Published date: 20 February 2018

Last edited date: 20 February 2018

This notice was replaced on 12 April 2019

This notice does not contain the most up-to-date information about this procurement. The most recent notice is:

Awarded contract (published 2 May 2019, last edited 2 May 2019)

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Contract summary

Industry

  • Research and development services and related consultancy services - 73000000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£90,000

Procurement reference

DFERPPU 2017048

Published date

20 February 2018

Closing date

6 March 2018

Contract start date

6 April 2018

Contract end date

31 March 2019

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?

Yes

Description

Expressions of interest are sought to understand more fully the population of EU staff working in publicly funded higher education (HE) providers in the UK, as well as provider resilience and workforce planning. This will involve primary research through a survey of HE providers and the academic and non-academic staff they employ, as well as secondary analysis of data from the HESA staff record.

The aims of the project are to build a profile of the population of EU domiciled staff working in HE providers, and to understand provider workforce plans, and the contingencies or risk management processes they have in place. Please note that the research design may need to flexibly respond to new developments.

Analysis of secondary data
This part of the research will analyse HESA staff data to explore research questions and to design the sample specification and weights for the survey.

Survey of HE providers
This part of the research will then survey senior figures working in HR, recruitment or a related area at a sample of the 167 publicly funded UK HE providers.

Survey of EU staff
This part of the research will comprise an online survey of staff working in UK HE providers using telephone interviews to follow up on any persistent non-response and to ensure that the minimum sample sizes are achieved.
We envisage that EU staff will be sampled through co-operation with providers.

Report write-up
All analysis and discussion should be written up into the format of a DfE Research Report.

Please note that at this stage, bidders are only required to submit an Expression of Interest rather than a full bid. Please see the relevant document for more information.

More information

Attachments

Additional text

The deadline for EOIs is 6pm Tuesday 6th March 2018

Expressions of interests submitted must be no more than 1,000 words excluding references - anything longer will be disregarded.

About the buyer

Contact name

Jim Forsyth Harris

Address

2 St. Paul's Place
Sheffield
S1 2JF
England

Email

james.forsyth-harris@education.gov.uk