Primary education services

Tender description

To launch a call for proposals and manage the delivery and evaluation of trials of evidence-based home learning environment support programmes in the North of England. The successful bidder will be responsible for: — launching a call for proposals, — assessing proposals and making recommendations to the Department for Education on which programmes to trial based on their analysis of the evidence base, — identifying potential trial areas and making recommendations to the Department for Education; procuring and managing sub-contracts with home learning environment support programmes and independent evaluators – including scoping out the design and delivery of randomised control trials, — brokering arrangements between providers of home learning environment support programmes, evaluators and trial areas; and, — publishing and disseminating the results of trials. The successful bidder will be responsible for the following activities: — launching a call for proposals for home learning environment support programmes, including working to generate proposals from well-evidenced and/or innovative interventions, — assessing proposals and shortlisting home learning environment support programmes to trial, — Identifying potential areas in the north of England that have the capacity to take part in the trial, — Procuring the delivery of randomised control trials of the programmes selected through the call for proposals, including identifying independent evaluators, and procuring and managing suitable contract agreements with programme providers and evaluators, — Overseeing the publication of trial results and ensuring that they are disseminated as widely as possible, Arrangements for the design and evaluation of trials will be subject to further competition via the call for proposals and processes to procure independent evaluators outlined above.