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Awarded · ResultStage · contract

Department for Education

Communications Quantitative Research

R&DCPV 73110000
Value£2.0m
Awarded13 Mar 2020
Published16 Oct 2020
RegionUK-wide
Outcome — awarded

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

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£2.0mtotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£2.2m

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 Department for Education (DfE) is responsible for children's services and education in England, including early years, children's social care, schools, higher and further education policy, apprenticeships and wider skills.

Our ambitious goal is to provide world-class education, training and care for everyone, whatever their background.

The DfE Communications Directorate contributes to this ambition by driving changes in awareness, attitudes and behaviours through effective communication with multiple external audiences, such as parents, teachers, school leaders and governors, children's social workers, businesses, and young people.

Our work cuts across all areas related to DfE strategic priorities, including post-16 and skills development, schools, and children's safety and wellbeing.

Insight and evaluation are at the heart of all government communications.

The Government Communication Service (GCS) advocates the use of robust audience insight to ensure communications are relevant, meaningful and effective.

An in-depth understanding of our key audiences (including their attitudes, habits and preferences) is integral to identifying the role for communications as a lever for change and the design and implementation of effective communications strategies.

It is also vital that we evaluate our communications to understand what is and what is not working, and learn from that to improve effectiveness.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

The Department for Education (DfE) is responsible

The Department for Education (DfE) is responsible for children's services and education in England, including early years, children's social care, schools, higher and further education policy, apprenticeships and wider skills.

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Our ambitious goal is to provide world-class

Our ambitious goal is to provide world-class education, training and care for everyone, whatever their background.

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The Government Communication Service (GCS) advocates

The Government Communication Service (GCS) advocates the use of robust audience insight to ensure communications are relevant, meaningful and effective.

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The gates

What this notice demands of you

1 named, none in explicit obligation language. Each one is quoted from the notice.

ApprenticeshipsPolicies & commitments
The Department for Education (DfE) is responsible for children's services and education in England, including early years, children's social care, schools, higher and further education policy, apprenticeships and wider skills.

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