Open competition
Open procedure: the contract was advertised and any supplier could submit a bid.
Key facts
- Supplier
- Public First SME
- Value
- £81,500
- Procedure
- Open procedure (below threshold)
- Sector
- Business services · Social research services (CPV 79315000)
- Region
- London
- Official notice
- View on Contracts Finder
- Timeline
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- Contract date25 Sep 2024
- Published16 Dec 2024Published 82 days after the contract date
Description
The Social Mobility Commission (SMC) is interested in commissioning research to understand regional disparities and challenges in areas with poor mobility and prosperity. Our motivation stems from the need to understand the complex issues that keep some areas, and people, from thriving. State of the Nation 2023 (SoN23) shows very clear inequalities of mobility across the country, captured in our regional analysis of mobility rates and drivers. But the findings also show that descriptive statistics, even when split by protected characteristics and socio-economic background, cannot fully capture underlying causes. Every pattern has exceptions, and not every cause can be brought out by the data. Our current Index uses the best available data to construct regional indicators of early-life mobility outcomes, and of the drivers of mobility. The drivers of social mobility in our Index are there because there is evidence that they affect aggregate rates of social mobility at a national level.…
About the supplier
Public First: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 10149826).