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Consumer Council for Northern Ireland

ID 6207077 - DFE - The Consumer Council - Market Research

Business ServicesCPV 73300000
Value£2.0m
Deadline27 Jul 2026
Published25 Jun 2026
RegionNationwide
Timeline
Published 25 Jun 20263 days leftCloses 27 Jul 2026
Who to contact
ssdadmin.cpd@finance-ni.gov.uk

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

How to submit
Open the submissions portal

Tenders must be submitted electronically via the relevant Call for Tender (CfT) opportunity on eTendersNI, website details immediately below. Paper submissions will not be accepted or considered and will be rejected by the Contracting Authority / Buyer. The tender documents are available with unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge, at: URL https://etendersni.gov.uk/epps

The submission route named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£2.0mtotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£2.2m

This is a large award for Research & Development — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 20,405 valued Research & Development tenders in our corpus.

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The brief

The Consumer Council is seeking to appoint a market research Supplier who can deliver insight on behalf of the Consumer Council that fully aligns to the organisation’s statutory powers and objectives regarding understanding consumers and undertaking best practice research.

The contract period will be for an initial period of one year with two options to extend for any period, up to and including, twelve months each, starting from the award of the contract.

Suppliers should refer to the Specification Schedule for full detail on the requirements of this contract.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

The Consumer Council is seeking to appoint

The Consumer Council is seeking to appoint a market research Supplier who can deliver insight on behalf of the Consumer Council that fully aligns to the organisation’s statutory powers and objectives regarding understanding consumers and undertaking best practice research.

02

Suppliers should refer to the Specification Schedule

Suppliers should refer to the Specification Schedule for full detail on the requirements of this contract.

Derived from the notice text — always confirm against the original documents.

What it takes to bid this

2540 daysof bid-team effort
£17.1k£27.4kat typical UK bid-team rates
Compressed window — start the same week

Typical UK bid effort for the £1m–£10m band — an estimate, not a quote.

Qualify & bid/no-bid ~10% · SQ / PQQ ~20% · Written response ~55% · Review & presentation ~15%

Typical for this category — confirm against the ITT pack

  • Show at bidComparable references / case studies
  • Hold at bidFinancial standing (accounts, often ~2× contract value turnover)
  • Hold at bidInsurance cover (PL / EL, often PI)
  • Show at bidSocial value commitments

Hold at bid = pass/fail conditions of participation. Show at bid = scored in the quality response. Plan for delivery = contract obligations from day one.

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06bd34
Stage
tender · Open
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
059900-2026
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