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
- NHS Humber & North Yorkshire ICB · Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions
- Supplier
- NEMS Market Research Limited SME
- Value
- £56,000
- Procedure
- Single tender action (below threshold)
- Sector
- Business services · Social research services (CPV 79315000)
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber
- Official notice
- View on Contracts Finder
- Timeline
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- Contract date14 Feb 2025
- Published30 Jun 2025Published 136 days after the contract date
Description
The Illicit Tobacco Survey service provision will design and implement a survey to provide a robust assessment of the illicit tobacco market in Humber and North Yorkshire, sampling in all 6 'Place' areas. The Supplier will: • Undertake fieldwork sample, primarily with young adults (16+), and adults (18+), both smokers and non-smokers • Undertake fieldwork sample of young people aged 14 and 15. • The methods to be used in the study will be sound, scientifically robust and able to provide data that will meet the ICB objectives, providing meaningful benchmark data, including but not limited to: o Volume of legal and illegal tobacco consumed; o Illicit share of the tobacco market in Humber and North Yorkshire; o Sources of illicit tobacco purchases; o Type of illegal tobacco bought; o Proportion of smokers buying illicit tobacco; o Segmentation of the illicit tobacco market by gender, key socio-economic groups, age and demographics and any meaningful shifts in the market; o Attitude deter…
About the supplier
NEMS Market Research Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 03938078).