Procurement and management of a trial of evidence-based home learning environment support programmes in the North of England

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 significant majority of the contract is to pay for the delivery and evaluation of trials, which will be subject to separate competitive processes, administered by the contract holder. We expect bidders to show how they will keep their management costs as low as possible to maximise funding for the trials themselves, while also making effective recommendations to DfE on which trials to take forward.