Buyer: Scottish Funding Council →
We are seeking to establish a framework of suppliers with the experience, skills, and capacity to deliver evaluation services (including both quantitative and qualitative analysis), and effectively report on findings and recommendations.
UKM · UKM · UKM
Large Research and Evaluation Projects. Including but not limited to, designing and implementing multi-year evaluations, developing an evaluation framework for large, long-term programmes.
Award criteria
Operation & Management of the Framework Agreement — 15
Responsible Procurement — 5
Service Delivery — 40
price — 40
Projects may include but are not limited to, Mixed methods evaluations of SFC investments including document analysis, surveys, focus groups and interviews, lasting 6-12 months. Value for money or cost benefit analysis projects. Targeted stakeholder surveys
Award criteria
Operation & Management of the Framework Agreement — 15
Responsible Procurement — 5
Service Delivery — 40
price — 40
Typical projects include but are not limited to, Desk-based work such as conducting literature reviews, synthesising and analysing evidence. Conducting focus groups and analysing and reporting on findings. Conducting one to one interviews and analysing and reporting on findings.
Award criteria
Operation & Management of the Framework Agreement — 15
Responsible Procurement — 5
Service Delivery — 40
price — 40
| Item | Category | Quantity |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Research services, Economic research services, Social research services, Evaluation consultancy services | Not published |
| 2 | Research services, Economic research services, Social research services, Evaluation consultancy services | Not published |
| 3 | Research services, Economic research services, Social research services, Evaluation consultancy services | Not published |
Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 73. The category anchor is Research services (73110000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.
| Comparison set | Procedures | Reported bids per procedure | Named award suppliers | Price evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Market: CPV division 73 | 3,045 | 3 median · 26.7 average (1,086 of 3,045 with a bid count) | 2.5 average (1,227 of 3,045 with named award suppliers) | Not published |
| Same buyer | 0 | Not published | Not published | Not published |
| Delivery region: UKM | 173 | 4 median · 7.9 average (103 of 173 with a bid count) | 2 average (108 of 173 with named award suppliers) | Not published |
“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.
Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.
No planning milestones published.
No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.
No documents are published in the current source record.
Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.
| OCID | ocds-h6vhtk-055ac4 |
|---|---|
| Latest release ID | 082679-2025 |
| Latest release timestamp | Fri Dec 12 2025 16:58:55 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) |
| Source | find-a-tender |
| Official notice URL | Not published |
| Tender status | complete |
| Procurement method | open |
| Procurement method details | Open procedure |
| Main procurement category | services |
| Above threshold | Not published |
| Legal basis | 32014L0024 |
| Tender period: start | Not published |
| Tender period: end | Not published |
| Expression of interest deadline | Not published |
| Enquiry deadline | Not published |
| Award period: start | Not published |
| Award period: end | Not published |
| Submission method details | Not published |
| Submission languages | Not published |
| Electronic catalogue policy | Not published |
| Total tender value | Not published |
| Tender lots in source | 3 |
| Tender items in source | 3 |
| Tender documents in source | 0 |
| Awards in latest release | 3 |
| Contracts in latest release | 3 |
| Parties in latest release | 13 |
| Date | Event | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| 12 Dec 2025 | award, contract | 082679-2025 |
| 25 Jul 2025 | tenderUpdate | 043273-2025 |
| 16 Jul 2025 | tenderUpdate | 040499-2025 |
| 8 Jul 2025 | tender | 038062-2025 |
Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.
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