Official UK procurement notice
Contract for services to evaluate the Office for Students regulation of quality
Authority: Office for Students (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionWe are seeking a supplier with expertise in complex impact evaluation and an in-depth understanding of leading high quality academic provision to undertake an evaluation of the Office for Students (OfS) approach to regulating and driving up quality in English higher education providers. The initial work order will involve undertaking including 10 case studies and a sector-wide survey exploring how OfS activity influences providers’ attitudes and behaviours to providing high quality higher education experiences within a complex system. Future work orders will likely include further case studies and survey responses to explore any changes in providers’ approaches to quality, with the possibility of other primary data collection.
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CPV: Evaluation consultancy services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Lot PRN2371PlannedRenewal
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Past planning notice
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 12 Jun 2025, 14:05 BST
- Last source update
- 12 Jun 2025, 14:05 BST
- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-031938- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0547b6Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
12 Jun 2025 → 10 Sept 2025 · 4 dates- Planning notice published12 Jun 2025, 14:05 BST
- Market engagement25 Jun 2025, 00:59 BST
The OfS will be holding a briefing event. The briefing event will be held online (Microsoft Teams) from 11:00-12:00 on Tuesday 24 June 2025.
We recognise that the higher education sector is a highly diverse and nuanced space, which means that a successful evaluation is only possible with a combination of methodological and experiential expertise to uncover findings that enable us to see a nuanced picture of how well our quality regulation activities are working to increase high quality for students.
Through this event, we will bring together those with significant expertise in both areas, and hope that this facilitates suppliers in developing proposals of the highest quality. The event will introduce the specification and answer questions.
Following the event, we will distribute contact details with everyone who has shared details, to enable the formation of partnerships/collaborations for a proposal.
Suppliers will need to register to attend the event. Please follow this link to register : survey.officeforstudents.org.uk/s/OfS-briefing-event… ↗
- Tender notice expected28 Jun 2025, 00:59 BST
- Contract starts10 Sept 2025
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published12 Jun 2025, 14:05 BSTUK2
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender