Awarded contract

Council Tax Focus Groups

Details

Buyer: Welsh Government
Supplier(s): Strategic Telemarketing
Value: £56,272
Topic: Research and development services and related consultancy services
Published: 8 July 2025
Source: uk:sell2wales

Tender description

This Council Tax Focus Group tender covered the procurement and project management of a research project to explore and understand the impact of council tax on different population groups. The awarded research contractor will undertake a series of focus groups and interviews with individuals and community/umbrella organisations to provide insight into budget management, council tax support and lived experience with council tax, identifying both common barriers and examples of best practice, across the different groups. The different population groups will need to make up the sample include the following demographic groups:- Low-income households, including those on the edge of the income thresholds;- Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic communities; and- Disabled people and households receiving disability benefits.

Timeline

Completed: Award date1 July 2025
Completed: Award published8 July 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

Decision makers

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