Published date: 6 July 2015

Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.


Closing: 5 May 2015

Contract summary

Industry

  • Market and economic research; polling and statistics - 79300000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£0

Procurement reference

14_02_14

Published date

6 July 2015

Closing date

5 May 2015

Contract start date

16 June 2015

Contract end date

16 June 2019

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Restricted procedure

A two-stage procedure, where the first stage is used to select suppliers, who are then invited to bid in the second stage.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

The NHS Staff survey was implemented in full for the first time in the autumn of 2003 and has been repeatedevery year since then. Questionnaires are sent to nearly 560 000 staff throughout England each year.
The purpose of the NHS Staff Survey is to collect staff views and experiences of working in their local NHS trustand to provide information for deriving national and local performance indicators. Results from the survey areused by these NHS organisations to identify areas for improvement, registration, periodic review, Quality andRisk Profiles and national studies.
The Framework Suppliers provide the following Services:
- Providing practical support and advice for selecting a sample of staff in accordance with the specification setout by the Advice Centre;
- Printing questionnaires, covering letters, reminders etc.;
- Advising trusts on their pre-survey communication strategy;
- Distribution of survey materials, and handling receipt of questionnaires;
- Liaising with trusts about non-responses and reminders;
- Providing support and advice to ensure good response rates;
- Data entry, cleaning data and providing data to the Advice Centre by the required deadline in the specifiedformat (the Advice Centre will be responsible for providing basic standard reports of survey findings to NHStrusts).
The Survey Framework is supported by the NHS Staff Survey Advice Centre (Advice Centre). Working with theContracting Authority and with the independent NHS Staff Survey Improvement Board, this Advice Centre isresponsible for designing the surveys, preparing guidance and co-coordinating implementation of the surveys atthe local level.

Contracts will be let through the Framework by the Contracting Authority and/or those organisations detailed in section VI.3 of the Contract Notice. It is anticipated that each organisation will run 1 survey on an annual basis and it isexpected that there will be c 250 organisations letting contracts under the framework per annum.

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Award information

Awarded date

16 June 2015

Contract start date

16 June 2015

Contract end date

16 June 2019

Total value of contract

£0

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Suppliers are: Picker Institute Europe and Quality Health Limite

Address

Picker Institute Europe
Buxton Court
3 West Way
Oxford
OX2 OJB

and

Quality Health Limited
Unit 1 Holmewood Business Park
Chesterfield Road
Holmewood
Derbyshire
S42 5US

Reference

None

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Contact name

NHS England

Address

Quarry House
Quarry Hill
Leeds
LS2 7UE
England

Email

nhsengland.commercial@nhs.net