Research consultancy services

Tender description

1) Executive summary 1.1) The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has a strategic requirement to monitor public attitudes to the environment over time, providing insight about changes in public attitudes across its broad remit and in response to the evolving context of the UK’s relationship with the EU. The survey on attitudes to the environment was commissioned in 2018 and an initial survey wave was delivered in 2019, providing baseline data. The authority is now seeking to award a contract for future delivery of this survey, including both data collection of annual survey waves and bringing to bear expertise in questionnaire adaptation and ongoing research design. The authority is interested in best practice approaches to data collection and analysis, which will offer value for money and effective use of collected insights to maximise their impact and utility for policy development and delivery. 1) Executive summary 1.1) The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has a strategic requirement to monitor public attitudes to the environment over time, providing insight about changes in public attitudes across its broad remit and in response to the evolving context of the UK’s relationship with the EU. The survey on attitudes to the environment was commissioned in 2018 and an initial survey wave was delivered in 2019, providing baseline data. The authority is now seeking to award a contract for future delivery of this survey, including both data collection of annual survey waves and bringing to bear expertise in questionnaire adaptation and ongoing research design. The authority is interested in best practice approaches to data collection and analysis, which will offer value for money and effective use of collected insights to maximise their impact and utility for policy development and delivery.