Framework Agreement: Local and Regional Transport Analysis (LRTA) and Roads Economics, Modelling and Evaluation (REME)

The overall aim of the contract is to deliver timely social research, monitoring, evaluation, and economic analysis to support the Authority’s LRTA and REME divisions.

To provide sufficient capacity and resilience to meet LRTA and REME’s analytical needs. The Authority intends to appoint up to three suppliers to deliver this contract. We are looking to develop strong, partnership working with our suppliers that will enable us to quickly scope and commission high quality, fit-for-purpose research and analysis.

Successful suppliers shall be skilled in a range of analytical methods and experienced in delivering this in a government or policy making context. This includes design and delivery of:

Rapid evidence reviews / literature reviews / evidence synthesis including of economics literature/reports

Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods primary research projects

Secondary analysis of existing datasets, including cleaning, use of appropriate/statistical techniques, and quality assurance.

Advanced quantitative data analysis projects

Monitoring & evaluation studies

Meta-analysis and meta-evaluation

Economic modelling and forecasting

Cost benefit analysis to support business cases, Impact Assessments and De-Minimis Assessments

Economic evaluation to support future funding requests, to provide lessons learnt on appraisal work and to form evidence as part of the Post Implementation Review (PIR)

Peer review and quality assurance of analytical plans and outputs

It is likely that multiple projects will be delivered through the contract at one time. This means suppliers will need to have the capacity to deliver more than one project at a time, including more resource intensive primary research projects.

The maximum budget for the contract is for approximately £1,250,000 p/a excluding VAT, with a lifetime value of up to £5,000,000. Bids are welcome from individual suppliers (including any key Sub-Contractors that will support you in the delivery of the framework) and consortia who can demonstrate that they are able to meet the full set of requirements. Suppliers must also be willing and able to bring in new partners on board during the lifetime of the contract should additional capacity, skills or expertise be required to be able to meet project-specific requirements.

Indicative dates:

Service to go live: February 2023 onwards.

Estimated contract duration: 4 years.

Publish date of ITT: 8th December 2022, with a closing date of 25th January 2023.

A supplier event via Microsoft Teams was held Tuesday 6th December 2022, 12:00 – 12:30hrs, sharing details on the above requirement and to gauge the level of interest in the market. A recording will be shared via our e-tendering portal

The competition will be run via the DfT e-portal system, Jaggaer, and interested parties will need to register for this service at dft.app.jaggaer.com/web/login.html ↗