UKRI Evaluation Partner for the Healthy Ageing Challenge

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Healthy Ageing Challenge overview:

The Healthy Ageing Challenge is part of UKRI's Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (https://www.ukri.org/innovation/industrial-strategy-challenge-fund/) and was set up to support delivery of the Government's Ageing Society Grand Challenge. It encompasses a broad scope which offers opportunities for a wide range of industries and established sectors.

The aim of this challenge is to enable businesses, including social enterprises, to develop and deliver products,services and business models that will be adopted at scale which support people as they age. This will allow people to remain active, productive, independent and socially connected across generations for as long as possible.

UKRI is seeking to secure the services of service provider or a consortium of service providers to carry out the evaluation of its Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF) Healthy Ageing Challenge likely over a 4-year period, using a pre-existing shared measurement and learning framework.

There are three key aims for the service provider under this tender (not yet finalised):

1. Provide independent evaluation of the impact of the HA Challenge drawing on evidence from a number of areas.
2. To provide a process evaluation - including how UKRI has set up the programme, the portfolio of funded activities, and the governance model.
3. Provide support to the Trailblazers, and the Social, Behavioural and Design Research Programme (SBDRP) to help them create and provide a 'self-evaluation' plan and indicators showing progress and learnings, along with their own metrics and narrative of success of their funded activities.

Additional information: Supplier Day

This Prior Information Notice is being issued in order to undertake a market consultation exercise with regards to the current view of requirements detailed above. If you believe that this will be of interest to you and your organisation, please register your interest by sending an email to the following contact quoting CS19263 in the e-mail reference: Sophie Mumford at ProfessionalServices@uksbs.co.uk .

A key objective of the supplier engagement day is to test the 3 aims of the tender and review the anticipated budget for this requirement to ensure a successful outcome. In particular, to understand the options and cost benefits of different approaches to the impact evaluation and approaches for the large-scale Trailblazer projects specifically. Based on the outcome of the supplier engagement, the scope of the evaluation programme may be adapted to include any recommendations from the day.

By registering and attending you will be engaging in non-competitive dialogue which will enable UKRI to develop and assess the market's appetite, concerns, and views on formulation of its requirements.

The supplier engagement day will be held at: Hallam Room within Astor Court Hotel, 20 Hallam Street, Oxford Circus, London W1W 6JQ on Wednesday 5th February 2020 from 14:00 - 16:00.

Please register by 12:00 Monday 3rd February 2020 providing the names of the representatives attending to ProfessionalServices@uksbs.co.uk . Please note that this event is restricted to two representatives attending per supplier.

The format of the Supplier Day will be confirmed in advance and an agenda of the day will be provided. UKRI may consider the information and responses received as part of the preliminary market consultation to help inform the specification and further decision making in relation to the planning and conduct of the proposed procurement.

For the avoidance of doubt, this notice is not a Call for Competition; a Contract Notice will be issued as a call for competition. Not registering an interest shall not prevent any supplier participating in a future procurement, nor is it intended that any information supplied as part of the preliminary market consultation shall place any supplier at an advantage in a potential procurement process. Participation in preliminary market consultation will be at each supplier's own cost.