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# Longitudinal Study of Debt Advice

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/longitudinal-study-of-debt-advice-ocds-h6vhtk-03f8f5). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** MONEY AND PENSIONS SERVICE: "Longitudinal Study of Debt Advice". Published status: complete. Framework Ceiling: £1. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 14 Sept 2023, 12:00 BST. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [MONEY AND PENSIONS SERVICE](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/money-and-pensions-service-gov-ot1266)
- **Framework Ceiling (notional):** £1 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** 14 September 2023 at 12:00 BST
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Restricted procedure
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Research and development services and related consultancy services, Research services
- **Delivery Location:** UKC, UKD, UKE, UKF, UKG, UKH, UKH2, UKI, UKJ, UKK
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-03f8f5`

## Before you bid
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- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/longitudinal-study-of-debt-advice-ocds-h6vhtk-03f8f5#tl-md)

## Description
MaPS 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.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 73000000
- **Delivery regions:** UKJ

- **Estimated Value:** £0
- **Description:** 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 pro...
- **Contract Period:** 01/12/2023 to 31/03/2029
- **Renewal published:** yes
- **Options published:** yes

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (2)
- **Award:** 012374-2024-1 (active)

  - Supplier(s): **IFF Research**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-100629`
  - Value: £1,250,000 † (exc. VAT); ten times the procedure’s published value or more · possibly a unit error, check the notice

- **Award:** 037304-2026-C0668-1 (active)

  - Supplier(s): **I.F.F Research Ltd, IFF Research**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-100629`
  - Value: £1,767,867 † (exc. VAT); ten times the procedure’s published value or more · possibly a unit error, check the notice

> † value taken from the contract record; the award notice published none.

## Contracts (2)
- **Contract:** 012374-2024-1 (active)
  - Signed Value: £1,250,000
  - Signed Date: 04/04/2024

- **Contract:** 037304-2026-C0668-1 (active)
  - Signed Value: £1,767,867
  - Signed Date: 04/04/2024

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F037304-2026)
- **Last Source Update:** 2026-04-23T16:05:14.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-21T23:29:58.967Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-03f8f5