Cabinet Office
The Office of the Third Sector is seeking to commission feasibility and development work to recommend indicators and measures of a thriving local third sector, and of the quality of funding relationships and consultation between the sector and local statutory bodies.
The work will address both the choice of suitable indicators and measures, and the proposed methodology for measuring these, and contain specific proposals relating to the design of a bespoke survey of third sector organisations.
The first phase of this work will explore, evaluate and recommend possible indicators, and develop suitable questions and measures. A major part of this phase will be to recommend robust methodology for a survey of third sector organisations.
The second phase will be a small pilot survey of around 450 third sector organisations, to take forward and evaluate an agreed shortlist of measures, sampling registers and data collection methods.
Given the nature of the brief, we expect to appoint a multidisciplinary research team, with expertise in the following areas:
The deadline for proposals is Monday 13 August, and tender interviews will take place on Thursday 16 August.
For more information about the research and the tender, please contact baljit.gill@communities.gsi.gov.uk or marianne.law@communities.gsi.gov.uk.
Since first publishing the invitation to tender, we have made a number of changes to the structure and timing of deliverables and the procurement timetable: