(NU/1745-9) Business survey for National Innovation Centre for Rural Enterprise 2023

Concepts

• business services
• newcastle
• nicre
• business survey
• nicre’s business engagement
• nicre’s business survey
• rural enterprise
• survey coverage
• circumstances of rural enterprises
• telephone survey of businesses

Location

North East England:

Description

One of NICRE’s key objectives is to connect with businesses in order to generate insight into the circumstances of rural enterprises. This business focussed objective is vital to providing an evidence base for policy and support services for rural enterprise, and also to informing NICRE’s business engagement and development plans. At the heart of this objective is NICRE’s business survey. NICRE has a requirement to conduct a telephone survey of businesses operating in three specific regions in the UK (the West-Midlands, South-West and North-East). The survey will focus on aspects of business resilience and planning for both internal and external threats. Interviews will last around 20 minutes and should be conducted with a member of the senior management team of each organisation. Survey coverage should be broadly representative of the business population and sufficient to allow for (sub-regional) spatial, sectoral and firm size analysis. We require that the survey include non-farming and farm businesses and we propose to over-sample farm businesses and those located in rural areas. We therefore envisage a sampling structure which covers size, sector and rural/urban location within each of the three target regions

Award Detail

Renewal Options

The contract may be extended for a further 6 month period from 1st December 2023 to the 31st May 2024. The University may extend the contract to cover additional regions to expand the survey coverage at the cost supplier by OMB Research of £64,819 excluding VAT per additional region (1,200 interviews)

Award Criteria

CPV Codes

• 79000000 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security
• 66170000 - Financial consultancy, financial transaction processing and clearing-house services
• 80530000 - Vocational training services
• 66121000 - Mergers and acquisition services
• 71241000 - Feasibility study, advisory service, analysis
• 72221000 - Business analysis consultancy services
• 66519600 - Actuarial services

Indicators

• Options are available.

Other Information

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