Awarded without open competition
Awarded without open competition. The buyer went directly to one or a few suppliers instead of advertising the contract. Procurement rules allow this only in specific cases, such as extreme urgency, when only one supplier can do the work, or for call-offs from an existing framework.
Key facts
- Buyer
- Department of Health & Social Care · Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions
- Supplier
- Ipsos (Market Research) Ltd
- Value
- £819,592
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Business services · Market research services (CPV 79310000)
- Region
- London
- Official notice
- 066607-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date15 Jun 2026
- Published15 Jul 2026Published 30 days after the contract date
Description
DHSC are seeking to procure a contractor for waves 3-5 of the Adult Social Care Workforce Survey, to take place in (calendar years) 2026, 2027 and 2028. These waves will continue to gather vital perspectives from a fragmented workforce, generating nationally representative, worker-level findings not captured in other existing datasets. The surveys are expected to cover wellbeing, work-related quality of life, intention to leave, learning and development, bullying, violence and harassment, as well as potentially incorporating new questions based on Government priorities. The data will inform a range of current and future policy areas, strengthening the evidence base for reform, improving understanding of workforce pressures, and supporting the Government’s wider ambition of building towards a National Care Service. Waves 3-5 will also build on the first two waves to develop a time series, which will help the sector and Government to understand changes in workforce experience over time,…
About the supplier
Ipsos (Market Research) Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 00948470).