Expired contract

Student Information Review

Details

Buyer: Office for Students
Supplier(s): PUBLIC FIRST LIMITED
Value: £65,500
Duration: 9 months
Topic: Market and economic research; polling and statistics
Published: 6 June 2025
Source: uk:find_a_tender

Tender description

The purpose of this contract is to: a. Undertake high quality primary and secondary research into the quality, consistency and value to students of currently-available student information b. Produce high quality research reports setting out findings in a clear and accessible way c. Inform future policy development activity and evidence-based decision making into the student information infrastructure d. Secure the input and engagement of a range of relevant stakeholders in considering this research topic. ## Contract award

Timeline

Completed: Award published6 June 2025
Current notice
Completed: Award date6 June 2025
Completed: Contract expiry date28 February 2026

About the buyer

The Office for Students is the regulator of higher education in England, and buys as a central non-departmental public body with its own procurement team. Frameworks and dynamic purchasing systems from the Government Commercial Agency are used where appropriate.

A published procurement pipeline gives advance notice of future opportunities.

Over the past 5 years, most of the Office for Students's contract awards have been in business services, software and information systems and IT services.

Decision makers

Connect with the people behind this procurement.

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Head of Procurement	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@office-for-students.gov
Commercial Director	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@office-for-students.gov
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Senior Buyer	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@office-for-students.gov
Contracts Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@office-for-students.gov