Official UK procurement notice
Longitudinal Study of Debt Advice
Authority: MONEY AND PENSIONS SERVICE (Central government)·Consortium: 3 public authorities
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionMaPS published the results from a two-year quantitative pilot longitudinal study (PLS) of debt advice in October 2022. The pilot has demonstrated solid evidence that doing a large-scale longitudinal study successfully is feasible and likely to produce valuable insight. <br/><br/>Given the encouraging results, MaPS wants to undertake a two-phase quantitative longitudinal study to measure the impact of debt advice on client outcomes. The design includes a randomised encouragement component by using a stratified random process to create a counterfactual group, where a treatment group is encouraged to seek debt advice, and a control group is not.<br/><br/>There are two main changes from the PLS. 1) The criteria used by MaPS to define people in need of debt advice have changed. From previous surveys, we estimate that the old and new definitions of people in need of advice will provide a similar eligibility rate but that will be tested in the first phase of the study. 2) We have a new design and structure to be used for the randomise encouragement component. Also, to be tested and improved in the development phase.
CPV: Research and development services and related consultancy services · Research services
How this framework works
From the published notice- Bids received
- 3 bids received · 1 suppliers appointed
- Framework period
- 5 yrs 3 mo from 1 Dec 2023
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1No change from Contract Award Notice:AwardedRenewalPublished value£0
No change from Contract Award Notice:
High-level objectives are the following:
Phase 1
- to successfully run the developing phase, recruit participants online in need of debt advice;
- create the experimental allocation (using a stratified random process);
- evaluate the encouragement design aimed at creating a robust counterfactual group; and
- calibrate the key parameters (such as eligibility, attrition and response rate) for the large scale longitudinal.
Phase 2
- to successfully run a large-scale randomised encouragement design longitudinal study;
- create the experimental allocation (using a stratified random process);
- successfully implement the encouragement design;
- to keep comparable and sizeable treatment and control groups during the duration of the project over four waves; and
- to measure the impact of debt advice on improving the outcomes of people.
Insight:
- to understand the causality of debt advice has with debt and wider financial well-being indicators within the debt journey over the short, medium and long term. This includes analysing complex journeys into and out of debt over time and the causes;
- to identify the immediate effects of receiving debt advice, the sustainability of the solutions and the long-term consequences of clients' decisions; and
- to identify what works and what doesn't work to increase motivation for advice seeking behaviour, which is one of the most challenging objectives in the debt advice sector.
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- Suitability
This procurement is being run via the Crown Commercial Service; Research and Insights Framework RM6126.
- “Longitudinal Study of Debt Advice” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Restricted procedure
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Awarded
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Framework agreement
- Who may use this agreement
- Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 1 Sept 2023, 13:06 BST
- Last source update
- 23 Apr 2026, 17:05 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-037304- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-03f8f5Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Appointment period ends
- 14 Sept 2023, 12:00 BST
- Submission channel
- {"written"}
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
14 Sept 2023 → 23 Apr 2026 · 3 dates- Admission / appointment period endsperiod end, not a bid countdown14 Sept 2023, 12:00 BST
- Contract starts1 Dec 2023
- Notice published181 days ago23 Apr 2026, 17:05 BST
Notice history
3 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 16 Apr 2024- Status changed to complete16 Apr 2024, 15:09 BST
- Buyer details updated16 Apr 2024, 15:09 BST
- Buyer details updated23 Apr 2026, 17:05 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast2 suppliers are admitted to this framework without individual award values or dates, see the supplier list below.
Contracts
Contract 012374-2024-1
- Signed
- 5 Apr 2024
- Value
- £1,250,000
- Period
- … – 31 Mar 2029
- Status
- active
Contract 037304-2026-C0668-1
- Signed
- 5 Apr 2024
- Value
- £1,767,867
- Period
- … – 31 Mar 2029
- Status
- active
- Change This modification to the Contract increases the volume of invitation letters be sent to potential research participants. The reason for this modification being required is that while response rates to sample recruitment to date from the general population are in line with expectations, the eligibility is lower than forecast. The intended impact of this is to achieve the required sample size and ensuring the study can deliver the high quality evidence needed for the remainder of the contract., Need for additional works, services or supplies by the original contractor/concessionaire: Technical reasons exist to prevent the change of the contractor, as this additional activity cannot be fulfilled by another supplier, due to the interoperability with existing activities by the current supplier, as the activity associated with this modification is not a separate piece of work, rather an increase to existing activities to recruit research participants and achieve the sample size needed. The modification is permitted by Regulation 72(1)(b) Public Contracts Regulations 2015 ("PCR 2015"). Additional services have become necessary for successful project delivery that were not included in the original contract, and, for technical reasons, it is not possible to change contractor without causing significant inconvenience and substantial duplication of costs. The percentage increase in value from the original contract value - approximately 21% - is within the range permitted under Regulation 72(1)(b) PCR 2015.
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3bids | 3 | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
2 public bodies on the noticeDispute resolution & review bodies
- Royal Courts of JusticeReview body
Framework contractors & participating bidders
3 commercial parties on the notice- IFF ResearchFramework contractor
- IFF ResearchFramework contractor
- IFF ResearchFramework contractor
Official documents & specifications
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