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# Social Mobility Commission - Who are the long term welfare recipients and what prevents them from progressing socially and economically?

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/social-mobility-commission-who-are-the-long-term-welfare-recipients-and-what-prevents-them-ocds-h6vhtk-0657df). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Social Mobility Commission: "Social Mobility Commission - Who are the long term welfare recipients and what prevents them from progressing socially and economically?". Published status: complete. Published Value: £50,000. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 11 Mar 2026, 12:00 GMT. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [Social Mobility Commission](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/social-mobility-commission-gov-pb1193)
- **Published Value:** £50,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** 11 March 2026 at 12:00 GMT
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Below threshold - open competition
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Social research services
- **Delivery Location:** UK
- **Legal Basis:** UKPGA 2023/54
- **Awarded Value:** £43,500 (exc. VAT, 1 contract)
- **Official Documents:** 5 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/social-mobility-commission-who-are-the-long-term-welfare-recipients-and-what-prevents-them-ocds-h6vhtk-0657df#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-0657df`

## 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/social-mobility-commission-who-are-the-long-term-welfare-recipients-and-what-prevents-them-ocds-h6vhtk-0657df#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission method:** Bidders must submit their Bids before 12:00 midday on 11 March 2026. All Bids must be submitted to contact@socialmobilitycommission.gov.uk. Failure to return Bids by the time and due date or in the required format may disqualify Bidders from consideration.
Tenderers should present their proposals in the following format:
Section 1 Summary of Proposal
Section 2 Meeting the Specification
Details of proposed approach;
- Methodology including constraints and possible solutions;
- Project management - Tenderers should indicate how they will monitor the project to ensure it is delivered in terms of quality, timeliness and cost. Tenders must include a work plan/Gantt chart that clearly shows the key activities and milestones leading up to the final report. It should mirror the detail on the budget template.
- Staffing, including short staff profiles covering examples of key relevant experience and individual/staff expertise and qualifications. Proposed distribution of duties should be clearly stated if the bid involves sub-contracting or collaboration between different providers; and
- Outputs, including how the findings will be presented.
Section 3 Cost and Charging Arrangements
Costs should be shown separately by deliverables set out above.
For example:
- Deliverable 1: £ Insert amount
- Deliverable 2: £ Insert amount
- Deliverable 3: £ Insert amount
- Deliverable 4: Insert amount
- Total: £ Insert amount
All costs should be quoted exclusive of VAT but please indicate if the project will attract VAT. If your proposal includes costs for sub-contractors these costs must be shown inclusive of any VAT element (e.g. sub-contractor's costs to you are £10K plus VAT, your proposal should show subcontractors costs as £12K inclusive of VAT @ 20%).
The department will also conduct its own due diligence checks in relation to the bidder's financial viability and may request additional financial information to be provided as part of this process. Whilst the department will attempt to mitigate any financial risks it may, at its own discretion, reject a bid where it assesses the financial risk to be too great to proceed with the award of the contract.
Section 4 Risk Management
- Outline, in no more than one-page, the key risks to delivering the project and what contingencies will be put in place to deal with them.
- A risk is any factor that may delay, disrupt or prevent the full achievement of a project objective. All risks should be identified.
- For each risk, the one-page summary should assess its likelihood (high, medium or low) and specify its possible impact on the project objectives (again rated high, medium or low). The assessment should also identify appropriate actions that would reduce or eliminate each risk or its impact.
- Typical areas of risk for a research project might include staffing, resource constraints, technical constraints, data access, timing, management and operational issues, but this is not an exhaustive list.
Section 5 Data Security
- Provide a plan that explains how departmental and/or personal data will be protected.
- Provide a copy of your Cyber Essentials Qualification.
Section 6 References
For the references, the SMC requires relevant examples of similar projects you have completed and how they are similar to this tender.
Sections 1 - 4 should not exceed 10 sides of A4 and sections 5 -6 should not exceed 3 sides of A4, for a combined total of 13 sides. Any bids above that will not be considered. The font size should not be smaller than 10pt. Embedded links will not be considered, nor will Annexes that exceed the 13 page count.

## Description
Project Description
The Social Mobility Commission (SMC) monitors progress towards improving social mobility in the UK and promotes social mobility in England. It is an independent statutory body created by an Act of Parliament.
The SMC is interested in conducting research to understand those who are long-term welfare recipients and the factors preventing them from progressing socially and economically. Our motivation stems from wanting to understand the characteristics of long-term welfare recipients, how they utilise the welfare system and the individual and systemic factors that prevent progress.
Background
The UK welfare system has evolved over time. Post-World War II, the 1942 Beveridge report and 1948 National Assistance Act, saw the initiation of a comprehensive, non-means-tested system of social security designed to act as a financial safety net. The system was intended to act as a 'trampoline' supporting people in times of need, before returning to self sufficiency. However, there are arguments that the current system prevents those at the lowest socioeconomic levels from moving upwards. The mechanisms for the welfare system affecting long-term dependency are influenced by a complex combination of systemic and individual factors and little is known about those who are long-term dependent and how to support them.
Objectives
The SMC's primary objective is to answer the research question: What prevents people who are long term recipients of welfare from progressing socially and economically? To begin to answer this question, we wish to conduct quantitative research to provide an understanding of 'long term welfare recipients'. This will include:
1) Defining who is a long term welfare recipient. What is the prevalence and what are the core demographic and socio-economic factors that define this group?
2) What are the flows of people into and out of long term welfare receipt? Do people get 'stuck' on welfare?
3) What socio demographic characteristics and structural factors are associated with people flowing into and out of long term welfare receipt?
Through this research, SMC will gain a rich understanding of individuals who are long term welfare recipients, their characteristics, and the sociodemographic characteristics that are associated with moving into and out of dependency.
This evidence will inform a separate qualitative workstream (out of scope of this tender). Employing a systems thinking approach, the SMC will convene experts across the working and policy level for a series of workshops (e.g. incorporating work coaches, DWP officials, academics, think-tanks and charities). These sessions will map the interconnected components of the system surrounding long-term welfare use. It will build on descriptive evidence of those who are long term welfare recipients, to identify critical patterns, relationships, and feedback loops both at the individual and system level. In tandem with the quantitative research proposed in this tender, this h...
> [Read full procurement scope and specification on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/social-mobility-commission-who-are-the-long-term-welfare-recipients-and-what-prevents-them-ocds-h6vhtk-0657df)

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 79315000
- **Delivery regions:** UK
- **Delivery countries in notice:** GB
- **Estimated Value:** £50,000

- **Contract Period:** 31/03/2026 to 30/09/2026
- **Renewal published:** yes

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

  - Supplier(s): **LSE ENTERPRISE LTD**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-170747`
  - Value: £43,500 † (exc. VAT)

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

## Contracts (1)
- **Contract:** 1 (active)
  - Signed Value: £43,500
  - Signed Date: 10/05/2026

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F015126-2026)
- **Last Source Update:** 2026-06-08T09:54:08.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-21T22:52:44.068Z
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