Evaluation consultancy services

Tender description

As part of our Inspiring Success Strategy https://ahdb.org.uk/corporate-strategies we aimed to more systematically assess the impact of our work and have put in place bottom-up programme level evaluations of all our levy-payer-facing activities. We are about to move into a new strategy period, however our approach to evaluation still applies. During the current strategy, we have identified approximately 65 programmes of work over the next 5 years, covering areas such as research, knowledge exchange, market intelligence and market development. These programmes of work are likely to contain several smaller projects and different work streams with activities that contribute towards the overall programme objectives. The success of each of these work programmes needs to be evaluated. Lot One: 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. Lot 2: 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? — Ii evidence reliable? — are any assumptions outlined realistic? — do you agree that the report/calculations are reasonable? Why?