Published date: 27 March 2017

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


Closing: 14 February 2017

Contract summary

Industry

  • Research and development consultancy services - 73200000

  • Market and economic research; polling and statistics - 79300000

Location of contract

South East

Value of contract

£90,000

Procurement reference

FWRECR17017BEIS

Published date

27 March 2017

Closing date

14 February 2017

Contract start date

3 March 2017

Contract end date

31 March 2018

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Other:

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

A contractor(s) is being commissioned to conduct the Year 3 resurveys of respondents to the Year 2 survey. This contractor will undertake the surveys and produce fully annotated datasets. For year 3, separate surveys are being undertaken of businesses with 0 to 9 employees and those with 10 to 249 employees. The total achieved sample for year 3 is likely to be c. 6,000 SMEs.

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Award information

Awarded date

2 March 2017

Contract start date

3 March 2017

Contract end date

31 March 2018

Total value of contract

£78,082

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

The University of Warwick (Enterprise Research Centre)

Address

University House,
Kirby Corner Road,
Coventry,
CV4 8UW

Reference

None

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Contact name

Contracted Research

Address

Polaris House
North Star Avenue
Swindon
SN2 1ET
England

Telephone

01793 867005

Email

research@uksbs.co.uk

Website

www.uksbs.co.uk