Stale Pre-tender

Whole Family Wellbeing Funding Year 3 and 4 evaluation

Details

Buyer: Scottish Government
Value: £200,000
Topic: Research and development services and related consultancy services
Published: 21 February 2025
Source: uk:public_contracts_scotland

Tender description

The Scottish Government is seeking to commission an evaluation of years 3 and 4 (2024-2026) of the implementation of the Scottish Government’s Whole Family Wellbeing Funding (WFWF) Programme. Lot 1: The Scottish Government is seeking to commission an evaluation of years 3 and 4 (2024-2026) of the implementation of the Scottish Government’s Whole Family Wellbeing Funding (WFWF) Programme. This evaluation will assess the extent to which the programme has achieved its intended impacts, provide analysis of the successes of and barriers to implementation, and inform on-going learning and policy development. This commission follows on from the year 1 evaluation conducted in 2022-23 and year 2 evaluation conducted in 2023-24. Information provided in response to this request will be used in the development of the procurement strategy. The proposed route to market will be a open procedure that will be published on PCS-T to provide an fair an open competition.. Invitation to Tender documentation is due for issue via PCS-T early April 2025 with an estimated contract start date of August 2025. The contract is expected to be for a period of 18 months with the option to extend for an additional two months.

Timeline

Completed: Pre-tender published21 February 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
73110000 · Research services
73210000 · Research consultancy services
79315000 · Social research services
79419000 · Evaluation consultancy services

Decision makers

Connect with the people behind this procurement.

Job title	Phone number	Work email
Head of Procurement	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@scottish-government.gov
Commercial Director	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@scottish-government.gov
Procurement Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@scottish-government.gov
Category Lead	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@scottish-government.gov
Senior Buyer	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@scottish-government.gov
Contracts Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@scottish-government.gov