Scope
Reference
COP29-2024
Description
The College of Policing Ltd (the Authority) aims to establish a comprehensive Research and Evaluation Framework Contract, encompassing the following key components:
• Scoping, development and review
• Evaluation
• Technical Expertise
• Evidence searching and synthesis
Commercial tool
Establishes an open framework
Total value (estimated)
- £10,000,000 excluding VAT
- £12,000,000 including VAT
Above the relevant threshold
Contract dates (estimated)
- 1 September 2025 to 31 August 2030
- 5 years
Main procurement category
Services
Contract locations
- UK - United Kingdom
Not the same for all lots
CPV classifications are shown in Lot sections, because they are not the same for all lots.
Lot 1. Scoping, Development and Review
Description
In this lot, we are looking for suppliers who can provide scoping and development capability that would include activities such as: feasibility testing, advice, preparatory or development work for evaluations, development of new and review of existing products, innovation generation and co-design of interventions and pilot evaluations.
Suppliers are expected to demonstrate experience in delivering scoping and development work in a policing or criminal justice environment and offer subject matter expertise in policing, crime reduction and public protection, specifically those subjects related to the key Government mission on Safer Streets.
This lot entails the provision of smaller scale scoping work including:
• Review and development work, co-design and innovation generation - working with policing and criminal justice stakeholders to review/improve existing products, design or develop new products and innovative interventions and evaluations.
• Initial research design and feasibility studies - exploring a theoretical approach to an intervention or its evaluation using the development of logic models and theories of change. Providing power calculations and developing plans for analysis in readiness for full scale evaluation.
• Pilot evaluations or other small-scale, preliminary studies conducted to evaluate the feasibility of an intervention or its evaluation. The purpose being to improve upon the study design prior to the conducting of a full-scale evaluation.
• Small Evaluations such as process tracing and contribution analysis to enable making causal statements about potential intervention impacts where there are a small number of heterogenous cases, or a counterfactual cannot be established.
Lot value (estimated)
- £2,500,000 excluding VAT
- £3,000,000 including VAT
Framework lot values may be shared with other lots
CPV classifications
- 73100000 - Research and experimental development services
- 73300000 - Design and execution of research and development
Same for all lots
Contract locations and contract dates are shown in the Scope section, because they are the same for all lots.
Lot 2. Evaluation
Description
Evaluation
In this lot, we are looking for suppliers who can provide an evaluation of the effectiveness of an intervention (impact evaluation) or an understanding of how an intervention was implemented (process evaluation), or a combination of the two approaches.
Suppliers are expected to be able to demonstrate experience in delivering large scale evaluations in a policing or criminal justice environment and offer subject matter expertise in policing, crime reduction and public protection, specifically those subjects related to the key Government mission on Safer Streets.
This lot entails the provision of evaluations such as:
• Quasi-experiments to empirically evaluate the causal impact of an intervention on a target population where random assignment of cases to treatment and control groups is not possible.
• Randomised controlled trial (RCTs) for empirical evaluation of the causal impact of an intervention on a target population, which uses random assignment of participants (to treatment and control groups) to control for factors outside of the intervention's conditions.
• Stepped-wedge designs, either as part of a quasi-experiment or RCT, for when an intervention is to be implemented universally but can only be delivered to groups of eligible recipients incrementally over time, meaning control conditions cannot be maintained for the duration of the experiment.
• Systems-wide evaluations that explore the systems that contribute to a problem or issue. The evaluations review the associated data and evidence, from both practice and research, to find a way for that system to work better to eradicate that problem or issue. The evaluations may include including system mapping, explorations of system dynamics, discrete event simulation modelling and other techniques.
• Other evaluations - such as natural experiments and implementation studies.
Lot value (estimated)
- £4,000,000 excluding VAT
- £4,800,000 including VAT
Framework lot values may be shared with other lots
CPV classifications
- 73110000 - Research services
- 73300000 - Design and execution of research and development
- 73400000 - Research and Development services on security and defence materials
Same for all lots
Contract locations and contract dates are shown in the Scope section, because they are the same for all lots.
Lot 3. Technical Expertise
Description
In this lot, we are looking for suppliers who can provide technical expertise in the field listed below.
Suppliers are expected to be able to demonstrate an understanding of policing and experience in applying these skills in a policing, criminal justice and public protection environment, specifically those subjects related to the key Government mission on Safer Streets.
