Provision of Covid-19 Business Support Meta-Evaluation

Description

Call-off procurement from RM6126 Framework Research and Insights for the Provision of Covid-19 Business Support Meta-Evaluation for HM Treasury. Lot 1: HMT is seeking insights on a number of questions about the impact and effectiveness of HMT’s Covid business support during the peak period for the UK Government’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic (March 2020 to March 2022). This period coincides with when widespread non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs), e.g., social distancing and self-isolation policies, were in place. This will form part of HMT’s work to capture and distil lessons from the experience of supporting businesses through the pandemic. This will require specialist research that covers the full range of business support schemes initiated by HMT and other government departments during that period. The Supplier will be able to draw upon evaluations (published or due to be published) on individual schemes or groups of schemes (for instance, local authority grants; business loan schemes) published by other departments and organisations such as Ipsos to provide a meta-evaluation answering the question “What lessons can we learn from supporting business in a crisis?”