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Contract Award Notice

Longitudinal Study of Debt Advice

  • First published: 17 April 2024
  • Last modified: 17 April 2024
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Contents

Summary

OCID:
ocds-h6vhtk-03f8f5
Published by:
Money and Pensions Service
Authority ID:
AA78892
Publication date:
17 April 2024
Deadline date:
-
Notice type:
Contract Award Notice
Has documents:
No
Has SPD:
No
Has Carbon Reduction Plan:
N/A

Abstract

MaPS published the results from a two-year quantitative pilot longitudinal study (PLS) of debt advice in October 2022. The pilot has demonstrated solid evidence that doing a large-scale longitudinal study successfully is feasible and likely to produce valuable insight. <br/><br/>Given the encouraging results, MaPS wants to undertake a two-phase quantitative longitudinal study to measure the impact of debt advice on client outcomes. The design includes a randomised encouragement component by using a stratified random process to create a counterfactual group, where a treatment group is encouraged to seek debt advice, and a control group is not.<br/><br/>There are two main changes from the PLS. 1) The criteria used by MaPS to define people in need of debt advice have changed. From previous surveys, we estimate that the old and new definitions of people in need of advice will provide a similar eligibility rate but that will be tested in the first phase of the study. 2) We have a new design and structure to be used for the randomise encouragement component. Also, to be tested and improved in the development phase.

Full notice text

Contract award notice

Results of the procurement procedure

Section I: Contracting entity

I.1) Name and addresses

MONEY AND PENSIONS SERVICE

138 Cauldwell Street

Bedford

MK42 9AP

UK

Contact person: Carol Hilaire

Telephone: +44 2081324012

E-mail: carol.hilaire@maps.org.uk

NUTS: UKH2

Internet address(es)

Main address: https://maps.org.uk/en

Address of the buyer profile: https://maps.org.uk/en

I.4) Type of the contracting authority

Body governed by public law

I.5) Main activity

Other: Money and Pension Guidance

Section II: Object

II.1) Scope of the procurement

II.1.1) Title

Longitudinal Study of Debt Advice

II.1.2) Main CPV code

73110000

 

II.1.3) Type of contract

Services

II.1.4) Short description

MaPS published the results from a two-year quantitative pilot longitudinal study (PLS) of debt advice in October 2022. The pilot has demonstrated solid evidence that doing a large-scale longitudinal study successfully is feasible and likely to produce valuable insight. <br/><br/>Given the encouraging results, MaPS wants to undertake a two-phase quantitative longitudinal study to measure the impact of debt advice on client outcomes. The design includes a randomised encouragement component by using a stratified random process to create a counterfactual group, where a treatment group is encouraged to seek debt advice, and a control group is not.<br/><br/>There are two main changes from the PLS. 1) The criteria used by MaPS to define people in need of debt advice have changed. From previous surveys, we estimate that the old and new definitions of people in need of advice will provide a similar eligibility rate but that will be tested in the first phase of the study. 2) We have a new design and structure to be used for the randomise encouragement component. Also, to be tested and improved in the development phase.

II.1.6) Information about lots

This contract is divided into lots: No

II.1.7) Total value of the procurement

Value excluding VAT: 1 250 000.00  GBP

II.2) Description

II.2.3) Place of performance

NUTS code:

UKH2

II.2.4) Description of the procurement

High-level objectives are the following:<br/><br/>Phase 1<br/><br/>• to successfully run the developing phase, recruit participants online in need of debt advice;<br/><br/>• create the experimental allocation (using a stratified random process);<br/><br/>• evaluate the encouragement design aimed at creating a robust counterfactual group; and<br/><br/>• calibrate the key parameters (such as eligibility, attrition and response rate) for the large scale longitudinal.<br/><br/>Phase 2<br/><br/>• to successfully run a large-scale randomised encouragement design longitudinal study;<br/><br/>• create the experimental allocation (using a stratified random process);<br/><br/>• successfully implement the encouragement design;<br/><br/>• to keep comparable and sizeable treatment and control groups during the duration of the project over four waves; and<br/><br/>• to measure the impact of debt advice on improving the outcomes of people.<br/><br/>Insight:<br/><br/>• to understand the causality of debt advice has with debt and wider financial well-being indicators within the debt journey over the short, medium and long term. This includes analysing complex journeys into and out of debt over time and the causes;<br/><br/>• to identify the immediate effects of receiving debt advice, the sustainability of the solutions and the long-term consequences of clients’ decisions; and<br/><br/>• to identify what works and what doesn't work to increase motivation for advice seeking behaviour, which is one of the most challenging objectives in the debt advice sector.

II.2.5) Award criteria

Price

II.2.11) Information about options

Options: Yes

Description of options:

1+1+1+1

II.2.13) Information about European Union funds

The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: No

Section IV: Procedure

IV.1) Description

IV.1.1) Type of procedure

Restricted procedure

IV.1.3) Information about a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system

The procurement involves the establishment of a framework agreement

IV.1.8) Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)

The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: No

IV.2) Administrative information

IV.2.1) Previous publication concerning this procedure

Notice number in the OJ S:

2023/S 000-025799

Section V: Award of contract

A contract/lot is awarded: Yes

V.2 Award of contract

V.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract

05/04/2024

V.2.2) Information about tenders

Number of tenders received: 3

Number of tenders received from SMEs: 3

The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators: No

V.2.3) Name and address of the contractor

IFF Research

5th Floor, St Magnus House, 3 Lower Thames Street, London

London

EC3 6HD

UK

NUTS: UKI31

Internet address(es)

URL: https://www.iffresearch.com/

The contractor is an SME: Yes

V.2.4) Information on value of the contract/lot (excluding VAT)

Initial estimated total value of the contract/lot:

Total value of the contract/lot: : 1 250 000.00  GBP

V.2.5) Information about subcontracting

Section VI: Complementary information

VI.4) Procedures for review

VI.4.1) Review body

Royal Courts of Justice

Strand,

London

WC2A 2LL

UK

Internet address(es)

URL: https://theroyalcourtsofjustice.com/

VI.4.2) Body responsible for mediation procedures

Money and Pensions Service

138 Cauldwell Street

Bedford

MK42 9AP

UK

E-mail: commercial@maps.org.uk

Internet address(es)

URL: https://maps.org.uk/en

VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice

16/04/2024

Coding

Commodity categories

ID Title Parent category
73110000 Research services Research and experimental development services

Delivery locations

ID Description
100 UK - All

Alert region restrictions

The buyer has restricted the alert for this notice to suppliers based in the following regions.

ID Description
There are no alert restrictions for this notice.

About the buyer

Main contact:
carol.hilaire@maps.org.uk
Admin contact:
N/a
Technical contact:
N/a
Other contact:
N/a

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