Competition with a shortlist
Competitive procedure with a selection stage: suppliers were shortlisted before being invited to bid.
Key facts
- Buyer
- Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs · Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions
- Supplier
- Verian Group UK Ltd
- Value
- £49,777
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Sector
- Business services · Social research services (CPV 79315000)
- Region
- London
- Official notice
- View on Contracts Finder
- Timeline
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- Contract date13 Feb 2025
- Published28 Mar 2025Published 43 days after the contract date
Description
This experiment is part of our Choice Architecture Test (CAT) series. We have already conducted two tests, CAT 1 and CAT 2, with a third (CAT 3) and fourth (CAT 4) in progress. This will be our fifth test (CAT 5). • CAT 1: tested the effect of defaults on a hypothetical Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) application. Results showed a statistically significant increase in the environmental quality of the agreement generated through defaults compared to the current SFI application design. • CAT 2: tested the effect of defaults and guided selection on a hypothetical Countryside Stewardship (CS) mid-tier application. Results for CAT 2 also showed defaults being effective. Compared to the current CS mid-tier design & some aspects of guided selection tested during the experiment, defaults led to more spatially targeted actions being chosen (the primary outcome of the experiment) by farmers, that might indicate higher quality environmental agreements . • CAT 3: will test the effect of geosp…
About the supplier
Verian Group UK Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 13663077).