Published date: 10 May 2017

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


Closing: 17 March 2017

Contract summary

Industry

  • Market and economic research; polling and statistics - 79300000

Location of contract

South West

Value of contract

£110,000

Procurement reference

UK SBS FWRECR17031HEFCE - Evaluation of Catalyst Fund: Addressing barriers to student success progra

Published date

10 May 2017

Closing date

17 March 2017

Contract start date

31 March 2017

Contract end date

31 March 2019

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Other:

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

This tender seeks to commission an external evaluation relating to a new HEFCE Catalyst Fund programme entitled 'Addressing barriers to student success'.

The HEFCE Catalyst Fund commits up to £30 million in annual funding. This money aims to drive innovation in the HE sector, enhance excellence and efficiency in HE, and support innovative solutions.

This particular programme aims to address differential outcomes within higher education and beyond for certain groups of students that are disproportionately affected.

HEFCE wishes to place a tender for a two year formative evaluation and capacity building programme that will assess how successfully the Catalyst funded programme has:
a. supported collaborations that have developed systematic and strategic approaches to address differential student outcomes
b. supported collaborations that have scaled up successful innovations for disabled students
c. identified how good practice and interventions can be validated, replicated, transmitted and embedded across a diverse range of providers, and identify what conditions need to be present to facilitate this.

This tender has three strands (described in more detail in the 'Requirement' section):
a. formative evaluation, ongoing thematic synthesis and dissemination of good practice
b. facilitating and delivering project-level evaluation capacity building for the successful projects in the programme, including formative support where necessary
c. summative, systematic review of the evidence emerging from the projects and their overall impact. This should incorporate an element of peer review.

Award information

Awarded date

7 April 2017

Contract start date

10 April 2017

Contract end date

30 April 2019

Total value of contract

£91,625

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Warwick Economics & Development Ltd

Address

2 Snow Hill
Birmingham
B4 6GA

Reference

None

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Address

Polaris House
North Star Avenue
Swindon
SN2 1ET
England

Email

Research@uksbs.co.uk