH NOVEMBER 2020.

CLARIFICATIONS AND ANSWERS UPLOADED 10.11.2020.

Award information

Awarded date

7 December 2020

Contract start date

7 December 2020

Contract end date

26 February 2021

Total value of contract

£24,150

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Social Investment Consultancy Ltd

Address

Unit 4, Benwell Studios
London
N7 7BL

Reference

No reference - other

Value of contract

£24,150

Supplier is SME?

Yes

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Contact name

Faruk Barabhuiya

Address

MEZZANINE FLOOR NORTH, INTERNATIONAL HOUSE
ST KATHARINE'S WAY
LONDON
E1W 1UN
England

Telephone

0207 591 6000

Email

faruk.barabhuiya@heritagefund.org.uk

Website

www.heritagefund.org.uk