We require a monitoring service consisting of weekly brief, daily notices and reports on business where QW is directly mentioned or where there is a highly relevant debate or committee meeting to supplement the weekly brief.
We also require an annual perceptions audit of Members of the Senedd and profile rasing formal events for 30MSs plus briefing sessions.
The tender is required to renew/retender the framework agreement for three years to deliver the staff Survey for up to 120 QW employees, including the option to include workshop/focus groups to work with a small number of employees in discussing each year’s questions and or results. The survey is run around October each year with analysis and reporting completed in November.
QW runs a program of measuring and exploring confidence in qualifications and the qualification system. An important part of this program is an ongoing piece of qualitative research which explores stakeholder confidence in qualifications and the qualification system. The research was initiated in 2015 and since then seven waves have been conducted With the latest contract now complete, we are tendering for a similar piece of research. The research contract will run for five years and will include three waves of data collection. Data collection will take place approximately once every 18 months. There is an option to extend for a futher wave.
Following a tender exercise and a voluntary standstill, this Contract is awarded. The tender was to find individuals with the relevant subject knowledge and experience for specific subjects to work alongside our Approvals Team in the Approval process for these qualifications. Successful applicants have been awarded a three year Subject Expert Contract
The Contract is to deliver the annual staff Survey for up to 120 QW employees, including the option to include workshop/focus groups to work with a small number of employees in discussing each year's questions and or results. The survey is run around October each year with analysis and reporting completed in November.
We require a monitoring service consisting of weekly brief, daily notices and reports on business where QW is directly mentioned or where there is a highly relevant debate or committee meeting to supplement the weekly brief.
We also require an annual perceptions audit of Members of the Senedd and profile rasing formal events for 30MSs plus briefing sessions. Following a voluntary 8 working day standstill period the Contract was awarded.
QW runs a program of measuring and exploring confidence in qualifications and the qualification system. An important part of this program has been conducting an annual survey to provide QW with measurements of public confidence in non-degree qualifications in Wales . Beaufort previously ran this, but the Contract has expired. QW are changing to a biennual survey (every two years). The successful bidder will be required to deliver the survey, analyse responses and report on results.
Qualifications Wales conducts an annual monitoring programme focused on key qualifications, specifically the reformed GCSE National Qualifications, which are being introduced in two waves in September 2025 and September 2026. Subject Experts are engaged to support Qualifications Wales in monitoring the work of WJEC to ensure that assessments are produced, marked or moderated and awarded in a way that makes them effective in assessing what learners know, understand and can do, and that they are awarded as fairly as possible. This process was undertaken to select and award Contracts for experts in
• Core Cymraeg and Cymraeg Language and Literature
• English Literature and Language
• Mathematics and Numeracy
• Religious Studies
• Business
• Dance
• History
• Social Studies