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Tender description

Crown Commercial Service is setting up a Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) for a period of forty-eight (48) months and is inviting suppliers to submit a 'Request to Participate' for the provision of Research services. The four (4) distinct elements of these services include subject area(s), research methods, specific participant group and research location. If you are successfully appointed to the DPS following your request to participate, you will be invited by Customers to submit tenders for relevant service requirements through a call for competition. The initial deadline for requests to participate is 17:00 on 16.2.2018, however, the DPS remains open to any supplier to request to participate throughout its forty-eight (48) month duration. The DPS does not guarantee any minimum spend and there will be no form of exclusivity or volume guarantee under this DPS. Provision of research services for all UK CGD and WPS organisations. The core requirement of the research services shall include but not be limited to the one or a combination of services in each of the following four (4) distinct categories: - Subject area(s)/ subcategories - social, sector, health, finance, communications, business. - Research Methods/ subcategories - analysis, consultancy, evaluation, mystery shopping, qualitative (face-to-face), qualitative (online), qualitative (services), qualitative (specialist), quantitative (specialist), quantitative (telephone), quantitative. - Specific participant groups/ subcategories - economy, ethnicity, health, life stage, professions, social, social-economic. - Research location/ subcategories - UK, British overseas territories, Crown dependencies, Commonwealth, EU and international. - Security, - Vetting, - DPS Management and - Social Value. The comprehensive research service matrix can be located in the procurement bid pack.