Published date: 5 August 2021
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Contract summary
Industry
Research and development services and related consultancy services - 73000000
Location of contract
SN2 1FL
Value of contract
£50,000
Procurement reference
PS21091
Published date
5 August 2021
Closing date
9 July 2021
Closing time
11am
Contract start date
20 July 2021
Contract end date
30 September 2021
Contract type
Service contract
Procedure type
Competitive quotation (below threshold)
The buyer selects a group of potential suppliers to invite to tender.
This procedure can be used for procurements below the relevant contract value threshold.
Contract is suitable for SMEs?
Yes
Contract is suitable for VCSEs?
No
Description
***THIS IS NOT A CALL FOR COMPETITION**** This contract has been awarded.
Aims and Objectives
The aim of this work is to:
• Update and evaluate methods to calculate the relative costs of conducting research in different disciplines, to assist funding bodies to assess the comparative costs of research across disciplines.
• The evaluation carried out in this project will allow funding bodies to decide on the optimal method for calculating the relative costs of research in different disciplines, ensuring that they are aware of the advantages and the methodological limitations of each method. This information will help to inform future allocations of institutional block-grant research funding.
Objectives
The objectives of the work are to:
• Explore data sources that provide circumstantial or direct evidence for the relative costs of research, and run models of relative research costs based on the data. Review the available data that can be used to provide evidence on the relative costs of research across disciplines. Review the existing Transparent Approach to Costing (TRAC)-based methodology identifying alternative data sources to replace the data collected from universities, to produce up-to-date models of relative costs of research based on TRAC data.
• Propose new methodologies based on new data sources. All methods and data sources should be compared to one another and to the existing methods, which drawon data from universities' HESA returns.
• Produce a critical evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses of eachmethod, highlighting challenges for the method
Reports will be for the internal use of the funding bodies and UKRI. It is not intended to publish the full text of this work.
Award information
Awarded date
19 July 2021
Contract start date
20 July 2021
Contract end date
30 September 2021
Total value of contract
£39,775
This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.
Jisc Services Ltd
Address
Lumen House
Library Avenue
Harwell
Didcot
OX11 0SGReference
No reference - other
Value of contract
£39,775
Supplier is SME?
No
Supplier is VCSE?
No
About the buyer
Address
Polaris House
North Star Avenue
SWINDON
SN21FF
England
Telephone
01793 867000
professionalservices@uksbs.co.uk
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