Contract award notice
Results of the procurement procedure
Section I: Contracting
entity
I.1) Name and addresses
Sustrans
01797726
2 Cathedral Square, College Green
Bristol
BS1 5DD
UK
Contact person: Dunja Reed
Telephone: +44 1179268893
E-mail: monitoring@sustrans.org.uk
NUTS: UK
Internet address(es)
Main address: http://www.sustrans.org.uk
Address of the buyer profile: https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx?ID=AA19622
I.2) Joint procurement
The contract is awarded by a central purchasing body
I.4) Type of the contracting authority
Other: Registered Charity
I.5) Main activity
Other: Sustainable Transport
Section II: Object
II.1) Scope of the procurement
II.1.1) Title
The Walking and Cycling Index Residents’ Survey 2025
Reference number: INDEX25
II.1.2) Main CPV code
79311000
II.1.3) Type of contract
Services
II.1.4) Short description
Sustrans wishes to commission a city-wide residents’ travel behaviour "push-to-online" survey in up to 17 cities and areas across the UK.
The survey will gather data about walking, wheeling and cycling and travel behaviour, satisfaction and attitudes about a range of issues related to walking, wheeling and cycling in their city among a representative sample of residents. The successful contractor will design a research methodology and questionnaire tools compatible with the previous methodology and questionnaire, conduct the survey fieldwork, clean and analyse the data and return specified outputs to Sustrans for further analysis and modelling.
Sustrans intends to commission for one iteration of fieldwork in 2025.
Please see Invitation to Tender for further details.
II.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots:
No
II.1.7) Total value of the procurement
Value excluding VAT:
599 931.00
GBP
II.2) Description
II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
79311200
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UK
Main site or place of performance:
17 cities/city regions of the UK, as detailed in the procurement documents
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
Sustrans wishes to commission a city-wide residents’ travel behaviour "push-to-online" survey in up to 17 cities and areas across the UK.
The survey will gather data about walking, wheeling and cycling and travel behaviour, satisfaction and attitudes about a range of issues related to walking, wheeling and cycling in their city among a representative sample of residents. Each survey to secure at least 1,100 respondents. The successful contractor will design a research methodology and questionnaire tools compatible with the previous methodology and questionnaire, conduct the survey fieldwork, clean and analyse the data and return specified outputs to Sustrans for further analysis and modelling.
Sustrans intends to commission for one iteration of fieldwork in 2025.
Note we are procuring for a single supplier framework, and there may be variations in the number of cities/city regions.
Please see Invitation to Tender for further details.
II.2.5) Award criteria
Quality criterion: Methodological merit
/ Weighting: 20
Quality criterion: Project Management
/ Weighting: 15
Quality criterion: Quality control
/ Weighting: 10
Quality criterion: Organisation, qualification and experience of staff assigned to performing the contract
/ Weighting: 5
Quality criterion: Social Value
/ Weighting: 10
Price
/ Weighting:
40
II.2.11) Information about options
Options:
No
II.2.13) Information about European Union funds
The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds:
No
II.2.14) Additional information
Note that this opportunity relates to work in 17 cities across the UK (including 8 cities in Scotland) and is not limited to Scotland.
Note that the same opportunity will be published on Contracts Finder, Sell2Wales and Find a Tender.
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1) Description
IV.1.1) Type of procedure
Open procedure
IV.1.8) Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement:
No
IV.2) Administrative information
IV.2.1) Previous publication concerning this procedure
Notice number in the OJ S:
2024/S 000-031107
Section V: Award of contract
Contract No: P15225
A contract/lot is awarded:
Yes
V.2 Award of contract
V.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract
27/02/2025
V.2.2) Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 2
Number of tenders received from SMEs: 0
Number of tenders received from tenderers from EU Member States: 0
Number of tenders received from tenderers from non-EU Member States: 2
Number of tenders received by electronic means: 2
The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators:
No
V.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
National Centre for Social Research
35 Northampton Square
London
EC1V 0AX
UK
NUTS: UKI
The contractor is an SME:
No
V.2.4) Information on value of the contract/lot (excluding VAT)
Total value of the contract/lot:
: 599 931.00
GBP
V.2.5) Information about subcontracting
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.3) Additional information
Sustrans is not currently considered to be a ‘contracting authority’ under The Public Contracts Regulations 2015. Sustrans has opted to
publish this notice on a voluntary basis and its intention is to comply voluntarily with the principles set out in the Public Contracts
Regulations 2015 in this procurement: however, this does not bind Sustrans contractually in relation to the process.
(SC Ref:792160)
VI.4) Procedures for review
VI.4.1) Review body
Sherriff Court
Edinburgh
UK
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice
04/03/2025