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

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Key details

Contracting authority
Office for Students
Public authority - central government
Region
Bristol
Delivery: United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Contract value
£500,000ex VAT
£600,000 inc VAT
Submissions closed
23 July 2025
Published
27 June 2025

Procurement

Contract period
10 September 2025 - 9 September 2031
6 years
Possible extension to 10 September 2033 · 8 years in total
Procedure type
Open procedure
CPV classifications
  • 79419000 Evaluation consultancy services

What happened

Office for Students awarded this contract to Ecorys UK Ltd worth £500,000 on 21 Aug 2025. The contract runs until 9 Sept 2031.

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.

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Awarded supplier

Supplier
Ecorys UK Ltd
Award value
£500,000
Award date
21 August 2025

Contact

Address
Westward House, Lime Kiln Close, Stoke Gifford, Bristol, BS34 8SR
Contact name
Sarah Phillips

Identifiers

Buyer reference
PRN2371
Notice ID
035736-2025
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-055504

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