Published date: 16 September 2019

Last edited date: 16 September 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: 3 October 2019

Contract summary

Industry

  • Research services - 73110000

  • Research consultancy services - 73210000

  • Economic research services - 79311400

    • Economic impact assessment - 79311410

Location of contract

North East, North West, Yorkshire and the Humber, East Midlands, West Midlands, East of England, London, South East, South West, Scotland

Value of contract

£47,400

Procurement reference

TD2020-003

Published date

16 September 2019

Closing date

3 October 2019

Contract start date

9 December 2019

Contract end date

31 May 2020

Contract type

Not specified

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

Seafish wants to appoint an experienced researcher, consultant or consortium to deliver part of SF2040 Recommendation 16:

- Map skills, recruitment and retention needs and issues across the entire value chain and

- Review best practice with regards to training, skills development and workforce retention within the UK and overseas.

Tenders are invited to collect quantitative and qualitative data on seafood labour market intelligence (e.g. migration, labour force patterns, etc.) and conduct regional workshops and interviews as well as develop a survey in order to assess and review the seafood industry's:

1. recruitment and retention needs and issues
2. national and international best practice in training, skills development, and workforce retention
3. current training infrastructure to identify areas of improvement

The data collection, assessment and review will culminate in meaningful and feasible recommendations from net to plate based on the information and findings captured.

Seafish requires a consultant, researcher, agency, and/or consortium that will be able to deliver the following activities and outputs:

- Bespoke qualitative and quantitative research resulting in a tidy, easy to follow dataset in Excel format for future use by Seafish and other stakeholders

- Final report with an Executive Summary, Recommendations, Conclusion and Reference sections with clever and relevant infographics for easy digestion of data etc.

- Two stages of presentations to the Project Steering Committee

More information can be found in the attached invitation to tender document.

Before making the decision to bid for this tender, please note that the project is dependent upon external funding. Seafish intends to apply to the EMFF and as part of the process an invitation to tender is required. This project will not occur without external funding.


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About the buyer

Contact name

Kimberly Cullen

Address

18 Logie Mill
Edinburgh
EH74HS
Scotland

Email

Kimberly.Cullen@seafish.co.uk

Website

www.seafish.org