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title: "Contract for services to evaluate the Office for Students regulation of quality"
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# Contract for services to evaluate the Office for Students regulation of quality

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/contract-for-services-to-evaluate-the-office-for-students-regulation-of-quality-ocds-h6vhtk-0547b6). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Office for Students: "Contract for services to evaluate the Office for Students regulation of quality". Published status: planning. Planned Pipeline Value: £600,000. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** PLANNING (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [Office for Students](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/office-for-students-gov-pb1253)
- **Planned Pipeline Value:** £600,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Not published
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Evaluation consultancy services
- **Delivery Location:** Not published
- **Legal Basis:** UKPGA 2023/54
- **Official Documents:** 1 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/contract-for-services-to-evaluate-the-office-for-students-regulation-of-quality-ocds-h6vhtk-0547b6#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-0547b6`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/contract-for-services-to-evaluate-the-office-for-students-regulation-of-quality-ocds-h6vhtk-0547b6#tl-md)

## Description
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

## Lots (1)
### Lot PRN2371: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `PRN2371`
- **Status:** planning
- **CPV codes:** 79419000

- **Contract Period:** 10/09/2025 to 09/09/2031
- **Renewal published:** yes

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F031938-2025)
- **Last Source Update:** 2025-06-12T13:05:26.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-29T03:18:35.412Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-0547b6