Official UK procurement notice
Ethnographic Study – Healthy Streets
Authority: Birmingham City Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionBirmingham City Council (the Council) is seeking to appoint an organisation for the provision of Ethnographic Study – Healthy Streets to deliver an ethnographic research study exploring resident lived experience of the issue of car dependency in Birmingham.
The Public Health Built & Natural Environment team intends to commission a specialist organisation to undertake an ethnographic research study exploring residents’ lived experiences of car dependency in Birmingham. The study forms part of the wider Healthy Streets: Public Health Car Dependency Study and will support delivery of the Birmingham Transport Plan and Road Harm Reduction Strategy.
The research will explore how social, economic, environmental and street conditions influence travel choices, including barriers to walking, cycling and public transport. It will capture experiences across Birmingham’s diverse communities, including those experiencing transport related inequalities and poorer Healthy Streets outcomes.
The commissioned provider will undertake ethnographic research, including interviews, accompanied journeys and observational research, to develop in depth insights and participant case studies. Findings will inform the development and co-design of Healthy Streets interventions in Birmingham.
The contract for the services will commence 1st December 2026 and will be in place for a period of 4 months.
CPV: Economic research services · Market research services · Research and development consultancy services · Research and development services and related consultancy services · Research consultancy services · Research services · Social research services · Survey services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1Published value£41,667
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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).
Lot awarding rule: The award criteria carries a total weighting of 100%, this is split between the following sections: The overall weighting for the quality criteria is 70%. The overall weighting for the price criteria is 30% . For full details please refer to the procurement documents.
No conditions of participation were published on the notice; check the tender documents.
- Turnover usually expected at this size: about £83,333 (twice the annual value).
Turnover is an indicative market norm (≈2× annual value), not a published condition.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How Birmingham City Council buys Market research services (CPV 7931), and who usually turns up
Birmingham City Council’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Market research services (CPV 7931) →
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Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in West Midlands.
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Half of these awards were announced within 63 days of the bid deadline.
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1 bid28% / 0%
2–335% / 21%
4–621% / 14%
7+16% / 64%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
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Below estimate78% / 44%
Within ±2%22% / 50%
Above estimate0% / 6%
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Lot #1CPV 7931Published estimate£42k
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1 bid37%
2–328%
4–616%
7+19%
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Where the award price may land.
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Based on 13 comparable awards. Each lot reflects its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative.
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Middle 50%£37k–£41k
Estimate£42k
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A past supplier may not bid again.
| Supplier | This buyer’s earlier contract | Lot | Award value | Why listed |
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| HOUSING LIN LTDWorked for this buyer | PQ0685 - Supported Housing Needs Assessment and Local Supported Housing Strategyruns to Apr 2027 | — | £156k | Similar wording and category |
| Loconomy LtdWorked for this buyer | PQ0661 - Independent Tenant and Community Advice Service in Relation to The Druids Heath Regeneration Schemenotice published Apr 2026 | — | — | Similar wording and category |
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None is confirmed as a bidder.
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None is confirmed as a bidder.
| Supplier | Won in this category | Live contracts | Award vs estimate |
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| £60m132 awards in 36m · last this month | 31 live · £19m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | at estimate n=27 | |
| £9.8m42 awards in 36m · last this month | 15 live · £4.4m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | 6% below n=6 | |
| £2.9m15 awards in 36m · last 1 months ago | 7 live · £823k iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | 9% below n=5 | |
| £1.1m14 awards in 36m · last this month | 4 live · £244k iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | at estimate n=2 | |
| £23m21 awards in 36m · last 2 months ago | 7 live · £25m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | 4% below n=6 |
About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
- Two views, kept apart. The authority’s own track record and the wider market for the same kind of work sit side by side and are never mixed. Where the local picture is too thin, a figure widens to a broader market and says which one it used.
- Forecasts are labelled. The price forecast and its range, possible competitors and the earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards: not published facts, not win chances and not price advice. Official notices do not say who is bidding.
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Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Below threshold - open competition
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Open for tender
- Procurement threshold
- Below threshold
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 21 Oct 2026, 22:26 BST
- Last source update
- 21 Oct 2026, 22:26 BST
- Authority reference
PQ0690- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-099731- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-078d61Find a Tender
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Submit via In-tend- Requests to participate (first stage)
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- Tender submission deadline
- 6 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 29 Oct 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
This Request for Quotations is being issued using the Council's e-tendering system 'In-tend' and organisations must ensure that they are registered users. The procurement process will be managed using this system and therefore all bids must be submitted by Tenderers via the 'in-tend' system. www.in-tendhost.co.uk/birminghamcc ↗
Registration and use of in-tend is free. All correspondence for this procurement process must be via the in-tend correspondence function and you should not contact any individual directly either by email or by telephone. If you are already a registered user, you do not have to re-register. If you are unable to register with in-tend or are experiencing difficulties, please email the [email protected].
Deadline for request for quotation is noon on 6th November 2026
Timeline
21 Oct 2026 → 7 Dec 2026 · 4 dates- Tender notice publishedearlier today21 Oct 2026, 22:26 BST
- Today22 Oct 2026
- Clarification questions byin 7 days29 Oct 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Submission deadlinein 15 days6 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Contract startsin 46 days7 Dec 2026
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published21 Oct 2026, 22:26 BSTUK4
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Nothing awarded yet- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender