Contract for services to evaluate the Office for Students regulation of quality

Office for StudentscontractFind a TenderRef ocds-h6vhtk-055504Procurement Act 2023SME suitableVCSE suitableactive
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1

1 SME

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1

1 awarded

Published

09 Oct 2025

Description

The Office for Students (OfS) is embarking on evaluating our approach to regulating and driving up quality. As part of a wider programme of evaluation activity, the OfS requires a contract with a single supplier to deliver evaluation services on a call-off basis. To establish a baseline, an initial piece of work will involve provider case studies and a provider survey. The case studies will give a deep exploration of providers’ understanding and engagement with the OfS’s current approach to regulating quality. The survey will expand on the case studies with a broad and representative understanding of the same issues. To understand the effect of changes to our current approach, we anticipate that there will be future work orders for further rounds of case studies, further repeated rounds of the survey, and other primary data collection may also be required. To view this notice, please click here: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/delta/viewNotice.html?noticeId=985874782

Scope

Reference
PRN2371
Commercial tool
Standalone contract
Contract dates
09 Sept 2025 to 09 Sept 2031
Possible extension to 09 Sept 2033

This is entirely dependent on future decisions to award further work orders and there is no guaranteed level of spend under this contract.

CPV classifications
79419000
Contract locations
UK, United Kingdom
Particular suitability
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SME)Voluntary, community and social enterprises (VCSE)

Award criteria

Criteria the buyer will use to evaluate bids.

NameDescriptionTypeWeighting
Priceprice20.00%
Approach to the project briefquality30.00%
Delivery planquality15.00%
Project team and relevant experiencequality25.00%
Social Valuequality10.00%

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Open procedure

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Awarded to
EU
CH 01650169
SME