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DHSC: Qualitative Research: Insight Gathering and Strategic and Creative Development

Research and development services and related consultancy services
Research services
London (UKI32)
Published value
£4,000,000
Submission deadline 4 Apr 2025, 17:00 BST
Lots published1
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Tenderline Synopsis: Department of Health & Social Care: "DHSC: Qualitative Research: Insight Gathering and Strategic and Creative Development". Published status: active. Published value: £4,000,000. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 4 Apr 2025, 17:00 BST. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Contracting AuthorityDepartment of Health & Social CareScope & CategoriesNot publishedSubmission Window
Closed
4 Apr 2025, 17:00 BST
Submission GatewayDirect notice routeLegal Basis & RegimeStandard procurementEstimated Value (exc. VAT)£4,000,000
Bidder Intelligence · Authority Profile: Department of Health & Social Care
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Published history for Department of Health & Social Care. These figures describe retained records, not a forecast of bids or a measure of buyer bias.
Published-to-award variance
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Competition Density
4.6Bids / Report
37.5% of reports have one bid
Supplier ConcentrationNo estimate
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Payment Terms
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Coverage: 29 active published awards; 24 bid reports (which may be per lot). Supplier values exclude multi-supplier awards, frameworks and DPS, and use GBP only. They are published award values, not payments. Published-to-award variance compares single-lot, single-award, single-supplier GBP procedures with explicitly non-framework/non-DPS status; increases remain in the average. Unpublished data stays unknown. Awarded suppliers are winners, not all bidders.
Procedure terms
Contracting AuthorityDepartment of Health & Social Care
Procedure methodNot published
Procurement categoryNot published
Statusactive
Framework / DPSDynamic market
CompetitionNot published
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basisNot published
Tender period startsNot published
Clarification deadlineNot published
Electronic submissionNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Published7 Mar 2025, 17:54 GMT
Last source update7 Mar 2025, 17:54 GMT
Recurring procurementNo
ClassificationResearch and development services and related consultancy services, Research services
Delivery area
London (UKI32)
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-04eac6
What is being bought
DHSC: 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.
What changed
From the official release history
  1. Published value updated to £4,000,000
    7 Mar 2025, 17:54 GMT
  2. Status changed to active
    7 Mar 2025, 17:54 GMT
  3. Official notice release published
    7 Mar 2025, 17:54 GMT
  4. Submission deadline changed to 4 Apr 2025, 17:00 BST
    7 Mar 2025, 17:54 GMT
  5. Buyer information updated
    7 Mar 2025, 17:54 GMT
Lots and requirements (1)
Published by the contracting authority
  • Lot 1 · #1
    Individual lot title not published
    active
    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.
    Contract periodNot published
    EligibilityNot published
    Options / renewalNot published
Timeline
  1. Procedure published
    7 Mar 2025, 17:54 GMT
  2. Submission deadline
    4 Apr 2025, 17:00 BST
Commercial outcome and competition
AwardsNo award published
ContractsNo contract published
Bid statisticsNo aggregate bid statistics published
Buyer and organisations in this procedure

Department of Health & Social Care

Contracting authority GB-FTS-140113
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