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Thematic Evaluation - Community Connection

Buyer: The National Lottery Community Fund →

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BuyerThe National Lottery Community Fund
StatusClosed
Deadline24 Jul 2026
Value£200,000
Published30 Jun 2026

What is being bought

Our Evidence and Impact Strategy sets out an ambition to increase the proportion of our funding supported by independent impact evaluations. A key way for achieving this is through commissioning and publishing cross-Fund impact evaluations on themes linked to our missions (e.g. environmental sustainability or community connection). To support this ambition, the Impact & Evaluation (I&E) Team is undertaking a project designed to: a. develop an approach for carrying out cross-Fund thematic evaluations b. test this approach through a pilot thematic evaluation c. make recommendations for embedding thematic evaluation into future practice. While the Fund regularly commissions evaluations for specific programmes, undertaking an evaluation focused on a theme cutting across multiple portfolios is new. This pilot evaluation will therefore generate both impact evidence on a theme, and methodological learning from the process to support in decisions about rolling this approach out more widely.

Delivery location

UK, GB

Categories

Evaluation consultancy services 79419000

Lot details

Lot LOT-0000

No lot description published.

Statusactive
Value£200,000
Contract periodFrom 1 Oct 2026 to 31 Mar 2028
SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

Award criteria
Technical (85%)
Commercial (15%)

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
LOT-0000Evaluation consultancy servicesNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 79. The category anchor is Evaluation consultancy services (79419000); 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 setProceduresReported bids per procedureNamed award suppliersPrice evidence
Market: CPV division 794,1253 median · 33.6 average (1,087 of 4,125 with a bid count)2.8 average (1,221 of 4,125 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer3Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Delivery region: UK1,1154 median · 69 average (282 of 1,115 with a bid count)4.7 average (336 of 1,115 with named award suppliers)Not published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)5363.5 median · 7 average (22 of 536 with a bid count)1 average (22 of 536 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.

Price-outcome signal

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.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementNot published
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimeNot published
Covered byNot published
Submission policyallowed
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetValue not published
No-engagement rationaleThis tender did not require any PME.
Planning documents0
Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Documents & submission route

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-06bf8e
Latest release ID061163-2026
Latest release timestampTue Jun 30 2026 10:54:57 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLhttps://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/061163-2026
Tender statusactive
Procurement methodopen
Procurement method detailsOpen procedure
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdYes
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: end2026-07-24T14:00:00+00:00
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadline2026-07-17T16:00:00+00:00
Award period: startNot published
Award period: end2026-09-01T23:59:59+01:00
Submission method detailshttps://uk.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=106725&TID100111821&B=
Submission languagesen
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender value£200,000
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source2
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release1

Notice history

DateEventReference
30 Jun 2026tenderUpdate061163-2026
29 Jun 2026tender060964-2026

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

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