Brussels, 28 July 2021 – A consortium of four organizations, including the boutique consultancyWhite Research, recently won the second framework contract to provide evaluation, monitoring, and feedback services for an interinstitutional group of fifteen EU agencies, led by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (EUROFOUND). The contract is worth 9.8 million euros.

The consortium, led by the consultancy Deloitte, includes the European Institute of Public Affairs (EIPA), the non-profit foundation Fondazione Brodolini and White Research. Each organization has specific areas of expertise that the EU agencies can call upon. White Research for example has rigorous data collection and analysis protocols and masters a wide range of advanced multivariate analysis techniques such as clustering, factoring, structural equation modelling, multilevel modelling, content analysis and others that can be used for evaluation purposes.  

The overall objective of the framework contract is to support the participating EU Agencies (see below for full list) in being compliant with their regulatory obligations for monitoring and evaluation. More specifically, the consortium’s tasks will be: 1) to provide evaluation and feedback services for the participating EU agencies and 2) to provide participating EU Agencies with support in the implementation of their respective evaluation tasks through the provision of externally sourced evaluation and feedback expert services.  

Four years 

The framework contract will start in August 2021 and is concluded for a period of 12 months. It will subsequently be renewed automatically up to three times, unless one of the parties receives formal notification to the contrary at least three months before the end of the ongoing duration. 

“We at White are extremely excited with this big win, our second framework contract win in recent months, both in collaboration with our friends at Deloitte. The consortium’s unique combination of strengths allows us to provide evaluation, monitoring and feedback services of the highest quality to the EU agencies participating in this multiple framework contract.” – Christian Hauschildt, Managing Director, White Research  

Participating Agencies: 

  • European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (EUROFOUND) based in Dublin, Ireland.  
  • European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) based in Bilbao, Spain.  
  • European Union Agency for the Operational Management of Large-Scale IT Systems in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (eu-LISA) based in Tallinn, Estonia. 
  • European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) based in Budapest, Hungary.
  • European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) based in Vienna, Austria. 
  • European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Training (CEPOL) based in Budapest, Hungary. 
  • European Fisheries Control Agency (EFCA) based in Vigo, Spain. 
  • Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC) based in Riga, Latvia. 
  • European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) based in Solna, Sweden (joining the framework contract as of 08/05/2022). 
  • European Asylum Support Office (EASO) based in Valetta, Malta. 
  • European Union Agency for Railways (ERA) based in Valenciennes, France.  
  • European Union Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) based in Ljubljana, Slovenia. 
  • European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) based in Vilnius, Lithuania. 
  • European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) based in Athens, Greece.  
  • European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) based in Frankfurt, Germany. 

About White Research (www.white-research.eu) 

White Research (White), established in 2012, is a boutique research and consultancy company headquartered in Brussels, Belgium with a satellite office in Thessaloniki, Greece. White offers research, public sector, business and EU-funding services to several Directorate-Generals (DGs) and agencies of the European Commission and to private clients, including one of the world’s biggest ICT companies. The company has a multidisciplinary team of twenty-three people, who, cumulatively, have management and implementing experience in over 70 EU-funded projects

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