Published date: 19 August 2019

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: 30 August 2019

Contract summary

Industry

  • Research services - 73110000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£1 to £30,000

Procurement reference

C16419

Published date

19 August 2019

Closing date

30 August 2019

Contract start date

10 September 2019

Contract end date

30 November 2019

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (below threshold)

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

This procedure can be used for procurements below the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes


Description

The Home Office seeks to procure research services to investigate responsible recruitment within the rubber manufacturing industry in Malaysia that produces rubber gloves and condoms bought by government supply-chains.

A tender is being launched on Monday 19th August through the Crown Commercial Service tenders portal: https://gpsesourcing.cabinetoffice.gov.uk.

This tender opportunity closes at 2pm on 30th August 2019.

In order to participate in this event:

1. Your organisation needs to be registered to the Crown Commercial Service portal. Instructions append the homepage detailed in the link.

2. Once registered, please express interest to be included in this opportunity by emailing Chris Penny (chris.penny1@homeoffice.gov.uk). Expressions of interest to participate will be accepted up until midday Friday 23rd August.

The maximum budget for this project is £30,000 ex VAT. Expressions of interest are welcome from organisations or consortia who can demonstrate some or all of the following: (i) expertise or direct access to expertise in the field of modern slavery and/ or responsible recruitment research; (ii) access to sufficient information/ data to enable a rapid response; (iii) access to existing interviews or user journey mapping insight into migrant worker journeys into the Malaysian rubber industry, or experience of conducting user research in Malaysia, ideally through partnership working with organisations representing the voice of migrant workers; and (iv) expertise in presenting the evidence used to arrive at conclusions that can be usable by non-academic audiences.


About the buyer

Contact name

Chris Penny

Address

2 Marsham Street
London
SW1P 4DF
England

Email

chris.penny1@homeoffice.gov.uk

Website

https://gpsesourcing.cabinetoffice.gov.uk