Contract for Impact Evaluation of the OfS APP approach
Details
- Buyer
- Office for Students
- Supplier(s)
- Ecory's UK Ltd
- Value
- £334,588
- Duration
- 2 years
- Topic
- Evaluation consultancy services
- Published
- 9 March 2026
- Source
- uk:find_a_tender
Tender description
The access and participation plan (APP) is the main lever through which the OfS regulates equality of opportunity at the provider level. In the context of higher education, ‘equality of opportunity’ means that individuals are not hampered in accessing and succeeding in higher education as a result of their background or circumstances they cannot fairly influence. An APP is a strategic document that sets out how a provider will reduce the risks to equality of opportunity within their own context. The OfS wants to evaluate the long-term impact of the OfS’s APP approach and would like to appoint a single supplier to deliver a theory based evaluation. The aim of the evaluation is to understand whether the elements of the APP approach are effective in achieving change in provider behaviour and contributing to improving equality of opportunity for higher education students, from its initiation in 2018 to the 2023 reforms. ## Contract award
Timeline
- Completed: Award date24 February 2026
- Completed: Award published9 March 2026Current notice
- Next: Contract expiry date30 September 2027in 11 months
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
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| Contact name | Job title | Phone number | Work email |
|---|---|---|---|
| Head of Procurement | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@office-for-students.gov | |
| Commercial Director | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@office-for-students.gov | |
| Procurement Manager | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@office-for-students.gov | |
| Category Lead | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@office-for-students.gov | |
| Senior Buyer | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@office-for-students.gov | |
| Contracts Manager | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@office-for-students.gov |
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