University of Essex: Understanding Society Survey Waves 9-11 (T602)

UK-Colchester: Survey conduction services.

Section I: Contracting Authority
   Title: UK-Colchester: Survey conduction services.
   I.1)Name, Addresses And Contact Point(s)
      University of Essex
      Central Procurement Unit (Estate Management Section), Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, CO4 3SQ, United Kingdom
      Tel. +44 1206873303, Email: procure@essex.ac.uk
   
   I.2)Type Of Purchasing Body
      Not Provided      
      
Section II: Object Of The Contract
   II.1)Description
      II.1.1)Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority/entity: Understanding Society Survey Waves 9-11 (T602)
      II.1.2)Short description of the contract or purchase:
      Survey conduction services. Market research services. Data collection and collation services. Survey design services. Data-processing services. Data management services. Feasibility study. Fieldwork for Understanding Society: The UK Household Longitudinal Study, including Waves 9-11 for the main sample and waves 10 and 11 for the Innovation Panel. Understanding Society is a large household panel survey, which requires continuous fieldwork through the year.

The main sample covers the UK and consists of individuals in around 25,000 households. Movers out of addresses are expected to be traced and interviewed at their new address within the UK, and movers into a household with an existing sample member temporarily become sample members. Within each household there is an enumeration instrument and a household questionnaire (around 15 minutes for the two), for each adult aged 16+ there is a 40 minute (median) interview, for 10-15 year olds there is a self-completion instrument. Understanding society is mixed-mode, so that adults in a large proportion of households (currently around 40% but with the expectation that this will increase) are initially invited to participate on-line, with non-respondents followed up by face-to-face interviews. The rest of the samples are issued directly to interviewers, with any non-respondents invited to take part online. There is also a telephone mop-up stage towards the end of the fieldwork. The sample for Understanding Society is allocated over 24 calendar months, although each case is in the field for up to 6 months. Each household is issued annually, so there is an over-lapping design; Wave 10 Year 1 will start at around the same time as Wave 9 Year 2. The main sample comprises of a general population sample, and ethnic minority boost (for whom the interview is around 45 minutes, median), and the former-BHPS.

The Innovation Panel is a sample of 1,500 households used by researchers as a test-bed for innovative ways of collecting data and for developing new areas of research. It helps develop leading edge survey methods and content that will ensure the ongoing success of Understanding Society and to generate important new knowledge. Experiments are carried out, and questions, procedures and methods are tested and used in a context similar to the main Understanding Society survey to make the test-bed as realistic as possible.

The key requirements for this project are that the fieldwork agency/agencies achieve high response rates, a high level of data quality and the ability to meet deadlines for fieldwork and data delivery.”
      
      II.1.3)Common procurement vocabulary:
      79311200 - Survey conduction services.
      
      79310000 - Market research services.
      
      72314000 - Data collection and collation services.
      
      79311100 - Survey design services.
      
      72310000 - Data-processing services.
      
      72322000 - Data management services.
      
      79314000 - Feasibility study.
      
      
Section IV: Procedure
   IV.1) Type of Procedure
      IV.1.1)Type of procedure (as stated in the original notice): Open       
   IV.2)Administrative Information
      IV.2.1)File reference number attributed by the contracting authority/entity: T602      
      IV.2.2)Notice reference for electronically submitted notice
         Original Notice sent via: OJS eSender

         Notice Reference: 2015 - 169542
      IV.2.3)Notice to which this publication refers: Not Provided      
      IV.2.4)Date of dispatch of the original Notice: 07/12/2015
      
Section VI: Complementary Information
   1: Complementary Information
      VI.1)This notice involves: Correction


      VI.3)Information to be corrected or added
         VI.3.1) Both
            Modification of original information submitted by the contracting authority.
            Publication on TED not compliant with original information provided by the contracting authority.
         VI.3.2) In the original Notice

         VI.3.3)Text to be corrected in the original notice:

         VI.3.4)Dates to be corrected in the original notice:
            Place of dates to be modified: Contract |Start            
            Instead of: 02/05/2016 Time: 12:00
            Read: 01/04/2016 Time: 12:00

         VI.3.5)Addresses and contact points to be corrected:
            Not Provided
            
         VI.3.6)Text to be added in the original notice: Not Provided
      VI.4)Other additional information:      
      To view this notice, please click here:
https://www.delta-esourcing.com/delta/viewNotice.html?noticeId=176676467
GO-2015127-PRO-7426656 TKR-2015127-PRO-7426655

      VI.5)Date of dispatch: 07/12/2015