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Contract for services to evaluate the Office for Students regulation of quality

Evaluation consultancy services
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Published value
£600,000
Submission deadline Not published
Lots published1
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Tenderline Synopsis: Office for Students: "Contract for services to evaluate the Office for Students regulation of quality". Published status: planning. Published value: £600,000. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Contracting AuthorityOffice for StudentsScope & CategoriesNot publishedSubmission Window
planning
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Submission GatewayDirect notice routeLegal Basis & RegimeStandard procurementEstimated Value (exc. VAT)£600,000
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Coverage: 18 active published awards; 1 bid reports (which may be per lot). Supplier values exclude multi-supplier awards, frameworks and DPS, and use GBP only. They are published award values, not payments. Published-to-award variance compares single-lot, single-award, single-supplier GBP procedures with explicitly non-framework/non-DPS status; increases remain in the average. Unpublished data stays unknown. Awarded suppliers are winners, not all bidders.
Procedure terms
Contracting AuthorityOffice for Students
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Statusplanning
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Published12 Jun 2025, 14:05 BST
Last source update12 Jun 2025, 14:05 BST
Recurring procurementNot published
ClassificationEvaluation consultancy services
Delivery areaLocation not published
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-0547b6
What is being bought
We are seeking a supplier with expertise in complex impact evaluation and an in-depth understanding of leading high quality academic provision to undertake an evaluation of the Office for Students (OfS) approach to regulating and driving up quality in English higher education providers. The initial work order will involve undertaking including 10 case studies and a sector-wide survey exploring how OfS activity influences providers’ attitudes and behaviours to providing high quality higher education experiences within a complex system. Future work orders will likely include further case studies and survey responses to explore any changes in providers’ approaches to quality, with the possibility of other primary data collection. For more information about this opportunity, please visit the Delta eSourcing portal at: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-UK-Bristol:-Evaluation-consultancy-services./5R37H5KMH2 To respond to this opportunity, please click here: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/respond/5R37H5KMH2
What changed
From the official release history
  1. tender value changed
    12 Jun 2025, 14:05 BST
  2. Status changed to planning
    12 Jun 2025, 14:05 BST
  3. Official notice release published
    12 Jun 2025, 14:05 BST
  4. Buyer information updated
    12 Jun 2025, 14:05 BST
Lots and requirements (1)
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  • Lot 1 · #PRN2371
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    planning
    Published valueNot published
    The source published no individual title or description for this lot.
    Contract periodNot published
    EligibilityNot published
    Options / renewalNot published
Timeline
  1. Pipeline notice
    12 Jun 2025, 14:05 BST
  2. Procedure published
    12 Jun 2025, 14:05 BST
  3. engagement
    25 Jun 2025, 00:59 BST · scheduled
    The OfS will be holding a briefing event. The briefing event will be held online (Microsoft Teams) from 11:00-12:00 on Tuesday 24 June 2025. We recognise that the higher education sector is a highly diverse and nuanced space, which means that a successful evaluation is only possible with a combination of methodological and experiential expertise to uncover findings that enable us to see a nuanced picture of how well our quality regulation activities are working to increase high quality for students. Through this event, we will bring together those with significant expertise in both areas, and hope that this facilitates suppliers in developing proposals of the highest quality. The event will introduce the specification and answer questions. Following the event, we will distribute contact details with everyone who has shared details, to enable the formation of partnerships/collaborations for a proposal. Suppliers will need to register to attend the event. Please follow this link to register : https://survey.officeforstudents.org.uk/s/OfS-briefing-event-quality-evaluation/
Commercial outcome and competition
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Buyer and organisations in this procedure

Office for Students

Contracting authority GB-PPON-PYZM-6681-RPZP
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