Closed tender

Provision of Analysis of Closed Consultation: Ending Conversion Practices in Scotland

Details

Buyer: Scottish Government
Topic: Research and development services and related consultancy services
Published: 10 April 2024
Submission: 9 May 2024
Source: uk:public_contracts_scotland

Tender description

The Scottish Government (SG), on behalf of the Scottish Ministers, is seeking to commission a Contractor to undertake the analysis of responses to the public consultation on: Ending Conversion Practices in Scotland. The overall aim of the contract is provide robust and timely analysis and reporting on the responses to the consultation, to inform development of legislation to end conversion practices in Scotland. The work, a mixture of quantitative and qualitative analysis, will start at on 29 May 2024 and final output will be required by 26 August 2024. The contract will end 29 August 2024. Lot 1: The Scottish Government (SG), on behalf of the Scottish Ministers, is seeking to commission a Contractor to undertake the analysis of responses to the public consultation on: Ending Conversion Practices in Scotland. The overall aim of the contract is provide robust and timely analysis and reporting on the responses to the consultation, to inform development of legislation to end conversion practices in Scotland. The work, a mixture of quantitative and qualitative analysis, will start at the end of 29 May 2024 and final output will be required by 26th August 2024. The contract will end 29 August 2024. The consultation opened on 9 January 2024 and closed on 2 April 2024, however we are expecting a small number of hard copy responses to be submitted up until 18 April 2024. The full consultation asks 38 questions, broken down as follows: 14 questions are closed (e.g.: inviting yes/no/don’t know responses; with multiple choice options). 24 questions are open (inviting a free text response option: e.g. explain your answer, any other comments).. Award criteria questions can be found in the ITT together with the weightings.

Timeline

Completed: Tender published10 April 2024
Current notice
Completed: Submission date9 May 2024

About the buyer

The Scottish Government is a devolved central government department that buys through its Scottish Procurement and Property Directorate. Regulated procurements across the Scottish public sector are advertised on Public Contracts Scotland, the national portal set up in 2008. Bids are usually submitted through PCS-Tender, the national eTendering system it funds. The directorate also runs frameworks covering construction, corporate services, ICT, professional services, utilities and HR. Many of these frameworks are open to the wider Scottish public sector as well as central government. The Supplier Development Programme offers free tender training to SMEs and third sector organisations.

Procurement spend from central entities makes up 66% of overall UK public spend.

Over the past 5 years, most of the Scottish Government's contract awards have been in business services, IT services and research and development.

Relevant CPV codes

73000000 · Research and development services and related consultancy services
73110000 · Research services

Decision makers

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