Published date: 26 September 2022

Last edited date: 26 September 2022

Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.


Closing: 6 October 2022, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Research and development services and related consultancy services - 73000000

Location of contract

NP10 8XG

Value of contract

£40,000 to £50,000

Procurement reference

IT-333-3444-PU-23-0150

Published date

26 September 2022

Closing date

6 October 2022

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

15 November 2022

Contract end date

28 February 2023

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Other

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

The Office for National Statistics has been Measuring National Well-being since 2011. The framework itself, and the measures within, were established from a National debate in 2010 which generated 34,000 responses. These responses helped us develop the 10 areas of life captured in the framework. These are Personal Well-being, Our Relationships, Health, What we do, Where we live, Personal finance, Economy, Education and Skills, Governance and Environment. Covid-19 pandemic in itself has highlighted that these areas are still as important now as they were 12 years ago, but we would like to review the measures themselves to make sure they still reflect what is important to the public today. As part of a review programme for the next 6 months the Quality of Life team in the Analysis Hub would like to carry out some qualitative research with groups at risk of low well-being to make sure the measures are representative of all in society.

We would like focus groups with groups such as:
- LGBTQ+
- Ethnic minorities
- Those with poor health and/ or disabilities

If needed, these focus groups may be supplemented with depth interviews of one or two attendees of each focus group.

The Measures of National well-being cover the UK and therefore these focus groups should take part in each country of the UK and organisers should be mindful of well-being biases from composition of sex , age, socio-economic background and urban/ rural locality. Depending on composition of group it may be appropriate to run 1 - 2 focus groups with each group (totalling up to 6).

The research would need to be completed by 28th February 2023. With a summary research report of findings, outlining methods used, composition of sample and summary thematic findings.

This exercise is currently just to gauge interest - the publication of the procurement is subject to internal governance.

More information

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Additional text

If you are interested in this opportunity, please register for an account on https://in-tendhost.co.uk/ons/aspx/Home & search for the appropriate tender - Provision of Research to Support the National Wellbeing Framework. Please download the prior information notice/capability assessment and return via correspondence.

Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No

About the buyer

Contact name

Matthew Andrew

Address

Government Buildings
Cardiff Road
Newport
NP10 8XG
United Kingdom

Telephone

+44 1633580113

Email

matthew.andrew@ons.gov.uk