Published date: 24 July 2024

Last edited date: 7 August 2024

This notice was replaced on 16 December 2024

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

Awarded contract (published 16 December 2024)

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Contract summary

Industry

  • Social research services - 79315000

Location of contract

SW1A 2HQ

Value of contract

£0 to £90,000

Procurement reference

SMC-2425-74

Published date

24 July 2024

Closing date

16 August 2024

Closing time

4pm

Contract start date

2 September 2024

Contract end date

25 April 2025

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

The Social Mobility Commission (SMC) is interested in commissioning research to understand regional disparities and challenges in areas with poor mobility and prosperity. Our motivation stems from the need to understand the complex issues that keep some areas, and people, from thriving.

State of the Nation 2023 (SoN23) shows very clear inequalities of mobility across the country, captured in our regional analysis of mobility rates and drivers. But the findings also show that descriptive statistics, even when split by protected characteristics and socio-economic background, cannot fully capture underlying causes. Every pattern has exceptions, and not every cause can be brought out by the data.

Our current Index uses the best available data to construct regional indicators of early-life mobility outcomes, and of the drivers of mobility. The drivers of social mobility in our Index are there because there is evidence that they affect aggregate rates of social mobility at a national level. Yet, at lower geographical levels, there are individuals and local factors affecting social mobility, and for many of these, no data is currently available. So the Commission is keen to develop a comprehensive research project, or "deep dive", which will consider the complex, co-occurring and compounding factors that contribute to low social mobility at the individual and local level.

Bidders must submit their Bids before 4pm on 16 August 2024. All Bids must be submitted to contact@socialmobilitycommission.gov.uk.

Failure to return Bids by the time and due date or in the required format may disqualify Bidders from consideration.

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About the buyer

Address

Social Mobility Commission
1 Horse Guards Road
London
SW1A 2HQ
England

Email

contact@socialmobilitycommission.gov.uk