Notice Information
Notice Title
Financial Lives Survey, Waves 5 to 7
Notice Description
This award notice is related to the appointment of suppliers for the delivery of specific<br/>services for the next three waves (Waves 5, 6 and 7) of the Financial Lives survey (FLS), with<br/>the contracts to take effect from March 2025. These three waves are expected to run from March 2025 to later in 2031.
Lot Information
Specialism A: Delivery of fieldwork and weighted data
This specialism is for the delivery of the main surveys (three in total, one per wave). Services will include:
* Random probability-based survey design, sampling, questionnaire structure and simulations, weighting and technical report
* Questionnaire review, survey script programming and testing
* Data collection (online and by telephone), recruitment, incentive distribution, fieldwork monitoring and safeguarding
* Data cleaning, validation and harmonisation
Biennial recontact surveys in May (one per wave, three in total) and short recontact surveys (two per wave, six in total), including:
* Recruitment and incentivisation
* Script programming and testing
* Data processing and weighting
* Data and data tables
* Methodological note
Production of data tables for the main surveys, including:
* Profiling data tables, circa 20 volumes per wave
* Tracker data tables, to identify statistically significant differences between waves
* Gross data tables, which present results in terms of millions of UK adults
* Amending the profiling and tracker tables for publication
Services will include but not be limited to the following:
* Authoring/ co-authoring reports for publication
* Producing/ supporting the production of slide decks for publication
* Support analysis and reporting for different teams at the FCA (not necessarily for publication)
Services will include but not be limited to the following:
* Cognitively testing new questions for each wave of the main survey
* Follow-up qualitative research with respondents from the main survey
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-0455e4
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/002400-2025
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Planning, Tender, Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- Planning Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Open
- Procurement Method Details
- Open procedure
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- Large, SME
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
79 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security
-
- CPV Codes
79310000 - Market research services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £5,550,000 £1M-£10M
- Lots Value
- £5,550,000 £1M-£10M
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- £6,020,000 £1M-£10M
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 23 Jan 20251 years ago
- Submission Deadline
- 27 Aug 2024Expired
- Future Notice Date
- 26 Jun 2024Expired
- Award Date
- 23 Dec 20241 years ago
- Contract Period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Cancelled
- Awards Status
- Active
- Contracts Status
- Active
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- FCA
- Contact Name
- FCA Procurement
- Contact Email
- fcaprocurement@fca.org.uk
- Contact Phone
- +44 8001116768
Buyer Location
- Locality
- LONDON
- Postcode
- E20 1JN
- Post Town
- East London
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLI London
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLI4 Inner London - East
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLI41 Hackney and Newham
- Delivery Location
- Not specified
-
- Local Authority
- Newham
- Electoral Ward
- Stratford Olympic Park
- Westminster Constituency
- Stratford and Bow
Further Information
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