Notice Information
Notice Title
DPH: Health and Care Experience Survey 2025-26
Notice Description
The Scottish Government has a requirement to place a contract with an external service provider for the provision of the Health and Care Experience Survey 2025. The scope of the contract will be to undertake the survey fieldwork and the transfer of a clean data set. The survey is being undertaken as part of the Scottish Government's Care Experience Programme and will be managed by Health and Social Care Analysis Division in the Scottish Government, in partnership with the Public Health Scotland (PHS).
Lot Information
Lot 1
The Scottish Government has a requirement to place a contract with an external service provider for the provision of the Health & Care Experience Survey 2025. Making healthcare more person centred lies at the heart of the NHS Scotland Quality Strategy ambitions. The Scottish Care Experience Survey Programme has been designed to support this ambition by giving people the opportunity to comment systematically on their experience of healthcare and its impact on their quality of life. The programme comprises a suite of surveys, including inpatient, health and care, maternity and cancer care. The Survey is a biennial postal survey which first ran in 2009. The Survey, which originally focused on primary care services, was expanded in 2013 to accommodate questions on social care and carers, reflecting the move towards health and social care integration in Scotland and further refined in 2017 to reflect new policy priorities. The 2025 survey content will be reviewed prior to the commencement of fieldwork to ensure that the survey questions are still relevant and meet user needs, however we are not anticipating any substantial changes from the 2023 survey. The scope of the contract will be to undertake the survey fieldwork and the transfer of a clean data set. The initial survey pack will include a letter with QR code providing a link to the online survey and an information leaflet in a range of languages. A reminder pack will be sent to people who had not responded to this initial letter after a couple of weeks. The reminder pack will include a reminder letter, an information leaflet and a paper copy of the questionnaire. This involves printing and posting the survey packs to around 500,000 to people registered with a GP practice in Scotland, which requires the services of an experienced survey contractor with specialist equipment. The survey contractor will be required to scan and capture the completed questionnaires, and carry out agreed validation checks on the data before securely transmitting a clean data set to the Scottish Government. There is no in-house facility to administer such a large volume of surveys. In order to encourage online completion of the Survey, the Supplier will be required to setup an accessible online version of the Survey and facilities to support other means of access to the Survey (including, but not limited to, telephone, textphone, Language Line service) and a telephone helpline.
Renewal: Initial duration will be 10 months with an option to extend the contract for an additional 12 months.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-r6ebe6-0000791445
- Publication Source
- Public Contracts Scotland
- Latest Notice
- https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=JUL534680
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Tender, Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- OJEU - F3 - Contract Award Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Open
- Procurement Method Details
- Open procedure
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- SME
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
73 - Research and development services and related consultancy services
79 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security
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- CPV Codes
73110000 - Research services
79300000 - Market and economic research; polling and statistics
79310000 - Market research services
79311000 - Survey services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £635,000 £500K-£1M
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- £615,000 £500K-£1M
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 15 Jul 20257 months ago
- Submission Deadline
- 8 Apr 2025Expired
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 11 Jun 20258 months ago
- Contract Period
- 1 Aug 2025 - 31 May 2026 6-12 months
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Complete
- Awards Status
- Not Specified
- Contracts Status
- Active
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT
- Contact Name
- Sophie Stark
- Contact Email
- brody.johnston@gov.scot
- Contact Phone
- +44 1312444000
Buyer Location
- Locality
- EDINBURGH
- Postcode
- EH6 6QQ
- Post Town
- Edinburgh
- Country
- Scotland
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLM Scotland
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLM1 East Central Scotland
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLM13 City of Edinburgh
- Delivery Location
- TLM Scotland
-
- Local Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Electoral Ward
- Leith
- Westminster Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith
Further Information
Notice Documents
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https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=MAR525078
DPH: Health and Care Experience Survey 2025-26 - The Scottish Government has a requirement to place a contract with an external service provider for the provision of the Health and Care Experience Survey 2025. The scope of the contract will be to undertake the survey fieldwork and the transfer of a clean data set. The survey is being undertaken as part of the Scottish Government's Care Experience Programme and will be managed by Health and Social Care Analysis Division in the Scottish Government, in partnership with the Public Health Scotland (PHS). -
https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=JUL534680
DPH: Health and Care Experience Survey 2025-26 - The Scottish Government has a requirement to place a contract with an external service provider for the provision of the Health and Care Experience Survey 2025. The scope of the contract will be to undertake the survey fieldwork and the transfer of a clean data set. The survey is being undertaken as part of the Scottish Government's Care Experience Programme and will be managed by Health and Social Care Analysis Division in the Scottish Government, in partnership with the Public Health Scotland (PHS).
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