• Qualitative and quantitative data collection - such as the design and use of surveys, developing sampling frameworks, conducting interviews, focus groups, workshops and observations. Fieldwork to support evaluations with data collection requirements.
• Qualitative data analysis skills- such as for example: content analysis, discourse analysis, grounded theory and interpretive phenomenological analysis.
• Quantitative data analysis skills - skills such as use of and validation AI or predictive algorithms to analyse big data, advanced statistical methods such as non-parametric tests and Bayesian approaches and complex data visualisation.
• Behavioural science expertise for applied settings that can help develop interventions to promote behaviour change among practitioners.
• Economic appraisal approaches including cost-benefit and cost-consequence analysis, cost estimation, productivity assessments and value for money assessments.
• Implementation science methods and strategies that facilitate the uptake of evidence - -based practice and research into regular use by practitioners.
Lot value (estimated)
- £2,500,000 excluding VAT
- £3,000,000 including VAT
Framework lot values may be shared with other lots
CPV classifications
- 72316000 - Data analysis services
- 73110000 - Research services
- 79311400 - Economic research services
- 79311410 - Economic impact assessment
- 79315000 - Social research services
Same for all lots
Contract locations and contract dates are shown in the Scope section, because they are the same for all lots.
Lot 4. Evidence searching and synthesis
Description
In this lot, we are looking for suppliers who can provide a range of literature review and synthesis methodologies as outlined below.
Suppliers are expected to be able to demonstrate experience in delivering literature synthesis in relation to policing or criminal justice subjects and offer subject matter expertise in policing, crime reduction and public protection, specifically those subjects related to the key Government mission on Safer Streets.
• Rapid evidence assessments (REAs) that provide more structured and rigorous literature searches and quality assessments of the evidence than traditional literature reviews but are not as exhaustive as systematic reviews.
• Systematic reviews that require equivalent standards of rigour to primary research, using explicit and transparent methods to ensure the review is accountable, replicable and updateable.
• Meta-analyses using statistical techniques for combining results from different studies to obtain a quantitative estimate of the overall effect of a particular intervention or variable on a defined outcome.
• Systematic searching - developing search strings for use with academic databases, grey literature and other relevant searches, developing and applying screening criteria, audit trails for searches and screening, and enabling replicability for future scrutiny or updates to reviews
• Evidence gap maps- coding the results of searches into interactive visual presentations of evidence gaps
Lot value (estimated)
- £1,000,000 excluding VAT
- £1,200,000 including VAT
Framework lot values may be shared with other lots
CPV classifications
- 72316000 - Data analysis services
- 73110000 - Research services
- 73120000 - Experimental development services
- 73300000 - Design and execution of research and development
Same for all lots
Contract locations and contract dates are shown in the Scope section, because they are the same for all lots.
Framework
Open framework scheme end date (estimated)
31 August 2030
Maximum number of suppliers
30
Further information about fees
No fee applicable
Framework operation description
Prices are determined by way of a Framework Rate Card for each Lot.
Contracts can be awarded either via Direct Award - if the Value of the Requirement is below £ 30K including VAT or via further competition if the value of the of the requirement is above £30K including VAT.
Award method when using the framework
Either with or without competition
Contracting authorities that may use the framework
Establishing party only
Participation
Particular suitability
Lot 1. Scoping, Development and Review
Lot 2. Evaluation
Lot 3. Technical Expertise
Lot 4. Evidence searching and synthesis
- Small and medium-sized enterprises (SME)
- Voluntary, community and social enterprises (VCSE)
Submission
Publication date of tender notice (estimated)
30 May 2025
Enquiry deadline
18 June 2025, 4:00pm
Tender submission deadline
4 July 2025, 4:00pm
Submission address and any special instructions
Tenders may be submitted electronically
Yes
Languages that may be used for submission
English
Award decision date (estimated)
28 July 2025
Award criteria
| Name | Type | Weighting |
|---|---|---|
| Technical Ability/Quality | Quality | 100% |
Procedure
Procedure type
Open procedure
Contracting authority
COLLEGE OF POLICING LIMITED
- Companies House: 08235199
- Public Procurement Organisation Number: PJNL-2763-PVHM
Rugby Building Leamington Road
Coventry
CV8 3EN
United Kingdom
Email: CPU.Mailbox@college.police.uk
Website: https://www.college.police.uk/
Region: UKG13 - Warwickshire
Organisation type: Public authority - central government