Survey services

Tender description

Survey design, implementation and analysis. Background. 1. The Army has been conducting Continuous Attitude Surveys (CAS) for over 20 years. Their aim is to determine the attitudes of Serving Personnel and their families in a number of areas with a view to providing scientifically robust evidence to guide those responsible for forming and implementing Army policy. Occupational Psychologists within Directorate of Personnel Capability (DPersCap) undertake the surveys on behalf of the Army. All 3 CAS surveys are tri-Service and this contract is to assist in the delivery of the Army only element. In addition, these surveys are Official Statistics and any reporting needs to be within the code of best practice for Government Statistical Service. This contract is to assist DPersCap to conduct research on behalf of the Army and to allow for high quality exploitable evidence to be produced. It is necessary to have an extra-mural organisation under contract to conduct certain aspects of this work. 2. DPersCap requires extra-mural specialist support to conduct and fulfil all requirements listed below for 1 year with the additional requirement of allowing yearly contract reviews with the potential to extend for a maximum of a 3 year extension after the initial first year, totalling a maximum of 4 years. Requirement. Internal Army (self-generated) Surveys. 3. A provision is to be made to allow additional surveys to be generated under direction from DPersCap Staff. These surveys are to be administered on an ongoing basis as and when required, and are to be administered via a paper based/postal, web-based questionnaire or by other means available to the contractor i.e. app based survey as required. Surveys will be of various lengths and themes and should be made available via a secure and easy accessible system to as many Service Personnel and families as possible for completion. Volunteer Reserves Continuous Attitude Survey. 4. The survey is to be administered to a sample of up to 12 000 Army Reservists to gain their views and attitudes towards life in the Reserves Force. The survey is to be administered annually, via a paper-based/postal questionnaire, which is returned by post directly to the contractor. If requested by DPersCap, it is also to be made accessible via a web-based questionnaire to be developed by the contractor. Families Continuous Attitude Survey (FAMcas). 5. The survey is to be administered to a representative sample of Spouses/Civil Partners of serving personnel to gather attitudes and opinions regarding their experience of Service life. The survey is to be administered annually to approximately 12 000 Service personnel for onward dissemination to their spouses. The survey is to be administered via a paper based/postal questionnaire which is returned by post directly to the contractor. If requested by DPersCap, it is also to be made accessible via a web-based questionnaire. Armed Forces Continuous Attitude Survey (AFcas). 6. The survey is to be administered by Defence Statistics. The requirement is for a contractor to analyse the findings from an SPSS database of coded results, which will be provided. There is a requirement for an annual report to be produced. Sexual Harassment Survey. 8. The survey is to be administered to a representative sample of Service Personnel, both male and female to gather attitudes, opinions and any experience of sexual harassment in the Army. The survey is to be administered annually to approximately 25 000 Service Personnel. The survey is to be administered via a paper based/postal questionnaire, which is returned by post directly to the contractor. If requested by DPersCap, it is to be made accessible via a web-based questionnaire. Full details are found in the attached documentation.