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title: "Understanding Business Adaptations and Opportunities Realisation for Defra Sector Businesses in a Changing Economic Climate"
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# Understanding Business Adaptations and Opportunities Realisation for Defra Sector Businesses in a Changing Economic Climate

Buyer: DEFRA  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-b5fd17-5fe9c062-10ed-4d0e-ab87-0a396e050d32

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## Summary

The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) has awarded a contract for a social research services project titled "Understanding Business Adaptations and Opportunities Realisation for Defra Sector Businesses in a Changing Economic Climate." The tender, initiated as a competitive bid, aims to investigate how businesses in Defra sectors are adapting to recent economic changes, including the pandemic, EU Exit, and energy crisis. This project involves a survey of 2,500 businesses and 20 follow-up interviews, focusing on businesses in England, Wales, and Scotland. The contract has a total value of £234,350 and a tender period ending on January 13, 2023, with the contract duration spanning from March 1, 2023, to December 1, 2023.

This research tender by Defra presents opportunities for businesses to gain insights into the current trading conditions, adaptation plans, and growth opportunities in Defra sectors. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and voluntary, community, and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations are well-suited to compete for this tender. Businesses capable of conducting comprehensive social research, including quantitative and qualitative analysis, and having experience in engaging with diverse business samples across different regions would be highly competitive in securing this contract.

## Notice

Summary The Authority would like to understand the circumstances in which businesses in its sectors are operating, and making plans for the future, following recent changes in the economic climate. These changes include influences from the pandemic, EU Exit, the energy crisis, changing supply chain challenges, and in response to new initiatives e.g. the Government Growth Plan. This research will provide insights into the extent to which businesses are planning for short and long-term adaptation in light of these events, including the barriers to making adaptations and how new potential opportunities can be maximised. It is anticipated that the research will include both quantitative and qualitative methods (a survey of 2,500 businesses, 20 follow up interviews) and cover businesses based in England, Wales, and Scotland, including a variety of sample quotas (sector, region, business size, trading status). The Authority would welcome Tenderers to propose alternate quantitative and qualitative approaches with a clear and strong rationale for how the chosen approach would meet the Authority's overall aims. Considerations should be given to the possible sensitive nature of the research, strong relationships maintained throughout, and research outputs fed back to participants. The aims of this research project are to understand: * The current trading conditions for businesses in Defra sectors * The extent to which businesses are making adaptation plans, following changes in the economic climate, with influences including the pandemic, EU exit, the energy crisis, changing supply chain challenges, and in response to new initiatives e.g. the Government Growth Plan * To what extent businesses see new opportunities, following changes in the economic climate, with influences including the pandemic, EU exit, the energy crisis, changing supply chain challenges, and in response to new initiatives e.g. the Government Growth Plan * To what extent businesses are able to maximise opportunities for growth. Background to the Requirement Following recent changes in the economic climate, including influences such as the pandemic, EU-exit, the energy crisis, changing supply chain challenges, and in light of the Government's Growth Plan and Levelling Up , the Authority wants to understand the current status of its sectors and whether businesses are making adaptation plans, as well as the opportunities sectors perceive for the future. This research will: o inform Defra, Scottish Government and Welsh Government how Defra sector businesses are adapting in light of recent changes in the economic climate, and how government can support growth across these sectors; o provide insight into how different types of businesses across these sectors perceive, and are responding to, new international trading conditions; and o support the development of monitoring and evaluation of international trade in relation to Defra sectors.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Contracts Finder |
| Latest notice | https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/c72b1377-cf9f-48bb-ba21-f5a8181b5b0a |
| Notice type | Award Notice |
| Procurement type | Standard |
| Procurement category | Services |
| Procurement method | Not Specified |
| Procurement method details | Other - |
| Tender suitability | SME, VCSE |
| Awardee scale | Large |
| All stages | Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 4 May 2023 |
| Submission deadline | 13 Jan 2023 |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | 29 Mar 2023 |
| Contract period | 1 Mar 2023 - 1 Dec 2023 |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | £234,350 |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | £234,350 |
| Contracts value | Not specified |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Complete |
| Lots status | Not specified |
| Awards status | Active |
| Contracts status | Not specified |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | DEFRA |
| Locality | LONDON |
| Post town | South West London |
| Postcode | SW1P 3JR |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLI London |
| ITL 2 | TLI3 Inner London - West |
| ITL 3 | TLI35 Westminster and City of London |
| Local authority | Westminster |
| Electoral ward | St James's |
| Westminster constituency | Cities of London and Westminster |
| Delivery location | Not specified |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 1 |
| Supplier names | IPSOS |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

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

### Codes

- 79315000 - Social research services

## Release History

- 4 May 2023 at 11:56 - Award - Award Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/c72b1377-cf9f-48bb-ba21-f5a8181b5b0a

## Documents

- https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/c72b1377-cf9f-48bb-ba21-f5a8181b5b0a
  4th May 2023 - Awarded contract notice on Contracts Finder
- https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/258627e8-3039-4986-b596-0976b2bff0a9
  Contract C5366- Buss. Adaptation Economic Climate Research Ts & Cs_Redacted

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