Evaluation consultancy services

Tender description

In the past, AHDB have been doing their own evaluation on certain programmes of work, but to be fully compliant and treat all outcomes in an impartial manner, this is now being procured outside of AHDB and the Market Intelligence (MI) team. Lot 1: Evaluation support: We intend to form a framework made up of more than one supplier; mini competitions will be held for each new piece of work and go out to all suppliers against this framework that have specified they can undertake work of that size Lot 2: Evaluation validation: We intend to award to more than one supplier; commission to the framework will be awarded to potentially a maximum of eight suppliers overall, with a maximum of four suppliers specialising in agricultural economics and four suppliers specialising in evaluation. Work will then be offered on a rotating basis to two suppliers per validation piece (one supplier of each specialism), dependant on availability of suppliers. AHDB wish to create a framework to retain suppliers that have the ability to evaluate the impact of our programmes of work. Work will include undertaking formative and summative evaluation of AHDB programmes of work, for instance: — producing independent evaluation reports; — data collection and/or analysis using suitable evaluation methods; — evaluation surveying; — cost benefit analysis for creation of return on investment figures or similar; — developing lessons learnt and recommendations for improvement; — working with programme leads, other AHDB staff and external stakeholders (collecting data, feedback etc.); — developing evaluation plans; — dissemination of evaluation findings to various audiences; — interim evaluation techniques such as process mapping. AHDB wish to create a framework to retain suppliers that can validate evaluation reports and return on investment calculations produced internally at AHDB. Work will include reading and analysing internally produced AHDB evaluation reports and/or return on investment calculations or similar, to provide scrutiny and suggestions for improvement, and advise on reliability of the reports. In effect validating the evaluation work we produce in house. We require two validators to validate each report, one with an evaluation specialism and one with an agricultural economics specialism. Work will be offered on a rotating basis, dependant on availability of suppliers. Where any supplier is able to offer both evaluation and agricultural economics specialisms, AHDB will decide which aspect the supplier should focus on for each validation piece; one individual may not do both the evaluation and economics validation of the same piece of work. Two individuals from the same company will not be selected to validate the same piece of work. The validation work will include completing a two page validation form for each report. This may include topics such as: — general questions on the report or return on investment calculation; — areas of critique; — how can the report/calculations be improved? — is evidence reliable? — are any assumptions outlined realistic? — do you agree that the report/calculations are reasonable? Why?