Competition with a shortlist
Competitive procedure with a selection stage: suppliers were shortlisted before being invited to bid.
Key facts
- Buyer
- Money and Pensions Service · Arms Length body sponsored by the Department for Work and Pensions
- Supplier
- IFF Research Ltd SME
- Value
- £1,250,000
- Procedure
- Restricted procedure
- Sector
- Research & development · Research services (CPV 73110000)
- Region
- East of England
- Official notice
- 012374-2024 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date5 Apr 2024
- Published16 Apr 2024Published 11 days after the contract date
Description
High-level objectives are the following:<br/><br/>Phase 1<br/><br/>• to successfully run the developing phase, recruit participants online in need of debt advice;<br/><br/>• create the experimental allocation (using a stratified random process);<br/><br/>• evaluate the encouragement design aimed at creating a robust counterfactual group; and<br/><br/>• calibrate the key parameters (such as eligibility, attrition and response rate) for the large scale longitudinal.<br/><br/>Phase 2<br/><br/>• to successfully run a large-scale randomised encouragement design longitudinal study;<br/><br/>• create the experimental allocation (using a stratified random process);<br/><br/>• successfully implement the encouragement design;<br/><br/>• to keep comparable and sizeable treatment and control groups during the duration of the project over four waves; and<br/><br/>• to measure the impact of debt advice on improving the outcomes of people.<br/><br/>Insight:<br/><br/>• to understand the causality of …
About the supplier
IFF Research Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 00849983).