Awarded contract

National Survey for Wales, 2026-27 to 2031/2033

Details

Buyer: Welsh Government
Supplier(s): Natcen
Value: £12,487,477
Topic: Research and development services and related consultancy services
Published: 6 May 2025
Source: uk:sell2wales

Tender description

Under the contract, the Contractor will conduct fieldwork for the National Survey from March 2026 until March 2031 (with the option to extend fieldwork to March 2032 or March 2033), and to supply the resulting annual data files to the Client along with technical documentation. The proposed survey will cover a wide range of topics, gathering data from a random sample of adults across Wales, and will be online-first (with an alternative mode available). Lot 1: The Welsh Government intends to procure a new contract to deliver the National Survey for Wales, using an online-first approach for survey responses. The requirement is to carry out a cross-sectional continuous annual survey, lasting 30 minutes on average, of a random sample of people in Wales living in private households.. As there are additional options permissible within the tender the total value of the contract could be higher than the stipulated award price but the ceiling value over the maximum duration of the contract will be up to 21,450,000 GBP.

Timeline

Completed: Award date24 April 2025
Completed: Award published6 May 2025
Current notice

About the buyer

The Welsh Government is the devolved government for Wales and buys as a central government body through its Corporate Procurement Services team. That team advises departments on procurement and supports larger tenders. Commercial Procurement ICT handles digital contracts and lets ICT frameworks for the Welsh public sector. Welsh Government Commercial Delivery, formerly the National Procurement Service, builds national frameworks with councils and the Welsh NHS. They are listed on the Wales Collaborative Procurement Hub on Sell2Wales. Welsh contracting authorities' notices appear on Sell2Wales and the Central Digital Platform, with pipelines of larger future contracts.

Procurement spend from central entities makes up 66% of overall UK public spend.

Over the past 5 years, most of the Welsh Government's contract awards have been in business services, research and development and architectural and engineering services.

Relevant CPV codes

73000000 · Research and development services and related consultancy services
73100000 · Research and experimental development services
73110000 · Research services
73300000 · Design and execution of research and development
79310000 · Market research services
79311000 · Survey services
79311210 · Telephone survey services
79315000 · Social research services
79342310 · Customer survey services
79342311 · Customer satisfaction survey

Decision makers

Connect with the people behind this procurement.

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Head of Procurement	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@welsh-government.gov
Commercial Director	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@welsh-government.gov
Procurement Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@welsh-government.gov
Category Lead	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@welsh-government.gov
Senior Buyer	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@welsh-government.gov
Contracts Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@welsh-government.gov