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title: "Scotland's Maternity Care Survey 2025"
ocid: "ocds-r6ebe6-0000794820"
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source: "Public Contracts Scotland"
current_stage: "Planning"
buyer: "SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT"
published: "2025-03-31"
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# Scotland's Maternity Care Survey 2025

Buyer: SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT  
Current stage: Planning  
OCID: ocds-r6ebe6-0000794820

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## Summary

The Scottish Government is initiating a procurement process for Scotland’s Maternity Care Survey 2025, aimed at gathering comprehensive data on NHS maternity care experiences from women. This planned contract will fall under the general public services category and involve survey fieldwork and data processing. The survey is part of the Care Experience Programme managed by Health and Social Care Analysis Division. Located in Edinburgh, the procurement stage is currently in planning, with the contract expected to start in June 2025. Key dates include the future notice date on 15th April 2025, with fieldwork concluding in October 2025.

This tender presents significant opportunities for businesses specialising in survey administration, data collection, and data processing. Companies with expertise in designing accessible online surveys, multilingual support, and handling large-scale mail-outs will find this contract particularly appealing. The requirement to print, post, and capture responses from approximately 7,000 participants ensures substantial engagement and operational activity, fostering business growth in these sectors. The contract’s value of £50,000 GBP suggests a substantial investment, making it an attractive project for firms adept in delivering precise and reliable survey results.

## Notice

The Scottish Government has a requirement to place a contract with an external service provider for the provision of Scotland's Maternity Care Survey 2025. The scope of the contract will be to undertake the survey fieldwork and the transfer of a clean data set. The survey is being undertaken as part of the Scottish Government's Care Experience Programme and will be managed by Health and Social Care Analysis Division in the Scottish Government.

### Lot Information

Lot 1

The Scottish Government has a requirement to place a contract with an external service provider for the provision of the Scotland's Maternity Care Survey 2025. The Maternity Care Survey asks women about their most recent NHS maternity care experience. It covers the maternity care journey from antenatal care through to postnatal care at home after the birth, including neonatal care. To date, there have been three iterations of the survey that were carried out in 2013, 2015 and 2018. The Scottish Government intends to recommission the Maternity Care Survey to run in 2025 subject to approval from the Public Benefit and Privacy Panel (PBPP). The survey is designed to provide national and local results, including for use by NHS Boards and individual hospitals. The survey is administered by post but sampled individuals are able to complete the survey by post, online or via a telephone helpline. The 2025 survey content has been reviewed to ensure that the survey questions are still relevant and meet user needs. Changes have been made to remove and revise questions used in the 2018 survey, and to add new questions. The overall length of the survey will be comparable to the 2018 survey (no more than 12 printed pages), with the majority of questions closed questions. The scope of the contract will be to undertake the survey fieldwork and the transfer of a clean dataset to the Scottish Government. The initial survey pack will include a letter with QR code providing a link to the online survey and an information leaflet in a range of languages. The initial survey pack is followed up around three weeks later by a second mail out to those who have not responded, consisting of a reminder letter and an information sheet on past results and the language line. A second reminder letter alongside an information sheet and a paper version of the questionnaire will be sent to those who have not responded around three weeks later. The survey contractor will receive mailing lists from Public Health Scotland. The survey contractor will be required to print and post the survey packs to around 7,000 people in July 2025. The survey will be sent to women aged 17 and over who have given birth in Scotland during February or March 2025. Fieldwork will end in October 2025. We anticipate between 2,000 and 3,000 surveys being completed. The survey contractor will be required to scan and capture the completed questionnaires, and carry out agreed validation checks on the data before securely transmitting a clean data set to the Scottish Government. There is no in-house facility to administer such a large volume of survey responses. In order to encourage online completion of the survey, the survey contractor will be required to setup an accessible online version of the survey and a telephone helpline. The survey contractor will required to facilitate the completion of the survey in a range of different languages via the telephone helpline. Tenderers for this contract will also be asked to cost for the provision of translated versions of the online survey in key languages. Invitation to Tender documentation is expected to be issued mid April 2025, with an estimated contract start date of June 2025. The contract is expected to be for a period of 6 months.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Public Contracts Scotland |
| Latest notice | https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=MAR527206 |
| Notice type | PCS Notice - Website Prior Information Notice |
| Procurement type | Standard |
| Procurement category | Services |
| Procurement method | Not Specified |
| Procurement method details | Not specified |
| Tender suitability | Not specified |
| Awardee scale | Not specified |
| All stages | Planning |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 31 Mar 2025 |
| Submission deadline | Not specified |
| Future notice date | 15 Apr 2025 |
| Award date | Not specified |
| Contract period | Not specified |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | £50,000 |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | Not specified |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Planned |
| Lots status | Planned |
| Awards status | Not specified |
| Contracts status | Not specified |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT |
| Locality | EDINBURGH |
| Post town | Edinburgh |
| Postcode | EH6 6QQ |
| Country | Scotland |
| ITL 1 | TLM Scotland |
| ITL 2 | TLM1 East Central Scotland |
| ITL 3 | TLM13 City of Edinburgh |
| Local authority | City of Edinburgh |
| Electoral ward | Leith |
| Westminster constituency | Edinburgh North and Leith |
| Delivery location | TLM Scotland |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 72 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
- 79 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security

### Codes

- 72300000 - Data services
- 72310000 - Data-processing services
- 72314000 - Data collection and collation services
- 79311000 - Survey services
- 79311200 - Survey conduction services
- 79315000 - Social research services

## Release History

- 31 Mar 2025 at 00:00 - Planning - PCS Notice - Website Prior Information Notice - https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=MAR527206

## Documents

- https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=MAR527206
  Scotland's Maternity Care Survey 2025 - The Scottish Government has a requirement to place a contract with an external service provider for the provision of Scotland's Maternity Care Survey 2025. The scope of the contract will be to undertake the survey fieldwork and the transfer of a clean data set. The survey is being undertaken as part of the Scottish Government's Care Experience Programme and will be managed by Health and Social Care Analysis Division in the Scottish Government.

## Notice URLs

- http://
- http://www.scotland.gov.uk
- https://api.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/v1/Notice?id=ocds-r6ebe6-0000794820
- https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=794820

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