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Focus group participant recruitment
Authority: Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation (Ofqual)
CPV: Market research services (79310000)
Published contract value£16,536Exc. VAT
Contract ends 31 Oct 2028
Awarded to Roots Research
Contract starts 1 Nov 2025
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe nature of the work that the appointed supplier will be required to support Ofqual with the recruitment of participants for focus groups and interviews. The supplier will need to be able to source participants to the specific requirements of the individual projects (see specification for details) and arrange meetings on Ofqual's behalf. They will not be expected to attend meetings or handle any data collected in the meetings.
Published procurement details
- Procedure
- Open procedure
- Buyer reference
- MT236732
- Category
- Services
- Tender status
- Complete
- Award status
- Active
- Suitable for SMEs
- Yes
- Suitable for voluntary, community and social enterprises
- Yes
- Tender deadline
- Procurement method
- Open
- Item 1: Delivery locations as published
- West Midlands, United Kingdom
Key dates
Published dates- Award decision30 Oct 2025
- Contract starts1 Nov 2025
- Notice published26 Feb 2026
- Contract ends31 Oct 2028
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
- Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation (Ofqual)Contracting authority
Suppliers named on the notice
- Roots ResearchSupplier
- Identifier
- 06659150 · GB-COH
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedSource record
- Source
- Contracts Finder
- Notice language
- en
- Release reference
- ocds-b5fd17-04cbe5d2-26a7-4387-94a3-e056f833777f-2026-02-26T17:45:07Z
- Published
- 26 Feb 2026
- Latest update
- 26 Feb 2026
- Procedure reference
- ocds-b5fd17-04cbe5d2-26a7-4387-94a3-e056f833777f
- Contract reference
- ocds-b5fd17-04cbe5d2-26a7-4387-94a3-e056f833777f-1