# Test Beds National Evaluation Delivery Partner

> Contract award record from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: NHS COMMISSIONING BOARD
- Contract winner: [Frontier Economics Ltd](/contract-winners/frontier-economics/public-sector-contract-awards)
- Award value: £329,485
- Tender value: £329,485
- Award date: 1 December 2016
- Published: 20 January 2017
- Contract start: 5 December 2016
- Contract end: 31 March 2018
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: 761bd561-92c3-44ef-8765-5c5a458761f2-126397
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-cee5d83a-97aa-41cc-8e82-9e20cd911352

## Description

Contract awarded to appoint a national evaluation delivery partner organisation for the Test Bed Programme, to provide support, advice and quality assurance of the local evaluations, as well as developing a national evaluation framework that could be used for evaluating future innovations\. The two \(2\) main deliverables for this work will be: 1\. A national evaluation framework that can be used for future evaluation of digital innovations\. This shall include the development of a set of minimum standards for the local Test Beds evaluations, and analysis and development of regular \(quarterly\) reports on the early results from all sites; and 2\. Support, advice and quality assurance of the local evaluations, with a particular focus on ensuring the delivery of robust economic evaluations within each site\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/761bd561-92c3-44ef-8765-5c5a458761f2-126397)