UK SBS FWRECR16018 Export services: Impact and qualitative evaluation

UKTI will appoint professional service designers to design and implement the pilots. The contractors commissioned to evaluate the pilots will be expected to work closely with them and UKTI project leads to inform how the pilots are designed and delivered ideally using RCTs and if not feasible an alternative robust impact evaluation to follow cross government guidance on impact evaluation as set out in the supplementary guidance to the Magenta Book and BIS Guidance on Evaluating the Impact of Interventions on Business .

The specification outlines the requirements for the design, development and delivery of an impact evaluation (ideally through RCT) and a qualitative evaluation (for the intention of informing practical recommendations for implementing best practice and addressing barriers). For this project contractor’s roles include:

We expect to have some comparable measures of outcomes and benefit cost ratios across the pilots.

Contractors need to be mindful of maximising the use of digital data collection techniques for all aspects of the formative and impact evaluation.

A pilot scheme advisory group formed by leading academics will be set up; contractors will be required to present their approaches to this panel for them to make a decision on the most appropriate impact evaluation method. Contractors will be expected to consider and take on board comments made by this advisory group.