RFP QuestBeta
Awarded · ResultStage · contract

Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit Work Search Review Trial -Blended Channels

R&DCPV 73000000
Value£260k
Awarded15 Dec 2023
Published5 Mar 2024
RegionUK-wide
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£260ktotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£561k

This is a large award for Research & Development — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 20,405 valued Research & Development tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The aim of this project is to gather evidence on Universal Credit Intensive Work Search (IWS) claimant and staff views and experiences of video and telephone work search review appointments and face-to-face appointments reviews ("blended channels") for claimants in the treatment sites) compared to face-to-face appointments in control sites.

The research will help understand if the trial is being delivered according to the policy intent, and it will explore how the intervention works in practice and identify any recurrent operational issues.

It will also provide evidence to inform policy decisions about a future national expansion of the trial intervention

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It will also provide evidence to inform

It will also provide evidence to inform policy decisions about a future national expansion of the trial intervention.

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Stage
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