Notice Information
Notice Title
P26-0002
Notice Description
Scottish Enterprise are seeking to put in place a contract with a provider for an online research platform which will enable us to support the work we do on Scottish Enterprise's key projects as well as improvements to our products and service delivery. The contract will be for 1 year with the option to extend for a further 2 x 12 months if required.
Lot Information
Lot 1
Scottish Enterprise are seeking to put in place a contract with a provider for an online research platform. Scottish Enterprise carry out a number of projects which maintain and improve on business as usual or are transforming the way that Scottish Enterprise delivers services to customers. We adopt a user centred design approach and follow the Digital First Service Standard from Scottish Government where required. To aid our work we use a variety of methodologies and software for the testing of websites, prototypes, static images, mobile sites, and published applications to better understand user behaviour. This includes face to face user research and online research activities. We need an online research platform which will enable us to support the work we do on Scottish Enterprise's key projects as well as improvements to our products and service delivery. The contract will be for 1 year with the option to extend for a further 2 x 12 months if required.. Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if they are in any of the situations referred to in Regulation 58 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015.
Renewal: The contract will be for an initial 12 months with the option to extend for a further 2 periods of 12 months each if required.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-r6ebe6-0000798348
- Publication Source
- Public Contracts Scotland
- Latest Notice
- https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=MAY529969
- Current Stage
- Tender
- All Stages
- Tender
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- PCS Notice - Website Contract 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
79 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security
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- CPV Codes
73000000 - Research and development services and related consultancy services
73110000 - Research services
73210000 - Research consultancy services
79310000 - Market research services
79311400 - Economic research services
79315000 - Social research services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £165,000 £100K-£500K
- Lots Value
- £165,000 £100K-£500K
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- Not specified
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 9 May 20259 months ago
- Submission Deadline
- 4 Jun 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
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- SCOTTISH ENTERPRISE
- Additional Buyers
- Contact Name
- Adam Cunningham, Kate Townsley
- Contact Email
- adam.cunningham@scotent.co.uk, kate.townsley@gov.scot
- Contact Phone
- +44 1414686024
Buyer Location
- Locality
- GLASGOW
- Postcode
- G2 6HQ
- Post Town
- Glasgow
- 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
- Sighthill/Gorgie
- Westminster Constituency
- Edinburgh South West
Further Information
Notice Documents
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https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/NoticeDownload/DownloadDocument.aspx?id=MAY529969&idx=1
9th May 2025 - Invitation to tender -
https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/NoticeDownload/DownloadDocument.aspx?id=MAY529969&idx=2
9th May 2025 - Appendix 2 - Tender response document -
https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/NoticeDownload/DownloadDocument.aspx?id=MAY529969&idx=3
9th May 2025 - Appendix 3 - monitoring form -
https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/NoticeDownload/DownloadDocument.aspx?id=MAY529969&idx=4
9th May 2025 - Climate change plan - template -
https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/NoticeDownload/DownloadDocument.aspx?id=MAY529969&idx=5
9th May 2025 - Appendix 1 - Cest outcome -
https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=MAY529969
P26-0002 - Scottish Enterprise are seeking to put in place a contract with a provider for an online research platform which will enable us to support the work we do on Scottish Enterprise's key projects as well as improvements to our products and service delivery. The contract will be for 1 year with the option to extend for a further 2 x 12 months if required.
Notice URLs
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
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