Research, Studies & Evaluation tenders in United Kingdom

Who buys research, studies & evaluation in United Kingdom

These are the organisations with the most research, studies & evaluation notices open in United Kingdom right now. Buyers in this sector tend to repeat — following the few that award the work you do is usually more productive than watching the market as a whole.

• Historic England · 2
• Isle of Wight Council · 2
• JNCC SUPPORT CO · 2
• Newry, Mourne and Down District Council (NMD) · 2
• Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council · 2
• THE FINANCIAL REPORTING COUNCIL LIMITED · 2
• Coventry City Council · 1
• Department for Transport · 1

How they buy

UK public procurement is published centrally — Find a Tender for higher-value contracts and Contracts Finder for lower-value ones — alongside sectoral portals for the NHS, local authorities and devolved administrations. Framework agreements and dynamic purchasing systems account for a large share of spend, so much of the market is reached by getting onto a framework rather than by bidding for individual contracts.

Across the research, studies & evaluation notices we currently hold for United Kingdom, the most common form is the open tender or invitation to bid, followed by rfi. Each has its own rules — see RFP, RFQ and EOI compared and tendering procedures explained.

What qualifies you

Suppliers complete a standard selection questionnaire covering financial standing, insurance, health and safety, and relevant experience. Above-threshold procurements follow published procedures with defined standstill periods before award. Social value is a scored element in central government procurement, so a proposal that ignores it loses marks that are available to everyone.

Research and evaluation assignments are commissioned by UN agencies, development banks, bilateral donors and international NGOs, and are almost always awarded on quality-and-cost rather than price alone — commonly 70:30 or 80:20 in favour of the technical proposal. The decisive elements are the proposed methodology, the named team and the evaluator's independence from the programme being assessed. Expect to be asked for a sampling frame, an analysis plan, ethics and safeguarding arrangements for research with human subjects, and prior assignments of comparable scope. Terms of reference frequently name a specific framework — the OECD-DAC criteria for evaluations, or a donor's own results framework — and a proposal that ignores it loses marks that were freely available. Data ownership and publication rights normally sit with the commissioning agency; check whether you may cite the work later.

Before committing effort, it is worth running a deliberate bid/no-bid decision and checking your submission against the responsiveness checklist.

Open research, studies & evaluation tenders in United Kingdom