Award

The Walking and Cycling Index Residents' Survey 2025

SUSTRANS

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Award

04 Mar 2025 at 00:00

TenderUpdate

06 Nov 2024 at 00:00

Tender

30 Sep 2024 at 00:00

Summary of the contracting process

Sustrans, a UK-wide charity focused on sustainable transport, has awarded a contract for the 2025 Walking and Cycling Index Residents’ Survey. The contract encompasses a "push-to-online" survey to measure travel behaviour, satisfaction, and attitudes towards walking, wheeling, and cycling across up to 17 cities in the UK. This project, valued at £599,931 GBP, was initiated in the tender stage and successfully awarded to the National Centre for Social Research on 27th February 2025. The procurement followed an open procedure, aligning with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 voluntarily.

This tender offers significant business growth opportunities for companies specialising in survey methodologies, data analysis, and sustainable travel research. Businesses in the fields of social research and data collection are well-suited to compete, particularly larger firms given the scope and scale of the project. The focus on a thorough and compatible research methodology with previous surveys suggests a demand for established expertise and innovative approaches within the industry.

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Notice Title

The Walking and Cycling Index Residents' Survey 2025

Notice Description

Sustrans 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.

Lot Information

Lot 1

Sustrans 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. Each survey to secure at least 1,100 respondents. 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. Note we are procuring for a single supplier framework, and there may be variations in the number of cities/city regions. Please see Invitation to Tender for further details.. Note that this opportunity relates to work in 17 cities across the UK (including 8 cities in Scotland) and is not limited to Scotland. Note that the same opportunity will be published on Contracts Finder, Sell2Wales and Find a Tender.

Publication & Lifecycle

Open Contracting ID
ocds-r6ebe6-0000779005
Publication Source
Public Contracts Scotland
Latest Notice
https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=MAR525107
Current Stage
Award
All Stages
Tender, Award

Procurement Classification

Notice Type
OJEU - F3 - Contract Award Notice
Procurement Type
Framework
Procurement Category
Services
Procurement Method
Open
Procurement Method Details
Open procedure
Tender Suitability
Not specified
Awardee Scale
Large

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

CPV Divisions

79 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security


CPV Codes

79311000 - Survey services

79311200 - Survey conduction services

Notice Value(s)

Tender Value
£700,000 £500K-£1M
Lots Value
£700,000 £500K-£1M
Awards Value
Not specified
Contracts Value
£599,931 £500K-£1M

Notice Dates

Publication Date
4 Mar 202511 months ago
Submission Deadline
18 Nov 2024Expired
Future Notice Date
Not specified
Award Date
27 Feb 202512 months ago
Contract Period
6 Jan 2025 - 31 Oct 2025 6-12 months
Recurrence
Not specified

Notice Status

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

Contracting Authority (Buyer)

Main Buyer
SUSTRANS
Contact Name
Dunja Reed
Contact Email
monitoring@sustrans.org.uk
Contact Phone
+44 1179268893

Buyer Location

Locality
BRISTOL
Postcode
BS1 5DD
Post Town
Bristol
Country
England

Major Region (ITL 1)
TLK South West (England)
Basic Region (ITL 2)
TLK5 West of England
Small Region (ITL 3)
TLK51 Bristol, City of
Delivery Location
Not specified

Local Authority
Bristol, City of
Electoral Ward
Hotwells and Harbourside
Westminster Constituency
Bristol Central

Supplier Information

Number of Suppliers
1
Supplier Name

NATIONAL CENTRE FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH

Further Information

Notice Documents

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