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Awarded · ResultStage · contract

Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation (Ofqual)

Perception wave surveys

Business ServicesCPV 79311000 79311300
Value£332k
Awarded1 Jan 2021
Published3 Nov 2021
RegionWest Midlands
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£332ktotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£1.6m

This is a large award for Business Services — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 57,319 valued Business Services tenders in our corpus.

The brief

Survey 1, General Qualifications perception survey: To deliver the next waves of our Annual GQ Perceptions Survey, which focuses on perceptions of GCSEs and A Levels, as well as other qualifications in England.

The supplier will be required to distribute the survey, gather evidence from a representative sample of stakeholders, analyse the data and present the findings in a report that will be published, by Ofqual, as part of our Official Statistics.

The contract will involve a survey of employers, learners and training providers and colleges ('stakeholders'), with a draft report due in January 2022 and a final report due in March 2022.

2.

Survey 2, Perceptions Survey of vocational and technical qualifications: To deliver the next waves of our Annual VTQ Perceptions Survey, which focuses on Functional Skills qualifications and end-point assessments in apprenticeships, T Levels and other VTQs.

This survey is similar in purpose and design to survey 1.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

Survey 1, General Qualifications perception survey:

Survey 1, General Qualifications perception survey: To deliver the next waves of our Annual.

02

The supplier will be required to distribute

The supplier will be required to distribute the survey, gather evidence.

03

Survey 2, Perceptions Survey of vocational

Survey 2, Perceptions Survey of vocational and technical qualifications: To deliver the next.

Sentences from the notice that state an obligation, surfaced automatically and shown in the order they appear. Not an exhaustive list — always confirm against the tender documents.

The gates

What this notice demands of you

2 named, none in explicit obligation language. Each one is quoted from the notice.

ApprenticeshipsPolicies & commitments
and end-point assessments in apprenticeships, T Levels and other VTQs.
Ofqual recognitionRegulator registrations
report that will be published, by Ofqual, as part of our Official Statistics.

Matched against the notice text, so this is a floor — the tender pack will demand things the notice never mentions. “Says must” means the quoted sentence itself used obligation language; anything ambiguous is left as a mention.

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