Published date: 25 January 2017

Last edited date: 25 January 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: 8 February 2017

Contract summary

Industry

  • Research and development services and related consultancy services - 73000000

  • Evaluation consultancy services - 79419000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£0 to £1,000,000

Procurement reference

Help Through Crisis BIG001-0621

Published date

25 January 2017

Closing date

8 February 2017

Contract start date

20 March 2017

Contract end date

19 March 2020

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?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

The Fund is seeking a Service Provider to provide
learning, support and evaluation services to the 59
local area partnerships.
The Learning, Support and Evaluation contract will:
1) Support and empower grant holders to robustly
evaluate and measure the impact of their projects .
2) Help grant holders to support beneficiaries in
having more influence on service delivery within their
individual projects and more widely with other
partnerships and local stakeholders.
3. Identify good practice and critical success factors in
order to enable a comparison of approaches and their
effectiveness in different scenarios .
4. Support grant holders to replicate or scale-up
approaches from elsewhere to help meet the needs of
their beneficiaries.
5. Identify research gaps regarding the tackling and
prevention of hardship crisis and ensure that learning
from the programme on impact and efficacy of models
contributes to the development of the evidence base.
6. Enable a stronger, collective voice for beneficiaries
to influence policy and practice both locally and
nationally.
The contract is for an initial term of three years with
the option to extend up to a further two years.

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About the buyer

Address

1 Plough Place
London
EC4A 1DE
England

Email

procurement@biglotteryfund.org.uk