📑PS21091 - An evaluation of methods to ascertain the comparative costs of research disciplines
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This contract was awarded by 🇬🇧 UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED for an amount of GBP 39,775 to 1 supplier. It was published on 2021-08-05 through not reported
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Buying entity🇬🇧 UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED Buying unitnot reported Publication date2021-08-05 Contest statusnot reported Description***THIS IS NOT A CALL FOR COMPETITION**** This contract has been awarded. Aims and Objectives The aim of this work is to: * Update and evaluate methods to calculate the relative costs of conducting research in different disciplines, to assist funding bodies to assess the comparative costs of research across disciplines. * The evaluation carried out in this project will allow funding bodies to decide on the optimal method for calculating the relative costs of research in different disciplines, ensuring that they are aware of the advantages and the methodological limitations of each method. This information will help to inform future allocations of institutional block-grant research funding. Objectives The objectives of the work are to: * Explore data sources that provide circumstantial or direct evidence for the relative costs of research, and run models of relative research costs based on the data. Review the available data that can be used to provide evidence on the relative costs of research across disciplines. Review the existing Transparent Approach to Costing (TRAC)-based methodology identifying alternative data sources to replace the data collected from universities, to produce up-to-date models of relative costs of research based on TRAC data. * Propose new methodologies based on new data sources. All methods and data sources should be compared to one another and to the existing methods, which drawon data from universities' HESA returns. * Produce a critical evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses of eachmethod, highlighting challenges for the method Reports will be for the internal use of the funding bodies and UKRI. It is not intended to publish the full text of this work.Awards
This award was granted to Jisc Services Ltd by UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED for an amount of GBP 39,775. The procurement process was conducted through Not available for the category of services. The award was granted on 2021-07-19. This is award number 1.
| Supplier | Amount | Award date | Award number |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇬🇧 Jisc Services Ltd | GBP 39,775 | 2021-07-19 | 1 |
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