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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-h6vhtk-04a3f2

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## Summary

Sustrans is the buying organisation for "The Walking and Cycling Index Residents' Survey 2025", which falls under the industry category of Survey Services. The procurement process, initiated as an open procedure under the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 on a voluntary basis, reached the award stage with the contract being awarded on 27th February 2025. The project entails conducting a city-wide travel behaviour survey in up to 17 cities and areas across the UK, including Scotland. The survey will collect data on walking, wheeling, cycling behaviour, and attitudes from a representative sample of residents. Key activities for the contractor include designing methodology, conducting fieldwork, and analysing data. The contract, valued at £599,931, was awarded to the National Centre for Social Research.

This tender presents a significant opportunity for businesses specialising in survey services, particularly those with experience in large-scale data collection and behavioural research. Companies with robust project management skills, methodological expertise, and quality control measures will be well-suited for similar future procurement opportunities. With the project's focus on 17 cities across the UK, including high respondent targets, businesses can position themselves to grow by showcasing their capability to handle extensive, multi-location surveys and contributing valuable insights to transport and urban planning sectors.

## 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. Please see Invitation to Tender for further details.

### Lot Information

Lot 1

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. Each survey to secure at least 1,100 respondents. 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. Note we are procuring for a single supplier framework, and there may be variations in the number of cities/city regions. Please see Invitation to Tender for further details. Additional information: Note that this opportunity relates to work in 17 cities across the UK (including 8 cities in Scotland) and is not limited to Scotland. Note that the same opportunity will be published on Contracts Finder, Sell2Wales and Find a Tender.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/007764-2025 |
| Notice type | Tender Notice |
| Procurement type | Framework |
| Procurement category | Services |
| Procurement method | Open |
| Procurement method details | Open procedure |
| Tender suitability | Not specified |
| 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 | 27 Feb 2025 |
| Contract period | 6 Jan 2025 - 31 Oct 2025 |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | £700,000 |
| Lots value | £700,000 |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | £599,931 |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Complete |
| Lots status | Cancelled |
| Awards status | Active |
| Contracts status | Active |

## 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
- 79311200 - Survey conduction services

## Release History

- 4 Mar 2025 at 10:14 - Award - Award Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/007764-2025
- 6 Nov 2024 at 15:01 - TenderUpdate - Tender Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/035951-2024
- 30 Sep 2024 at 08:37 - Tender - Tender Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/031107-2024

## Notice URLs

- http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk
- http://www.sustrans.org.uk
- https://api.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/v1/Notice?id=ocds-r6ebe6-0000779005
- https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx?ID=AA19622
- https://www.sustrans.org.uk/

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