--- title: "Consumer Personal Care Product Usage Survey Research" ocid: "ocds-b5fd17-f3510cb2-7379-4130-ad4b-b6d657a3cac9" canonical_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-b5fd17-f3510cb2-7379-4130-ad4b-b6d657a3cac9" markdown_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-f3510cb2-7379-4130-ad4b-b6d657a3cac9.md" json_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-f3510cb2-7379-4130-ad4b-b6d657a3cac9.json" source: "Contracts Finder" current_stage: "Planning" buyer: "DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY" published: "2023-06-27" --- # Consumer Personal Care Product Usage Survey Research Buyer: DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY Current stage: Planning OCID: ocds-b5fd17-f3510cb2-7379-4130-ad4b-b6d657a3cac9 [View canonical contract page](https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-b5fd17-f3510cb2-7379-4130-ad4b-b6d657a3cac9) [Download OCDS JSON](https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-f3510cb2-7379-4130-ad4b-b6d657a3cac9.json) ## Summary The Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy is planning a tender for a Consumer Personal Care Product Usage Survey Research. This project, conducted by the Office for Product Safety and Standards, aims to assess the usage of personal care products in the UK through an online consumer survey. The survey will generate valuable data on product usage patterns and demographic differences. The engagement end date for this tender is on the 5th of July 2023. This tender provides an opportunity for businesses involved in market and economic research, polling, statistics, survey analysis services, and customer services. Small and medium-sized enterprises, as well as voluntary, community, and social enterprises, are encouraged to participate. The planned pre-market engagement session on the 6th of July will allow prospective bidders to learn more about the project. Businesses interested in contributing to consumer protection and product safety in the UK should consider engaging with this tender. ## Notice The Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS) was created in January 2018 to deliver consumer protection and to support business confidence, productivity, and growth. OPSS is the national regulator for a wide range of non-food consumer products, including personal care and cosmetic products, and is committed to ensuring high levels of consumer protection and product safety in the UK. This project is being delivered as part of the OPSS Strategic Research Programme (SRP), which was launched in March 2018. This programme provides high quality strategic science-based research to strengthen the evidence base for Safety and Standards policy development, delivery and enforcement, giving businesses the confidence to innovate and protecting consumers from unsafe products. The wide range of evidence-based research supported by the SRP helps to address critical questions relating to current product safety, and/or issues that might arise due to future market developments. The aim of this project is to assess the usage of selected personal care products via an online consumer usage survey and generate an up to date and representative data set examining patterns of use for personal care products in the UK. This will also involve generating a data set examining the difference in use of personal care products between demographic groups. By undertaking the research, we would be beginning a process that will potentially allow OPSS, the Scientific Advisory Group on Chemical Safety for Non-Food and Non-Medicinal Consumer Products (SAG-CS) and industry to deliver more accurate chemical risk assessments by improving the accuracy of the exposure assessments used. By measuring demographic characteristics against personal care product usage, it will provide OPSS with a clearer picture of the influence demographic characteristics have on personal care product usage. Diversity and inclusion is core to all the actions we take as regulators. By undertaking this research, it will allow OPSS to better understand consumer behaviour regarding personal care product usage across different groups of consumers and we can consider this evidence in future actions we take on personal care product safety (policy development, campaigns etc). It will also help us to fulfil our mission of protecting people and places through more inclusive assessment of exposure. We would like to invite prospective bidders to attend a pre-market engagement session on 6th July at 12.30 via MS Teams. Should you wish to attend, please register your interest using the contact details below. Additional information: The mission of the Office for Product Safety & Standards (OPSS) is to be a trusted product regulator for the UK. This means protecting people and places, enabling business to thrive and empowering consumers to make good choices. We will be a leader of good regulatory practice and a champion of local regulation. OPSS is: - the national regulator for all consumer products, except for vehicles, medicines and food. - the national regulator for legal metrology, ensuring weighing and measuring instruments are accurate and reliable. Further information about OPSS can be found via the link provided. ## Key Details | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication source | Contracts Finder | | Latest notice | https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/26ccb2fa-f40f-4107-9912-b9cde9ee908f | | Notice type | Market Engagement Notice | | Procurement type | Standard | | Procurement category | Not specified | | Procurement method | Not Specified | | Procurement method details | Not specified | | Tender suitability | SME, VCSE | | Awardee scale | Not specified | | All stages | Planning | ## Dates | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication date | 27 Jun 2023 | | Submission deadline | Not specified | | Future notice date | 5 Jul 2023 | | Award date | Not specified | | Contract period | Not specified | | Recurrence | Not specified | ## Values | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender value | Not specified | | Lots value | Not specified | | Awards value | Not specified | | Contracts value | Not specified | ## Status | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender status | Planning | | Lots status | Not specified | | Awards status | Not specified | | Contracts status | Not specified | ## Buyer | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Main buyer | DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY | | Locality | BIRMINGHAM | | Post town | Birmingham | | Postcode | B4 6BS | | Country | England | | ITL 1 | TLG West Midlands (England) | | ITL 2 | TLG3 West Midlands | | ITL 3 | TLG31 Birmingham | | Local authority | Birmingham | | Electoral ward | Ladywood | | Westminster constituency | Birmingham Ladywood | | Delivery location | Not specified | ## CPV Codes ### Divisions - 79 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security ### Codes - 79300000 - Market and economic research; polling and statistics - 79311300 - Survey analysis services - 79342300 - Customer services ## Release History - 27 Jun 2023 at 12:23 - Planning - Market Engagement Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/26ccb2fa-f40f-4107-9912-b9cde9ee908f - 23 Jun 2023 at 07:47 - Planning - Market Engagement Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/47568f65-58a3-4197-84d9-501d1aa48130 ## Documents - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/26ccb2fa-f40f-4107-9912-b9cde9ee908f 27th June 2023 - Early engagement notice on Contracts Finder - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/47568f65-58a3-4197-84d9-501d1aa48130 23rd June 2023 - Early engagement notice on Contracts Finder ## Notice URLs - https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/office-for-product-safety-and-standards ## Provenance This Markdown file is an alternate public rendering of the D3 Tenders contract record. 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