Competition with a shortlist
Competitive procedure with a selection stage: suppliers were shortlisted before being invited to bid.
Key facts
- Buyer
- Department for Education · Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions
- Supplier
- Ipsos (Market Research) Ltd
- Value
- £1,475,777
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Sector
- Research & development · Research and development services and related consultancy services (CPV 73000000)
- Region
- London
- Official notice
- View on Contracts Finder
- Timeline
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- Contract date18 Jun 2026
- Published30 Jun 2026Published 12 days after the contract date
Description
1.1. Department for Education referred to as 'the Authority' hereafter is looking for a supplier to provide a large-scale, mixed-methods implementation and process evaluation (IPE) and impact evaluation of the national rollout of free breakfast clubs in state-funded schools in England with primary-aged children on roll, assessing outcomes such as implementation fidelity, participation drivers, and programme impact on pupil wellbeing, attendance, academic engagement, and parental employment. The evaluations will run from 2026 to 2029, aligned with the national rollout of breakfast clubs.
About the supplier
Ipsos (Market Research) Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 00948470).