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# Population Polls for COVID-19 Response and Recovery

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/population-polls-for-covid-19-response-and-recovery-ocds-h6vhtk-02b0f2). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** The Executive Office: "Population Polls for COVID-19 Response and Recovery". Published status: complete. Published Value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [The Executive Office](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/the-executive-office-GB-FTS-3951)
- **Published Value:** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Public-opinion polling services
- **Delivery Location:** UKN
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **Awarded Value:** £201,400 (exc. VAT, 1 contract)
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-02b0f2`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/population-polls-for-covid-19-response-and-recovery-ocds-h6vhtk-02b0f2#tl-md)

## Description
The contract is required to meet unforeseen urgent need for reliable, robust polling services to provide data and analysis to support Northern Ireland in delivering  a robust, comprehensive and targeted Covid response and recovery strategy. There is immediate need and urgency to understand public behaviours and attitudes propelled by the relaxation of the legislative and enforcement powers through the Pathway out of Restrictions and there is compelling public interest to begin population polling twice a month on transmission-behaviours, attitudes, and beliefs.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** Not published

- **Delivery regions:** UKN

- **Description:** The service is for reliable, robust polling services to provide data and analysis to support Northern Ireland in delivering  a robust, comprehensive and targeted Covid response and recovery strategy. It will include commencement of population polling...

- **Options published:** yes

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (1)
- **Award:** Population Polls for COVID-19 Response and Recovery (active)
  - Award id: `010625-2021-DAC 74/21-1`
  - Supplier(s): **Ipsos MORI**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-6696`
  - Value: £201,400 † (exc. VAT)

> † value taken from the contract record; the award notice published none.

## Contracts (1)
- **Contract:** Population Polls for COVID-19 Response and Recovery (active)
  - Signed Value: £201,400
  - Signed Date: 13/05/2021

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F010625-2021)
- **Last Source Update:** 2021-05-14T08:16:14.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-28T23:32:55.865Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-02b0f2