Official UK procurement notice
DHSC: Qualitative Research: Insight Gathering and Strategic and Creative Development
Authority: Department of Health & Social Care (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionDHSC: Qualitative Research: Insight Gathering and Strategic and Creative Development. <br/>The Behavioural Programmes Unit (BPU) in the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) (the “Buyer”), are seeking to run a competitive tender and subsequent appointment to replace existing contracts which deliver qualitative research, insight, and evaluation. <br/>This is an exciting opportunity to become a strategic partner to the Buyer, providing vital qualitative insight to inform, design, target and evaluate high profile behaviour change programmes on issues such as mental health, smoking cessation, healthy eating, physical activity and early years development among others.
CPV: Research and development services and related consultancy services · Research services
How this dynamic market works
From the published notice- Type
- Dynamic market
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1The Department of Health and Social Care on behalf of the Secretary of State for…Published value£40,000
The Department of Health and Social Care on behalf of the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care (the “Authority”) is inviting tenders for the provision of Qualitative Research: Insight Gathering and Strategic & Creative Development in accordance with the Specification. This tender invitation has been done using the DPS framework.
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
- Economic & financial standing
Quality, Social value and Price will be assessed following the standard evaluation criteria provided in the ITT documents.<br/>Quality = 60%<br/>Social Value = 10%<br/>Price = 30%
- “DHSC: Qualitative Research: Insight Gathering and Strategic and…” is a dynamic market: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Restricted procedure
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Closed
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Dynamic market
- Who may use this agreement
- Any qualifying supplier may apply while the market is open
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 7 Mar 2025, 17:54 GMT
- Last source update
- 7 Mar 2025, 17:54 GMT
- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-008440- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-04eac6Find a Tender
How it was run
Official noticeTender documents are also served through a separate tool: https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome ↗
- Admission period ends
- 4 Apr 2025, 17:00 BST
- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission","written"}
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
7 Mar 2025 → 4 Apr 2025 · 4 dates- Invitations to tender expected7 Mar 2025
- Notice published7 Mar 2025, 17:54 GMT
- Admission / appointment period endsperiod end, not a bid countdown4 Apr 2025, 17:00 BST
- Bids must remain valid until4 Apr 2025, 23:59 BST
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- High CourtReview body
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.