Published date: 11 October 2019

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


Closing: 5 September 2019

Contract summary

Industry

  • Research and development services and related consultancy services - 73000000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£10,000 to £20,000

Procurement reference

QW192012

Published date

11 October 2019

Closing date

5 September 2019

Contract start date

11 October 2019

Contract end date

31 December 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?

No

Description

Our requirement is for the analysis of responses to a public consultation on our proposals to revise Conditions of Recognition to include two reports (full analysis and summary report of a publishable standard) and a presentation of the findings.This is a joint consultation across three regulators, namely Qualifications Wales, CCEA Regulation and Ofqual.

Qualifications Wales is the contracting authority. CCEA Regulation and Ofqual are publishing this opportunity on their respective contract portals however the process will be managed by Qualifications Wales via Sell2Wales.

NOTE: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the Sell2Wales Web Site at https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=94723.

The buyer has indicated that it will accept electronic responses to this notice via the Postbox facility. A user guide is available at https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/sitehelp/help_guides.aspx.

Suppliers are advised to allow adequate time for uploading documents and to dispatch the electronic response well in advance of the closing time to avoid any last minute problems.

6.6 The Contractor will be required to:

-analyse consultation responses (both in Welsh and English ) submitted through the smart survey platform (downloaded and supplied to the Contractor by QW) and received in other forms, e.g. letters (between 30 October and 4 December 2019);

-provide a progress report on the analysis that has been undertaken so far, and highlighting any matters or questions required in order to complete the work as specified (by 27 November 2019);

-produce two reports:

 one will include the full analysis of the responses which is of sufficient detail and quality for the regulators to use to consider appropriate policy responses. (An initial draft to be submitted by 4 December and following comments from the Client, to submit the final report by 18 December);

 the second will be a summary of the findings that the Client will be able to publish as a report, or part of a report on the consultation responses. Each regulator will publish its own consultation response report drawing on the findings in the summary report.This report must be submitted as a Word document that is of publishable quality and needs to be submitted by 23 December; and

-make a presentation to the three regulators on the final analysis of the findings at the QW offices in Newport which will be to all three regulators (date to be coordinated by QW).

More information

Previous notice about this procurement

Analyse and Report Responses to a Public Consultation on Revisions to Conditions of Recognition

  • Opportunity
  • Published 8 August 2019

Links

Additional text

Qualifications Wales is the contracting authority. CCEA Regulation and Ofqual are publishing this opportunity on their respective contract portals however the process will be managed by Qualifications Wales via Sell2Wales (https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=AUG304803).

Award information

Awarded date

1 October 2019

Contract start date

11 October 2019

Contract end date

31 December 2019

Total value of contract

£0

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

STRATEGIC RESEARCH AND INSIGHT LTD

Address

4 Park Court Mews,Park Place
CARDIFF
South Glamorgan
CF10 3DQ
GB

Reference

Companies House number: 03104801

Supplier is SME?

Yes

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Contact name

Nasir Makda

Address

53-55 Butts
COVENTRY
CV13BH
England

Telephone

07770 211563

Email

nasir.makda@ofqual.gov.uk

Website

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ofqual