Official UK procurement notice
The Walking and Cycling Index Residents’ Survey 2025
Authority: Sustrans
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionSustrans wishes to commission a city-wide residents’ travel behaviour "push-to-online" survey in up to 17 cities and areas across the UK.
The survey will gather data about walking, wheeling and cycling and travel behaviour, satisfaction and attitudes about a range of issues related to walking, wheeling and cycling in their city among a representative sample of residents. The successful contractor will design a research methodology and questionnaire tools compatible with the previous methodology and questionnaire, conduct the survey fieldwork, clean and analyse the data and return specified outputs to Sustrans for further analysis and modelling.
Sustrans intends to commission for one iteration of fieldwork in 2025.
Please see Invitation to Tender for further details.
CPV: Survey conduction services · Survey services
How this framework works
From the published notice- Places
- up to 1 suppliers · 2 bids received (2.0 per place) · 1 appointed (full)
- Framework period
- 10 mo from 6 Jan 2025
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1AwardedPublished value£700,000
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).
Published sub-criteria (6)
- Methodological merit: 20%
- Project Management: 15%
- Quality control: 10%
- Organisation, qualification and experience of staff assigned to performing the contract: 5%
- price: 40%
- Social Value: 10%
Published award criteria (6)
- Methodological merit: 20
- Project Management: 15
- Quality control: 10
- Organisation, qualification and experience of staff assigned to performing the contract: 5
- Social Value: 10
- Price: 40
- Suitability
The selection criteria can be seen in the Invitation to Tender documents.
- Staff
- Names and qualifications of delivery staff must be submitted
- Price carries 40 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 4 points. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.
- “The Walking and Cycling Index Residents’ Survey 2025” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, up to 1 suppliers, not a single contract.
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Awarded
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Framework agreement
- Who may use this agreement
- Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 30 Sept 2024, 09:37 BST
- Last source update
- 4 Mar 2025, 10:14 GMT
- Award evaluation window
- 18 Nov 2024 – …
- Authority reference
INDEX25- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-007764- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-04a3f2Find a Tender
Publisher note: Sustrans is not currently considered to be a ‘contracting authority’ under The Public Contracts Regulations 2015. Sustrans has opted to publish this notice on a voluntary basis and its intention is to comply voluntarily with the principles set out in the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 in this procurement: however, this does not bind Sustrans contractually in relation to the process. (SC Ref:792160)
How it was run
Official notice- Appointment period ends
- 18 Nov 2024, 12:00 GMT
- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bids opened
- 18 Nov 2024, 12:30 GMT
Timeline
18 Nov 2024 → 31 Oct 2025 · 5 dates- Admission / appointment period endsperiod end, not a bid countdown18 Nov 2024, 12:00 GMT
- Bids opened18 Nov 2024, 12:30 GMT
- Contract starts6 Jan 2025
- Notice published4 Mar 2025, 10:14 GMT
- Bids must remain valid until356 days ago31 Oct 2025, 23:59 GMT
Notice history
1 event · 3 releases on Find a Tender- Status changed to complete4 Mar 2025, 10:14 GMT
Published amendments (1)
ADDED FILE: The Walking and Cycling Index residents survey - Clarification Questions Log Questions and Answers log- clarification questions
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast1 suppliers are admitted to this framework without individual award values or dates, see the supplier list below.
Contracts
Contract 007764-2025-P15225-1
- Signed
- 27 Feb 2025
- Value
- £599,931
- Period
- … – 31 Oct 2025
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2bids · 2 electronic · 2 from abroad | 0 | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- Sherriff CourtReview body
Framework contractors & participating bidders
1 commercial party on the notice- National Centre for Social ResearchFramework contractor
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Economic and financial selection criteria
- Technical selection criteria