Contract award · 8 Aug 2025

Contract for the supply of preparing materials, data collection and analysis and participant recruitment and interviewing, to support the delivery of the New Medicines Service evaluation for NHS England and DHSC

NHS Midlands & Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit awarded “Contract for the supply of preparing materials…” to Ipsos Research Ltd for £29,000.

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Key facts

Supplier
Ipsos Research Ltd SME
Value
£29,000
Procedure
Call-off from a framework agreement
Sector
IT services · Project management consultancy services (CPV 72224000)
Timeline
  1. Contract date8 Aug 2025
  2. Published24 Apr 2026Published 259 days after the contract date

Description

psos will recruit and carry out semi-structured interviews with patients involved in the New Medicines Service (NMS) (the subject of this evaluation). A mix of patients who have both used the NMS, and those eligible who have declined, and also from a mix of geographies, will be recruited. These interviews will be conducted remotely and patients will be offered a financial incentive to support their participation (paid for as part of this agreement). Ipsos will analyse and write-up the findings from these interviews (to a content plan agreed with the Strategy Unit) to be included in a client report delivered in December 2025

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