The Food and You Survey – Waves 4-6 Fieldwork and Reporting

Tender description

The Food Standards Agency is an independent government department responsible for food safety and hygiene in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. As part of its responsibility to protect consumers, the Agency aims to better understand the behaviour, attitudes and knowledge of consumers in relation to food and food safety. As part of this aim, the FSA commissions Food and You, a random probability survey of households across the UK that has been run biennially since the first wave in 2010, with waves two and three completed in 2012 and 2014. The Agency is now looking to commission fieldwork and reporting for a further three waves of the survey, to continue building a robust time series of information for analysis against a baseline from previous waves. This will enable the Agency to capture changes over time and provide an evidence base against which the Agency can monitor delivery of its Strategy and develop specific policy initiatives. The survey will form an important element in ‘Gathering and using science, evidence and information’, which is a key activity in the FSA’s new Strategic Plan 2015-2020, and will deliver cross-cutting evidence to help the Agency in working towards a range of strategic outcomes.