The Chief Officer (Communities) agreed to
approve the decision to award the contract to undertake the
qualitative research for the project ‘Place-based data and
mitigating local impacts of migration’ to the Institute for
Public Policy Research (IPPR). Several bids were submitted for this
contract. IPPR achieved the highest scores in the desktop
evaluation and subsequent interviews, being awarded scores well
above the required minimum threshold. The contract will commence on
10.12.2018 and end on 31.03.2020.