VRU Families Strand Evaluation Programme

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1 year ago

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1 year ago

Description

VRU's Families Strand Evaluation Programmes

The VRU is seeking to procure an evaluation partner for the following programmes.

Lot 1 - Strengthening Fathers Pilot Evaluation Partner 
Lot 1, to conduct a process and impact evaluation of 2 lots for the Strengthening Fathers Programme.  The evaluation will highlight key learning and promising practice to help drive wider commissioning strategy and improve outcomes for fathers/male caregivers. Please see service specification for further details of SFP and the evaluation partner requirements. 

Total contract value for Lot1 is £75,000 for 20 months.

Lot 2 - Parent Carer Champion Network Evaluation Partner
Lot 2, to conduct a process focused evaluation of the Parent Carer Champion Network (PCCN) to assess the aims, processes, challenges, barriers and benefits of the PCCNs. The evaluation will highlight key learning and promising practice to help drive improvements for a new iteration of the PCCN, with a particular focus on improving and embedding robust performance monitoring and sharing best practice with the VSCO delivery partners. Please see service specification for further details of PPCN and the PCCN evaluation partner requirements.
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Total contract value for Lot 2 is  £75,000 for 10 months.

Further information can be found in the bidder's packs. 

If you have any clarification questions about Lot 1 or Lot 2, please email [email protected] and use the subject name when making your request. The deadline for Clarification questions is 16th January 2024. 

If you would like a bidder pack, please email [email protected]
The deadline for submissions in 25th January 2024 @ 12noon.

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