Other community, social and personal services

Tender description

The Big Lottery Fund is seeking a service provider(s) to support the Fund's grant beneficiaries with the Phase 3 Learning and Development of the Headstart Programme. The services required have been broken down into lots as follows: Lot 1 — Generating and facilitating the learning: i. Collation, analysis and interpretation of quantitative information collected by the individual partnerships as per the Common Measurement Framework and comparison as and when appropriate / relevant across the partnerships ii. Provision of advice and guidance to individual partnerships and across partnerships on relevant counter-factuals iii. Qualitative review of the local implementation of HeadStart and collation, analysis and interpretation of data for the individual partnerships and comparison as and when appropriate / relevant across the partnerships. iv. Regular review of evidence base in the sector and sharing with partnerships. v. Coordination and facilitation of cross-partnership learning events (2/year for each year of the contract). vi. Coordination and facilitation of dissemination of learning beyond HeadStart (following each of the cross-partnership learning events) with the view of improving delivery of services to young people. Lot 2 — Capability building. i. Support the strengthening of the capacity and capability of individual partnerships to collect, collate and interpret relevant data as per the Common Measurement Framework and implement improvements to the programme as a result. Lot 3 — Value for money. i. Facilitate the development of a common tool to assess HeadStart's Value for Money, using similar principles and a similar approach to the development of the Common Measurement Framework and support the partnerships with its implementation. Lot 4 — Summative evaluations of individual programme elements. i. Execute a number of summative evaluations of individual programme elements. Bidders are welcome to apply for 1 or more or all lots.