Published date: 12 February 2025

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


Closing: 13 December 2024, 11am

Contract summary

Industry

  • Evaluation consultancy services - 79419000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£657,000

Procurement reference

tender_466837/1451251

Published date

12 February 2025

Closing date

13 December 2024

Closing time

11am

Contract start date

27 January 2025

Contract end date

30 March 2029

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Call-off from a dynamic purchasing system

A mini-competition or direct purchase from a pre-established dynamic purchasing system.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

**Please note this is an Award Notice and not a call for competition, this Contract has been awarded via the CCS Research and Insights (RM6126) Dynamic Purchasing System.**

DESNZ is seeking to commission a process, outcome and economic evaluation of Wave 3 of the Warm Homes: Social Housing Fund (WH:SHF; henceforth 'WH:SHF Wave 3' or 'Wave 3'. Previously known as the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (SHDF), WH:SHF is a government scheme that aims to improve the energy performance of England's social housing stock through targeted investment and collaborative engagement with social housing landlords.

DESNZ anticipates that this evaluation will entail qualitative fieldwork with key scheme stakeholders alongside secondary data analysis to provide a rigorous understanding of:

- How Wave 3 is being delivered and the extent to which this aligns with the original scheme design (through process evaluation)
- The extent to which Wave 3 is delivering its intended outcomes (through outcome evaluation)
- The extent to which Wave 3 has offered value for money (through economic evaluation)

We anticipate that this evaluation and contract will have two components:

Part 1, Core Wave 3 evaluation: Primary and secondary data collection, analysis and reporting the successful bidder will undertake to answer the evaluation questions.

Part 2, Technical Assistance to grant recipients: Certain grant recipients, known as 'Strategic Partners', will be required to undertake specific self-conducted data collection, analysis and reporting activities, beyond programme monitoring requirements, to support the Wave 3 evaluation and encourage upskilling. Other grant recipients, known as the 'Challenge Fund', may opt in. The successful supplier will be expected to provide technical assistance, quality assurance and wider support to these grant recipients.

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Award information

Awarded date

10 February 2025

Contract start date

17 February 2025

Contract end date

30 March 2029

Total value of contract

£656,848.61

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

I.F.F Research Ltd

Address

5th Floor The Harlequin Building, 65 Southwark Street, London, England, SE1 0HR

Reference

Companies House number: 00849983

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Contact name

Buildings and Energy

Address

Polaris House, North Star Avenue
Swindon
SN2 1FL
England

Telephone

01793 867005

Email

FMProcurement@uksbs.co.uk

Website

www.uksbs.co.uk