Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-06-11
Buyer: Public Health England
Country: UK
Region: LONDON
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 71621000 | 75122000
Estimated value: 1900000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2016-07-15
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Specialist providers of evidence, interventions and evaluations using behavioural science, data science and/or public health science.
The aim of products in this lot is to supply an analysis of the literature, interventions or programmes or policy using behavioural frameworks and theories to identify gaps and opportunities for intervention (justification for use of the appropriate behavioural framework will be expected). This includes but is not limited to:
a. Behaviours: Identification of relevant behaviours and levels of behaviour (e.g. individual, inter-personal, organisational, system) to be changed, maintained, introduced or stopped.
b. Drivers of Behaviour: Identify the likely drivers of behaviour, using, for example, but not limited to, COM-B and the Theoretical Domains Framework. Use the Behaviour Change Technique Taxonomy-Version 1 or other appropriate frameworks to recommend techniques to change behaviour.
c. Biases or heuristics use a ‘behavioural economics’/‘behavioural insights’ approach to identify biases or heuristics influencing behaviour and recommend appropriate interventions (nudges) for behaviour change.
d. Intervention review: Programme/intervention review, using a range of methods and theories (such as, but not limited to, the Behaviour Change Wheel) to identify gaps and opportunities for intervention proposals.
The Contracting Authority intends to use an eTendering system in this procurement exercise and reserves the right to use a reverse auction.
The aim of this lot is to provide a robust intervention design that clearly describes the expected behavioural outcomes, target populations, and specified evidence/theory-based mechanism of action. This should explicitly consider intervention opportunities in physical, social and digital environments. It is also likely to include details such as the planned location, stakeholders, and resource requirements for implementation of the intervention. Deliverables likely to be expected in all commissioned work include, but not limited to:
— Specify the target audience and behaviour(s) based on recommendations of behavioural analyses and policy/programme priorities;
— Assess and present intervention options using criteria such as affordability, practicability, effectiveness and cost-effectiveness, acceptability, safety and equity.
— Consider the data requirement and identify data collection opportunities for programme/performance monitoring.
— Describe the theoretical underpinning for the selected behaviour change techniques such as but not limited to the behaviour change wheel;
— Use behavioural frameworks (such as, but not limited to, Com-B and East) to select potential behaviour change techniques;
The Contracting Authority intends to use an eTendering system in this procurement exercise and reserves the right to use a reverse auction.
Evaluation is defined as an objective process of understanding how a policy, service, intervention or strategy was implemented, what effects it had, for whom, how and why. The aim of products in this lot is to deliver either formative or summative evaluation including, but not limited to, evaluations of programmes, interventions and/or services. Products in this lot are likely to require expertise in evaluation methodology, the use of frameworks to provide an explanation for the observed effects, use of routinely collected datasets as well as development of evaluation specific indicators, and analytical capability (both quantitative and qualitative) to support mixed-methods approaches.

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