Decision details

By appointing a suitable partner via a procurement exercise, we will be able to take suitable learning through the course of the project. A partner will provide an objective view of the project's pathway and opportunity for reflection and amendment to ensure key targets are met. The insight and metrics of evaluation are defined; however, this is not exclusive and if through the learning process other identifiers are highlighted which support a sustainable evolution of our approaches they can be incorporated.

Within Get Doncaster Moving (GDM) and the Local Delivery Pilot, the process learning is invaluable in ensuring the step changes taken are understood and lessons learnt along the way. Doncaster Future parks is looking at parks provision in its entirety and wishes to emulate GDM’s successes. By appointing a partner organisation to carry out monitoring and evaluation specifically for the Future parks the evaluation and learning will complement wider evaluation across Get Doncaster Moving, mirroring a techniques allowing comparison of outputs.

To carry out a tendering exercise to appoint a partner organisation to provide monitoring and evaluation of the entire Doncaster Future Parks (DFP) project. Until March 31st 2025.

Sport England funding is secured for this element of the project to take place as part of the DFP programme. The value of the procurement exercise is for £170,000.00; This is for the Support of the monitor and evaluator (50k), the development of a forward plan (10k) and opportunity to share our learning (10k) provide reports on parks usage data (£100k).

The contract will be engaged using the Local Funding Agreement delivery partner Terms and Conditions provided by Sport England currently used on existing partner contracts.

If this option is rejected it would not align with the funding. To find an alternative option at this stage would be time consuming and not supportive of the project.