Awarded contract

Provision of Education Workforce Modelling and Analysis

Details

Buyer: Scottish Government
Supplier(s): WPI Economics Limited
Value: £24,926.25
Topic: Research and development services and related consultancy services
Published: 2 October 2025
Source: uk:public_contracts_scotland

Tender description

The Scottish Government’s Learning Analysis Unit and Education Workforce Unit, on behalf of the Scottish Ministers, wish to commission analysis of the potential impact of population projections in Scotland over the next ten years on educational factors such as education workforce costs (including teachers and pupil support staff), pupil teacher ratios and teacher class contact time. This analysis will inform policy direction and decisions on education workforce planning and associated investment at both a national and local level. Lot 1: The Scottish Government’s Learning Analysis Unit and Education Workforce Unit, on behalf of the Scottish Ministers, wish to commission analysis of the potential impact of population projections in Scotland over the next ten years on educational factors such as education workforce costs (including teachers and pupil support staff), pupil teacher ratios and teacher class contact time. This analysis will inform policy direction and decisions on education workforce planning and associated investment at both a national and local level.

Timeline

Completed: Award date16 October 2023
Completed: Award published2 October 2025
Current notice

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
73100000 · Research and experimental development services
73110000 · Research services

Decision makers

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