Evaluation Tenders and Contracts

Programme evaluation and policy evaluation dominate, assessing whether a funded initiative delivered what it set out to do. Impact evaluation, measuring outcomes for the people or places a programme was meant to help, and economic evaluation, weighing cost against benefit, are the two most common specialisms within that.

Stotles brings together evaluation tenders and contracts from 100+ portals into one search, so you do not have to check each portal separately, and you can set alerts for new opportunities across the UK and Ireland.

If you want to search the government portals directly, Find a Tender carries higher-value contracts across the UK and Contracts Finder carries lower-value contracts in England. Public Contracts Scotland, Sell2Wales and eTendersNI cover Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, Ireland's eTenders covers Irish public bodies, and many councils, NHS bodies and housing associations publish on their own e-tendering portals such as ProContract. Government evaluation is often called off from the Crown Commercial Service research and insights dynamic purchasing system, and programmes appoint their own evaluation partners.

Evaluation tenders are scored on methodology, the team's evaluation and sector expertise, independence, data access and ethics, and price. Buyers expect a design that fits HM Treasury's Magenta Book guidance.

Evaluation work handling participant data must comply with UK data protection law and follow research ethics standards, and central government evaluation is expected to follow the Magenta Book. Tenders usually set minimum professional indemnity insurance, check financial standing and ask for evidence of similar evaluations at selection stage. Under the Procurement Act 2023, suppliers can be excluded for certain criminal convictions, insolvency or failure to pay tax.

Departments buy research and evaluation as call-offs from the CCS Research and Insights dynamic purchasing system and other frameworks, while programmes appoint their own evaluator, often an academic or consultancy team. Buyers include government departments, councils, combined authorities, NHS bodies, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and The National Lottery Community Fund.

Government departments and arm's-length bodies running a specific programme, combined authorities evaluating local initiatives, and research funders and catapults assessing the impact of an innovation programme commission most evaluation work. Most appoint an external evaluator specifically to keep the assessment independent of the team delivering the work.

Read programme business cases, funding agreements that require independent evaluation, monitoring and evaluation plans and expiry dates for existing evaluation partners, which show evaluation work coming due ahead of a notice. On Stotles you can track those signals and the buyers behind them, then follow a notice from pre-tender through to award.

79419000 (Evaluation consultancy services) is the dedicated code, but it sits inside a much broader consultancy grouping used for general management, financial and safety consultancy too.