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title: "The Walking and Cycling Index Residents' Survey 2025"
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# The Walking and Cycling Index Residents' Survey 2025

Buyer: SUSTRANS  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-b5fd17-ccd3925b-a589-4a29-b488-f948ed8d7e44

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## Summary

Sustrans, based in Bristol, England, has concluded the award stage of the procurement process for conducting the Walking and Cycling Index Residents' Survey 2025. Sustrans seeks a contractor to conduct a comprehensive survey on travel behaviours, focusing on walking, wheeling, and cycling across 17 UK cities and regions. The chosen method for this procurement was an open procedure, catering to small and medium-sized enterprises and voluntary, community and social enterprises. The total contract value is capped at £700,000, with the survey period running from 6th January 2025 to 31st October 2025. All bids were required by 18th November 2024, with the final award being made on 9th December 2024.

The awarded contract presents significant growth opportunities for businesses specialising in survey services and social research. Large-scale data collection and analysis firms, particularly those experienced in behavioural research and survey methodologies, would find this tender highly beneficial. With Sustrans looking to integrate the survey outcomes with their existing datasets, businesses with robust data analysis capabilities will be well-suited to maximise this opportunity. The contract being a single supplier framework also highlights an excellent chance for businesses to establish or enhance their portfolio with a reputable organization like Sustrans.

## Notice

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. Surveys to take place in 17 cities/city regions of the UK. Note that this opportunity relates to work in 17 cities and areas across the UK. Each survey to secure at least 1,100 respondents. Please see Invitation to Tender for further details. Note we are procuring for a single supplier framework, and there may be variations in the number of cities/city regions. Total value maximum of PS700,000 for the core costs of the contract, based on the number of cities above. Note that the same opportunity will be published on Public Contracts Scotland, Sell2Wales and Find a Tender. Full instructions on how the bids can be submitted can be seen in the Invitation to Tender document.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Contracts Finder |
| Latest notice | https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/a9d56a0a-a4d9-4101-98b5-5d599f42f746 |
| Notice type | Award Notice |
| Procurement type | Standard |
| Procurement category | Services |
| Procurement method | Open |
| Procurement method details | Open procedure (above threshold) |
| Tender suitability | SME, VCSE |
| Awardee scale | Large |
| All stages | Tender, Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 4 Mar 2025 |
| Submission deadline | 18 Nov 2024 |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | 9 Dec 2024 |
| Contract period | 27 Feb 2025 - 31 Oct 2025 |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | £700,000 |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | £599,931 |
| 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 | SUSTRANS |
| Locality | BRISTOL |
| Post town | Bristol |
| Postcode | BS1 5DD |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLK South West (England) |
| ITL 2 | TLK5 West of England |
| ITL 3 | TLK51 Bristol, City of |
| Local authority | Bristol, City of |
| Electoral ward | Hotwells and Harbourside |
| Westminster constituency | Bristol Central |
| Delivery location | Not specified |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 1 |
| Supplier names | NATIONAL CENTRE FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

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

### Codes

- 79311000 - Survey services
- 79315000 - Social research services

## Release History

- 4 Mar 2025 at 10:04 - Award - Award Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/a9d56a0a-a4d9-4101-98b5-5d599f42f746
- 30 Sep 2024 at 08:53 - Tender - Tender Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/916da4ad-57f1-4ea8-8398-eb346724b168

## Documents

- https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/a9d56a0a-a4d9-4101-98b5-5d599f42f746
  4th March 2025 - Awarded contract notice on Contracts Finder
- https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/916da4ad-57f1-4ea8-8398-eb346724b168
  30th September 2024 - Opportunity notice on Contracts Finder
- https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/5064d05a-cd6e-4dee-8110-c6e627ecbfd4
  Walking and Cycling Index Invitation to Tender 2025
- https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/315d042c-3938-41a3-a18e-bbe40273fcbb
  Standard Selection Questionnaire - Walking and Cycling Index 2025
- https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/ff78b937-3ef5-42ab-941b-5c70bd6e5ad3
  Data Protection Due Diligence Questionnaire
- https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/4fbad5ae-a00f-47b4-ac3d-e8a456e6b097
  Price Matrix 2025 template
- https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/3d9d41ff-b21e-4274-ace1-732c9703160d
  Sample of contract Purchase of Behaviour and Attitude Survey Services-Walking and Cycling Index 2025

## Notice URLs

- http://www.sustrans.org.uk

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