Awarded contract

Award of Analysis of Consultation and Engagement Activities for the Third Tackling Child Poverty ...

Details

Buyer: Scottish Government
Supplier(s): The Lines Between Ltd.
Value: £19,703
Topic: Research services
Published: 22 August 2025
Source: uk:public_contracts_scotland

Tender description

The Scottish Government (SG), on behalf of the Scottish Ministers wishes to commission an analysis of consultation engagement to inform the development of the third Tackling Child Poverty Delivery Plan. This third, and final, Delivery Plan will cover the period 2026-31 and will set out the measures that Scottish Ministers propose to take in meeting the child poverty targets – as set out in the Child Poverty (Scotland) Act 2017. Under the Act, Scottish Ministers have a duty to consult with a range of stakeholders as part of the development of the Plan.The specific requirement of this work is to provide the Scottish Government with timely, robust information on the wide range of views, ideas and options expressed through the consultation exercise. The findings will be used to inform policy development on the third Plan, and the final output will be published as an annex alongside it.The engagement and consultation analysis (this specification) aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the key ideas, issues and options presented through the engagement exercise.

Timeline

Completed: Award published22 August 2025
Current notice
Completed: Award date22 August 2025

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

73110000 · Research services
79315000 · Social research services

Decision makers

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