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title: "Longitudinal Study on Debt Advice"
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current_stage: "Planning"
buyer: "MONEY AND PENSIONS SERVICE"
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# Longitudinal Study on Debt Advice

Buyer: MONEY AND PENSIONS SERVICE  
Current stage: Planning  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-03a1e0

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## Summary

The Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) is planning a procurement process for a "Longitudinal Study on Debt Advice" in the services industry category. The study aims to measure the impact of debt advice on client outcomes through a two-phase quantitative longitudinal study. MaPS will engage interested bidders in a market engagement session scheduled for 22nd February 2023. The estimated value of the contract is £1,500,000, with a future notice date set for 30th April 2023.

This tender presents an opportunity for businesses to participate in groundbreaking research on debt advice, focusing on understanding the causal relationship between debt advice and financial wellbeing indicators. Businesses with capabilities in research services and a commitment to long-term projects would be well-suited to compete in this procurement. The procurement stage is currently in the planning phase, with a focus on developing methodologies for the longitudinal study, which will provide valuable insights for the debt advice sector.

## Notice

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. The reports, including pilot methodology and test of the key parameters, can be found at this link Understanding the long-term impact of debt advice. 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. 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. MaPS will facilitate a session to engage interested bidders on this workstream. This will take place on 22nd February 2023 over MS Teams. To register your interest to attend this market engagement session please send an email to : commercial@maps.org.uk

### Lot Information

Lot 1

Longitudinal study on debt advice clients High-level objectives are the following: Phase 1 * to successfully run the developing phase, recruit participants online in need of debt advice; * create the experimental allocation (using a stratified random process); * evaluate the encouragement design aimed at creating a robust counterfactual group; and * calibrate the key parameters (such as eligibility, attrition and response rate) for the large scale longitudinal. Phase 2 * to successfully run a large-scale randomised encouragement design longitudinal study; * create the experimental allocation (using a stratified random process); * successfully implement the encouragement design; * to keep comparable and sizeable treatment and control groups during the duration of the project over four waves; and * to measure the impact of debt advice on improving the outcomes of people. Insight: * 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; * to identify the immediate effects of receiving debt advice, the sustainability of the solutions and the long-term consequences of clients' decisions; and * 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. Additional information: This is not a tender, this is a prior information notice for an upcoming opportunity.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/003077-2023 |
| Notice type | Planning Notice |
| Procurement type | Standard |
| Procurement category | Services |
| Procurement method | Not Specified |
| Procurement method details | Not specified |
| Tender suitability | Not specified |
| Awardee scale | Not specified |
| All stages | Planning |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 1 Feb 2023 |
| Submission deadline | Not specified |
| Future notice date | 29 Apr 2023 |
| Award date | Not specified |
| Contract period | Not specified |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | £1,500,000 |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | Not specified |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Planned |
| Lots status | Planned |
| Awards status | Not specified |
| Contracts status | Not specified |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | MONEY AND PENSIONS SERVICE |
| Locality | LONDON |
| Post town | Central London |
| Postcode | EC1N 2TD |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLI London |
| ITL 2 | TLI3 Inner London - West |
| ITL 3 | TLI36 Camden |
| Local authority | Camden |
| Electoral ward | Holborn & Covent Garden |
| Westminster constituency | Holborn and St Pancras |
| Delivery location | Not specified |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 73 - Research and development services and related consultancy services

### Codes

- 73110000 - Research services

## Release History

- 1 Feb 2023 at 11:24 - Planning - Planning Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/003077-2023

## Notice URLs

- https://maps.app.jaggaer.com/
- https://www.moneyhelper.org.uk/en

## Provenance

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