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Awarded · ResultStage · contract

Exeter City Council

PR 07 2026 Consultation and Engagement Research

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Value£175k
Awarded12 May 2026
Published23 Jul 2026
RegionSouth West
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£175ktotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£561k

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.

The brief

Exeter City Council is seeking a suitably experienced supplier to deliver a comprehensive Resident Survey and Budget Consultation Survey for 2026, alongside providing flexible, additional consultation and engagement support as required during the contract period.\r The core requirements include:\r \r Delivery of a representative Resident Survey (approx.

1,100 respondents) in line with LGA benchmarking guidance, using a mix of telephone and face-to-face methods to ensure inclusion of hard-to-reach groups.\r Delivery of a Budget Consultation Survey to capture residents' preferences for budget priorities, using a mix of telephone and online methods.\r Benchmarking of resident survey results against other councils and Exeter City Council's 2024 and 2025 surveys to identify trends and changes over time.\r Provision of additional consultation and engagement support on a flexible, call-off basis.

This may include focus groups, workshops, surveys, qualitative research, data analysis, and reporting to support discrete projects across the Council.\r \r The Council requires a supplier with proven experience in large-scale representative research, strong analytical and reporting capability, and robust project management to deliver work to agreed timescales and within budget.

The contract is designed to provide flexibility to respond to fluctuating consultation demand while maintaining high-quality engagement outputs.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

Exeter City Council is seeking a suitably

Exeter City Council is seeking a suitably experienced supplier to deliver a comprehensive Resident Survey and Budget Consultation Survey for 2026, alongside providing flexible, additional consultation and engagement support as required during the contract period.\r.

02

1,100 respondents) in line with LGA benchmarking

1,100 respondents) in line with LGA benchmarking guidance, using a mix of telephone and face-to-face methods to ensure inclusion of hard-to-reach groups.\r.

03

Provision of additional consultation and engagement support

Provision of additional consultation and engagement support on a flexible, call-off basis.

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This may include focus groups, workshops, surveys

This may include focus groups, workshops, surveys, qualitative research, data analysis, and reporting to support discrete projects across the Council.\r.

05

The Council requires a supplier with proven

The Council requires a supplier with proven experience in large-scale representative research, strong analytical and reporting capability, and robust project management to deliver work to agreed timescales and within budget.

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OCID
21b88f84-6356-46b9-b106-49b897568031
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
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Buyer ref
EXET002-DN813589-12884248
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