Tender

Customer Insight Panel Community Partner

PLACES FOR PEOPLE

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Tender

21 Feb 2025 at 14:05

Summary of the contracting process

Places for People, located in Preston, United Kingdom, is seeking to appoint a partner for the development and delivery of a Customer Insight Panel Community. This open tender falls under the services category, specifically research consultancy services (CPV code 73210000). The procurement process is currently at the tender stage, with the submission deadline set for 28th March 2025. The contract, valued at £450,000, aims to incorporate all functions within the organisation and future growth while ensuring regulatory compliance and governance standards. The active contract period will last for 1080 days from the award date.

This tender provides an excellent opportunity for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) specialized in research consultancy with a focus on customer insight and community engagement. Businesses with strong capabilities in both digital and traditional market research techniques, and those capable of delivering strategic, real-time insights, would be well-suited to compete for this contract. The successful bidder will help Places for People innovate and drive performance by better understanding and predicting customer needs, thereby playing a crucial role in informing decision-making processes across the organisation.

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Notice Title

Customer Insight Panel Community Partner

Notice Description

Places for People are seeking to appoint a partner to develop and deliver a Customer Panel Community. We are seeking a partner who can offer one holistic function which can grow to incorporate all Places for People group functions and any future growth. The provider must meet current and future regulatory, compliance and governance standards. The development of the platform will enable us to innovate, measure and evaluate all activity through the lens of diverse customer groups to inform evidence-based decision making across the business. Places for People are seeking to establish a strong dialogue with customers embed our customer segmentation model, ensuring evidenced representation and inclusion.

Lot Information

Lot 1

Places for People are seeking to appoint a partner to develop and deliver a Customer Panel Community. We are seeking a partner who can offer one holistic function which can grow to incorporate all Places for People group functions and any future growth. The provider must meet current and future regulatory, compliance and governance standards. The development of the platform will enable us to innovate, measure and evaluate all activity through the lens of diverse customer groups to inform evidence-based decision making across the business. Places for People are seeking to establish a strong dialogue with customers embed our customer segmentation model, ensuring evidenced representation and inclusion. Background An effective insight team can help drive performance by ensuring that decisions are based on good understanding of customers' current, emergent and latent needs, and checking that customers' reasonable expectations are being met. The best insight teams are rigorous and objective and use both digital and traditional market research techniques. Delivery needs to keep its focus relevant to the business agenda and actively communicate results and implications to those developing and executing strategy. Review of the current capability has identified: Activity and data is sitting in silos which reduces the impact on the business. Current activity is passive and distanced from core operational teams. Strong internal relationships across the business and having a clear business partnering model in place is crucial in building credibility and value. Research and/or engagement is often delivered for singular purpose with little wider learning and connectivity - we need to step up and proactively drive the conversation with the rest of the organisation. The most powerful insight nearly always comes from collaboration across sources (data and qualitative methods). The current delivery doesn't allow for this to happen and we also don't have an adequate skill set to deliver qualitative information. We need strategic, commercial thinking that can impact at the highest levels. We need to move away from 'rear view mirror' led work to delivering information in real time and looking to lead, predict and influence the future. We need to proactively drive the customer agenda across the organisation, rather than only responding to briefs and relying on basic reports and analysis. We need to embed our existing Customer knowledge, particularly our segmentation to ensure all Customer needs are considered in decision making. Additional information: To respond to this opportunity please click here: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/respond/HG6B8F2Q59

Publication & Lifecycle

Open Contracting ID
ocds-h6vhtk-04e6b2
Publication Source
Find A Tender Service
Latest Notice
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/006785-2025
Current Stage
Tender
All Stages
Tender

Procurement Classification

Notice Type
Tender Notice
Procurement Type
Standard
Procurement Category
Services
Procurement Method
Open
Procurement Method Details
Open procedure
Tender Suitability
Not specified
Awardee Scale
Not specified

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

CPV Divisions

73 - Research and development services and related consultancy services


CPV Codes

73210000 - Research consultancy services

Notice Value(s)

Tender Value
£450,000 £100K-£500K
Lots Value
Not specified
Awards Value
Not specified
Contracts Value
Not specified

Notice Dates

Publication Date
21 Feb 20251 years ago
Submission Deadline
28 Mar 2025Expired
Future Notice Date
Not specified
Award Date
Not specified
Contract Period
Not specified - Not specified
Recurrence
Not specified

Notice Status

Tender Status
Active
Lots Status
Active
Awards Status
Not Specified
Contracts Status
Not Specified

Contracting Authority (Buyer)

Main Buyer
PLACES FOR PEOPLE
Contact Name
Lisa Gallacher
Contact Email
lisa.gallacher@placesforpeople.co.uk
Contact Phone
+44 1772897200

Buyer Location

Locality
PRESTON
Postcode
PR2 2YB
Post Town
Preston
Country
England

Major Region (ITL 1)
TLD North West (England)
Basic Region (ITL 2)
TLD4 Lancashire
Small Region (ITL 3)
TLD45 Mid Lancashire
Delivery Location
Not specified

Local Authority
Preston
Electoral Ward
Ashton
Westminster Constituency
Preston

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